"Accountability"? Hahaha

This would be great if actually true:

• Anonymous said...

  I have heard very serious rumblings that the Feds are demanding accountability from the city and CPD for ACTUAL manpower numbers. Suddenly they are concerned the Dem convention could be shut down or overrun by swarms of nutbags funded by…the Dems. We have been begging for years for adequate manpower to simply protect our taxpayers and now they have realized it will be impossible to lockdown a secure facility let alone the city. Unless you call in an armed National Guard, borrow a projected 75,000 police from outside municipalities and give carte Blanche to arrest Anarchists the city will burn for a month starting with Republican Convention in Milwaukee. The Feds are already in panic mode and realize CPD is in worse shape than imagined and ISP is overseen by a Governor who’s family will fund and profit from the insanity for their own political and financial gain.

We've only been pointing out the manpower shortages for years now, the misappropriated and misspent money, the stink of corruption via the "meri-clout-orious" process of "who you know / who you blow."

We be greatly amused to see the chickens come home to roost.

Of course, we'll be gone by the time the convention rolls around, but we'll be laughing from a distance.

CTU Overreach

This has what to do with teaching?

• Leaked documents show the Chicago Teachers Union is making incredibly costly demands of Chicago Public Schools – and therefore of taxpayers – in its upcoming contract negotiations.

  In addition to $51,000 average teacher pay raises, 45 days off each school year and handing cash to asylum seekers, CTU also wants teachers to be able to obtain extended leaves from school to go work for its own purposes.

  First, it’s demanding leave time for teachers to go work for its non-profit, the CTU Foundation.

  It’s also demanding teachers be allowed to go on leave to take appointed offices, such as those given by Mayor Brandon Johnson, CTU’s former employee who it bankrolled into office. That creates a conflict of interest in certain situations, such as contract negotiations, when both sides of the bargaining table are CTU affiliates.

And while they wouldn't be paid, they'd accrue seniority.

But what is this "cash for asylum seekers" bull$hit? We don't recall electing any of these teachers to do what the City Council is supposed to be doing. Or what they're supposed to be putting a stop to.

How about maybe putting some actual goals in place that are in line with your jobs? Like getting Johnny to read at grade level, to do math at grade level, to perhaps function and behave within the law?

Smart Decision

Someone must have heard the rumors that we did about the Art Institute backing off of charges?

• Police cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park Tuesday morning. Campus police came in and dismantled the pro-Palestinian camp set up by students shortly before 5 a.m.

Note that these were campus police, not CPD.

The snowflakes were whining extensively:

• "It was traumatizing," said UChicago professor Uday Jain with Faculty For Justice In Palestine. "And it's a miracle that no one was injured. It's really a miracle given the level of chaos that the police were causing."

No mention by this particular Hamas-hole of the chaos being caused by outside agitators, their paid supporters, the useful idiots disrupting learning. Readers are aware that there are still over half-a-dozen American hostages being held? No one seems to be mentioning that at these "protests."

Conehead and Larritorious got some good advice on this one....and followed it, which is amazing:

• Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's office said in a statement that the Mayor's Office for Community Safety, Chicago Police Department and University of Chicago Police Department discussed a potential clearing of the encampment at 3 a.m. Tuesday.

  Johnson's office said UCPD asked Chicago police to participate, but CPD raised operational concerns and "expressed an unwillingness to participate in a pre-dawn clearing of the encampment."

  "UCPD ultimately decided to move forward with the removal independently. Mayor Johnson and the Johnson Administration continue to be committed to free speech and safety on all of Chicago's college campuses," the statement said.

  But speaking to the ABC7 I-Team, CPD Supt. Larry Snelling downplayed any disagreement. "They had a plan. They executed their plan. As the Chicago Police Department, if there had been help needed, we're always on standby," Snelling said.

At least one survey that we saw said between 70-and-80% of students want their campuses to be places of learning, not protesting. So this obviously artificial effort is falling flat, but Conehead has to be seen as playing nice because they're all coming back in August.

Recoup the Money (UPDATE)

So we've been seeing a bunch of comments about how the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is dropping or refusing to press charges for Criminal Trespass after CPD cleared the campus areas.

First up, do we have verification?

If SAIC is out of the process, then guess who is left holding the bag? There better be signed complaints on file or else it's the CPD and City of Chicago.

In the bad old days, the police were used as bouncers and strike breakers by the robber barons. Why pay for muscle when you can have the taxpayers foot the bill? 

That is pretty much what happened the other day at the Hamas-hole protest. If that's the case going forward, then Conehead better get the Finance Division to start tallying up manpower and equipment hours and charge the SAIC for the expenditure, because every minute spent there was a minute not spent somewhere else when crime and/or mayhem may have been happening. 

They do it for parades, special events, assorted call outs like train derailments - charging for the unforeseen expenditures so taxpayers aren't footing the bill. The City has even sued different companies to recoup money.

UPDATE: Verified:

• After a weekend pro-Palestinian demonstration at the Art Institute of Chicago ended with dozens of arrests, there is a new twist on Monday night.

  ABC7 has learned that the Art Institute is no longer pursuing criminal trespassing charges. However, there is some concern that the incident could be a precursor to what police might face with demonstrators during the Democratic National Convention.

So the CPD is definitely being used as "strike breakers." Time for (A) the City to charge the SAIC for the Officers and equipment used on scene and (B) for the FOP to demand "Rules of Engagement" moving forward so as not to jeopardize members with punitive damages from the City's incompetence.

Ten Shot Taser?

We qualified a while back because we were told it would cover our retirement credentials for a while.

Has everyone seen this ten shot taser? And does everyone realize what a bad idea this is?

We all know that the revised Use of Force rules pretty much deny you ever using a taser:

• can't use it on runners;
• can't use it on anyone who might fall;
• can't use it on pregnant women, children, elderly, mentally ill, handicapped people;
• can't use it on anyone actually facing you;
• it's an extensive list
  

So why carry it? Oh yeah, you're required to carry it, because you need to have too many decisions so that COPA and Crimesha and Force Review and IAD can all second guess your Use of Force decisions from the comfort of an armchair minutes, miles and days away from actually doing the job.

But now, they've come up with a taser that has ten separate darts to fire - one-at-a-time - in the extremely unlikely event that you'd ever run across a taser applicable situation.

Have you read the Use of Force Order regarding shooting a firearm? We aren't going to look up the exact wording, but:

• every single decision to pull the trigger for every single bullet MUST be justified afterwards.

So in the event you discharge your pistol:

• you shoot;
• you evaluate the result;
• you re-assess the situation;
• make a conscious and justifiable decision to shoot again

This is ridiculous and we've said so for years. Almost 100% of police shootings take place at ranges under ten feet....and they're over in four seconds or less. There isn't a person in the world who can run through that decision loop and survive unscathed.

You shoot like you train, and we don't even train that way. The Rangemaster in the booth always says, "Three shots in five seconds" or "Two shots, reload, two more shots in seven seconds," or some combination of the routine. You are (or will be) judged by the decision loop we posted, not the training regimen we do.

Now imagine a taser discharge:

• you shoot
• you evaluate the result....

Except there IS NO RESULT because a taser does not function with a single dart. There is no circuit. So now you need to fire a second time....under the same decision loop as a firearm discharge. After you've already fired and (if accurate) wounded someone with a projectile. 

It's will be evaluated as a completely separate Use of Force decision, made in tenths or hundredths of seconds. And if someone later decides the second dart is "excessive," guess who is going to lose their job and maybe go to prison, all while being sued? 

Is the FOP Safety Committee looking into this? Academy instructors? 

We also heard that the ATF has classified this taser as a "firearm" because it uses black powder to propel the dart. Has Legal Affairs chimed in on this, because you are now firing a "gun" at a subject. Plaintiff attorneys are going to crucify the Department.

Contrast and Compare

HeyJackass.com is the only place for reliable statistics....and things like this:

No one else in the media (or the Department) would come up with something like this.

So Conehead is winning the homicide race. No surprise there. But he's falling behind in the maimed category with 9.5 winning over the first nine months.

A slight edge in robberies, gives way to a tremendous lead in carjackings....and then cars stolen? Holy crap mayor Blowjob! Way to run the table!

Burglaries are a slight disappointment, but a lot of people (and folks) don't have anything worth stealing, given the economic state of the nation.

History Repeating

Friend of the blog Jack Dunphy with another great bit of writing:

• Have we learned nothing from the past? It’s not as though we need to explore antiquity for lessons in how to confront today’s issues. While such an exploration would no doubt be helpful, any effort in that direction is beyond – far, far beyond – the stunted intellectual capacities of our current crop of ruling elites, certainly to include our degreed betters running our so-called institutions of higher learning.

  But is 2020 so shrouded in the mists of history as to be inaccessible to the people who hold themselves out as arbiters of all that is good and just? Apparently so. Consider: it was a mere four years ago that every major city in America was convulsed in the paroxysms of violence that followed the death of George Floyd. We must, said these lettered sophisticates, allow the oppressed to vent their outrage at the death of one of their own at the hands of state oppressors. To deter them in any way would only deepen their pain. And never mind that our hero of the moment had lived a life of depredation and was found to have consumed a fatal dose of fentanyl. Such trivial details need not dim the luster of the man’s memory.

He points out college administrators kowtowing to the mobs, and the parallels between the bolsheviks, nazi's and Ham-assholes. He even gets in a classic swipe at Conehead:

• I’m old enough to remember the mayhem on the streets during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, which will again host the event this coming August. The mayor of Chicago is Brandon Johnson, as dim a man as ever crossed the threshold at City Hall. I’m sure the Hamasniks, for whom the convention will be their Super Bowl, have already made their travel plans.

Check it out.

Dry Run

As the Hamas-hole protests keep spreading across the nation, it was inevitable they end up here at some point. They've been setting up "camps" at various campuses, having outside agitators coach the willing and ignorant into chanting, marching, provoking and lawbreaking.

After "negotiating" for hours (mistake) and allowing provocations to go unanswered (another mistake), CPD was finally authorized to make arrests after giving three warnings (yet another mistake).

And it actually went pretty well. The useful idiots who were facing student sanctions left, leaving the dedicated arrestees behind, who were taken into custody, minimal muss-and-fuss, processed and released with no bail (of course). We didn't hear of any serious injuries to police, but...

(there's always a "but...")

We're sure there were observers on both sides, and the agitators were taking copious notes, about procedures, processing, transporting, releasing, etc. What they do with the info is CPD's problem moving forward. 

Police are reactionary by design. And a mostly tame demonstration forces us to reveal our tactics in advance. Now, forewarned and forearmed, the protestors can alter their tactics and force the police into unplanned circumstances, which will reduce effectiveness and (possibly) cripple responses.

That's simple a fact and all we can do is warn about it, to temper overreactions that will look bad, will look improper and will be portrayed in the worst possible light. 

Be careful, be smart, stick together.

Remember Who He Is

Nice to see Conehead dressed up so nicely for the St Jude Memorial March. We know it's uncomfortable to march in patent leather shoes, but doesn't someone make a darker colored gym shoe so it isn't so obvious?

And someone was kind enough to send us this reminder of who Conehead truly is:

This was a few summers ago, but the sentiment is still there today.

Parade Cut Short

We can hardly wait for the downtown two-day extravaganza!

• The annual Little Village Cinco de Mayo parade was rerouted and then cut short Sunday after shots were fired along the parade route, officials said, though paradegoers still reveled the chance to celebrate Mexican culture and history.

  The Chicago Fire Department responded to the scene near Cermak Road and Washtenaw Avenue, but they found no one with injuries to take to the hospital.

  Chicago police worked with parade organizers to reroute the celebration, which was scheduled to start at noon, heading west along Cermak from Damen Avenue to Marshall Boulevard. Instead, the parade started closer to 12:30 p.m. south on Damen to Blue Island Avenue.

  At 1:30 p.m., the Chicago Police Department announced in a statement that the parade had been canceled “out of an abundance of caution.”

Does anyone know if the Cubs game was canceled "out of an abundance of caution"?

• A man and a woman were shot outside Wrigley Field early Sunday morning, Chicago police said.

  The shooting happened around 1:13 a.m. in the 1000-block of Addison Street in Wrigleyville.

  The victims told officers an unknown man shot and drove off in a dark-colored SUV.

Who are we kidding? They didn't even delay the White Sox game after a CTU member smuggled a handgun into Comiskey in her fat flaps and shot another attendee with a negligent discharge. We're waiting for the accusations of "racism!" to start up any second now. 

Did you know that the scene of the shots fired is mere spitting distance from "lil homicide" was blasting away at passing cars before his demise?

CTU Extortion

While the head of the teacher's union tickles Conehead's prostate, get another look at what she's demanding:

• The teachers union is demanding nine percent cost of living adjustments every year. 

  According to Indeed, the average salary of a teacher in Chicago Public Schools is $67,718. With raises every year for four years, teachers would be getting paid about $95,000 a year by 2028, which is roughly 36 percent higher than the national average.

  The $50 billion demand comes despite the fact that Chicago Public Schools spends more than $21,000 per student, far above the national average of $14,347, per the Census Bureau.

  And even with the extra $7,000 that Chicago lavishes on its students, the cost doesn't appear to lead to better academic results.
  

It's far past time to break the CTU. 

Ban strikes - they keep telling us they're "essential," If they're that essential, like cops and firefighters, then they're too essential to strike - and tie raises into results.

Some smartass is going to chime in with "Then tie the police raises into results." That's fine with us, because all we've been hearing for years now is, "Crime is down!" and we still can't get correctly paid or paid on time.

Again, Nothing to See Here

Carry on as if nothing is happening:

• A deadly outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) has occurred inside a California hotel housing homeless people, leading to the death of one person and forcing city health officials to declare a public health emergency.

And a link, buried in the story, a reminder:

• TB outbreak at Chicago shelters
  

All these diseases kept to a minimum for years, decades even, making a comeback.

Conehead the Pinata

Let's see....this week Mendoza took a swing at mayor BlowJob, Catanzara smacked him around, Maryann Ahern chased him with some questions and now Kass is taking a swing at him:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson had another one of his panic attacks Thursday, running away from reporters like NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern, who just wanted to ask him–among other things– about his administration pressuring the family of slain Chicago Police officer Luis Huesca, to let Johnson attend his funeral.

  Johnson ultimately did not attend, even though he and other officials spilled their petulant, childish drama over the somber event. To watch him succumb to his panic attacks over questions about the funeral I leave this link:

  https://x.com/MaryAnnAhernNBC/status/1786118723230707763

  “Why do you have to run from us Mr. Mayor?” asked Ahern.

  But Ahern knows the answer. He’s a snowflake, a grape who can’t take the pressure of leadership.  And there are just about 100 days until the hard left tear up the Democratic National Convention. What a party it will be.

Kass also notes the political machinations that failed to get Conehead to the funeral (including the lies told and the blackmail attempt by a certain exempt to leverage a Line of Duty honors) were among the most "despicable" he had ever seen.

A commenter noted that when the head of the CTU crooks her index finger, Conehead's eyes blink, his head twitches and you can see the script he's required to follow.

This guy is so over his head it isn't even funny any more. It's dangerous and getting worse. August is going to be a nightmare.

Missed OT Pay Day?

If we were as inept at our jobs as everyone at Payroll appears to be, we'd be up on charges, suspended and probably fired:

• We can't go even a month without a paycheck screw-up. From taking taxes out of uniform allowances to ignoring withholding changes to union dues fuck ups to missing OT pay dates. Tell me again why we switched from the 1st and the 16th?  Because every other Department was on a different pay schedule?
  

Are any of these other Departments having the issues CPD is or is it just the Police getting screwed on payday?

Or is the City living paycheck to paycheck and they can't play the float any more?

This is a Joke?

Someone trying to start rumors, right?

• Heard all batons, asps and other impact weapons are to be collected at each district.
  They'll be prohibited for carry during the DNC.

Were this even remotely true, we'd have the FOP filing safety grievances on a daily basis. Then we'd be starting with the lawsuits. Because Impact Weapons are part of the Use of Force Model. Larritorious told us so, and he "taught" it between testifying in Federal Court and boning sessions with recruits.

If the administration is thinking of removing a perfectly legal, authorized, routinely taught and required pieces of equipment from our response toolbox, the only conclusion is they're sending us out to get hurt or worse.

But as we said, this appears to be someone just trying to stir the pot.

Reminder - St Jude's March

St Jude's has been moved back to Michigan Avenue after many years.

That means parking is going to be next to impossible and we aren't sure how many Districts were arranging buses to transport marchers.

We're wondering what everyone is wondering:

• Why?

On one hand, parking was free and it was always nice to visit the Police Memorial every year. The open space made hanging out and finding old friends a bit easier with elbow room to visit.

On the other, we always felt it was a bit out of sight, whereas Michigan Avenue - even on a Sunday morning - was a powerful backdrop to thousands of cops marching. We were there one year when a tourist from Europe asked what was going on. When informed it was a Memorial March, he gazed up and down the street and asked, "But then who is watching the rest of the City?"

As we become more aged and more cynical. we have to wonder if this is an effort to reduce attendance what with the no parking and the inability to visit with friends afterwards.

Conehead Runs Away

Here's the video link from Maryann Ahern's social media:

• Video Feed

His press people tried to deny this happened, saying or implying that it was some other point-haired individual leaving in a mayoral SUV through an alley far above the alley speed limit where children might have been playing.

Then Conehead appeared at a presser with Crimesha and Larritorious Friday and jokingly made a comment to the effect of "Don't chase me" from the podium.

We thought Groot was unable or unwilling to read the room, bragging about her dick and other tone-deaf nonsense.

This guy is probably worse.

Lieutenant List

Let's see,,,,at least one driver, one secretary and one pin-cushion.

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Lieutenant List Out?

Didn't they just make a bunch of lieutenants this year?

Are the retirement numbers larger than we had heard? So bad that they have to do another class on the heels of the previous one?

Post it if you got it or send it here.

Larry Saves Conehead Money

This would have cost taxpayers million of dollars:

• Chicago Police Department leaders said Thursday they have decided not to punish any officers whose names appeared on the leaked membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that played a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

  “The investigation is closed and the allegations were not sustained,” a spokeswoman for the CPD said in a statement, declining to provide any documents from the internal probe.

  The brief statement stood in stark contrast to Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling’s zero-tolerance vow to the City Council in October, after WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times revealed the misconduct records of the cops with ties to the Oath Keepers.

In something like 100% of the "misconduct" allegations, none of it had anything to do with membership in the Oath Keepers. In many of the cases, the Officers names were gleaned from phone lists or email lists and there was zero documentation that anyone had done anything aside from signing up for a newsletter. Of the few that had sustained allegations, all served disciplinary penalties through the appropriate channels, but again, none of the allegations were tied to membership in an organization.

After this story broke, we may have suggested to numerous persons at bars and parties that membership applications should be filled out in Larritorious's name along with Conehead and other members of the City Council.

There's still the Right to freely associate with all sorts of groups and people that others may find objectionable on some level....like democrats or lawyers or anyone working for COPA.

Pre-Convention Lawsuit

They're pre-suing Chicago:

• As protests surge across America just months before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, activists representing LGBTQ+ and women’s reproductive rights say Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is violating their First Amendment rights and is unprepared for the onslaught of dissidents headed to the city this August.

  The claims were made as Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging the city wrongfully denied permits for the group to protest by the Water Tower on Michigan Avenue, an area where many Democratic delegates will be staying during the Aug. 19-22 convention.

  Joined by the ACLU of Illinois, activists with the LGBTQ+ and women’s reproductive rights organization said that while they support the Democratic Party over Republicans it’s essential for protesters to be heard to ensure their perspectives are reflected by the party both during and after the convention.

Just so everyone is aware, if protestors pop up in unexpected places around town, they still have a First Amendment Right to be in public spaces, chanting what they want, protesting whatever. Be familiar with the First Amendment General Order.

They still have to obey laws concerning being on sidewalks, not blocking intersections, etc. They're claims of Conehead's administration being unprepared are 100% on point, but that doesn't mean you can't be prepared and informed in advance, so when mayor BlowJob attempts to throw you under the bus, you're able to defend your actions....or inactions.

Protesting Johnson's

So many opportunities for jokes here.

Keesing Bandit hardest hit:

• As of Thursday evening, more than 1,200 people have signed a petition to stop Johnson’s Chicago, a Florida-based male strip club, from opening at 954 W. Belmont Ave. — formerly home to Berlin Nightclub, which closed its doors in November 2023 after 40 years.

And the main reason for protesting Johnson's?

• He also said he was concerned when he looked at the owner Matt Colunga’s social media and found that he was rejecting dancers based on their appearance.

The owner won't hire ugly dancers.

If we were to go to a normal strip club, we wouldn't be going there for the furniture, the liquor or the conversation.

They want this guy to commit to going out of business by promising to do everything possible to be unsuccessful. What world do these people live in?

Targeted Car Burglaries

Someone is looking at unmarked cars:

• A group of thieves targeted law enforcement vehicles on the city's Northwest Side, Chicago police said.

  CPD issued a community alert after three law enforcement vehicles were broken into in Edison Park, Oriole Park and Wildwood. In each incident, offenders drove up to a vehicle in a dark colored SUV,broke the window, and took items from the glove compartment and trunk.

  It's unknown what the thieves took from the law enforcement's units.

These are among the nicer neighborhoods in town, with a higher number of city workers, a larger percentage of property taxes and a lower crime rate.

If we were degenerate gambling types, we'd lay money on the cars being exempt vehicles. And as the exempt creatures are the "best and brightest" of our members ("Earned, not Given") we'd supppose that there weren't any weapons stored in the cars.

We'll assume radios, uniform items, maybe some helmets, riot gear, perhaps a gun belt with magazines and ammo. 

We're pretty sure all of these items are required to be listed on an AdMin Fax message, so everyone will  know soon enough.

Is that rule still in effect that take-home vehicles must be parked on the street and not in a garage?

Oops...Again

Those darn ShotSpotters, doing the job that 9-1-1 callers won't do:

• In making the case to tie Mayor Brandon Johnson’s hands on canceling the ShotSpotter contract, City Council members have repeatedly cited faster response times and the number of gunshot detection alerts not accompanied by a 911 call.

  South and West side alderpersons representing the city’s most violent police districts have argued that Chicago police officers never would have known about those incidents without ShotSpotter.

  Now, they have statistics to back up their anecdotal claims.

  The statistics, compiled by the Chicago Police Department, show response times over the past six years were more than two minutes quicker with a ShotSpotter alert than when the gunshot detection alert was accompanied by a 911 call.

Faster response times means quicker medical care for the maimed and better chances at apprehension...which is why Conehead and Crimesha don't want it around.

How much quicker?

• With only a ShotSpotter alert, the average response time was 8 minutes, 6 seconds. That compares with 10 minutes, 11 seconds when ShotSpotter was combined with a 911 call. Response time grew to 10 minutes, 48 seconds with a 911 call but no ShotSpotter alert.

Oh.

Actually, that's kind of ridiculous. Eight full minutes to respond to a ShotSpaooter call?

We guess this is "Proof Positive" of the warnings we've been giving for nearly two decades about manpower dwindling to crisis levels.

How is Cashless Bail Going?

This article appeared a few days ago:

• About seven months after Illinois ended cash bail as a key provision of the much-debated SAFE-T Act, fears that it would lead to a surge in freed criminal suspects committing more offenses or skipping court so far haven't materialized, at least in Cook County.

  [...] According to the latest data — which spans from the end of cash bail on Sept. 18, 2023, through April 13 — 30,012 defendants have been granted pretrial release in Cook County, while 1,970 have been detained.

  Of those released, 26,930 of them — about 90% — have appeared in court as required, including 88% of felony defendants. That's an improvement from three years ago, when about 80.4% of those charged with felonies and released on bond attended their scheduled court hearings, according to a report from the Civic Federation.

  The data shows that among defendants released while awaiting trial, 89% of them have not incurred additional charges. Among the 11% who had, 4% of them were violent offenses. That's again an improvement over 2021, when 18.2% faced new charges, according to the Civic Federation report.

But then we read stuff like this on CWB:

• A man on parole for two gun cases faces three counts of attempted murder after he allegedly opened fire on another car during a road rage altercation near the Loop on Friday morning. Prosecutors say young children were in Steven Moore’s car and the victims’ car at the time of the shooting.

In fact, you can read - on average - around a story per week about someone on bail committing another violent crime. CWB even kept a running count on their stories last year....not sure if they're still doing it.

Additionally, you cannot (and should not) trust any stories in the media citing statistics. We wrote just a few days ago how New York, LA and Chicago (among others) haven't reported any crime states to the feebs in over a year, so nothing is accurate.

As we've said in the past, who are you going to believe? The media? Or your goddamn lying eyes?

Killer Arrested

About an hour ago:

• The suspect wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca was arrested Wednesday in west suburban Glendale Heights — with the slain officer’s own handcuffs used to detain him, according to law enforcement sources.

  Xavier L. Tate Jr., 22, was taken into custody without incident shortly after 7 p.m. following a “multi-state investigation” that involved the Chicago Police Department and “many other” law enforcement agencies, according to Belkis Sandoval, a spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force.

  Authorities had issued an arrest warrant for Tate on Friday night, when documents filed by the Cook County state’s attorney’s office charged him with first-degree murder in the April 21 shooting in the Gage Park neighborhood.

A heartfelt Thanks to everyone involved in tracking down this piece of garbage.

Who the F#$% Was This?

Inside info of the political maneuvering that took place behind the scenes, trying to get Conehead to the funeral of Officer Huesca, including some truly scumbag behavior by Special Activities Section and an unnamed Spanish speaking exempt member:

• Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara is lifting the curtain on the backstage maneuvers culminating in Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. J.B. Pritzker being told to stay away from the funeral of slain Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca.

  The back-and-forth, which only intensified the grieving family’s anguish, did not start and end with Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza delivering the stay-away message directly to the mayor Sunday night.

There was a conference call in which Huesca's sister threatened to make a scene and toss the mayor out herself. At this point, the true scumbaggery commenced:

• Catanzara “thought everything was squared away” until midday Sunday, when the Huesca family, gathered for the wake, texted a question: “Is the mayor really coming?” He rushed to the funeral home, where CPD personnel told him they had talked to the family, and “they understand that the mayor is mandatory to be here,” Catanzara said.

  “I said, ‘You’re lying to the family. There is nothing mandatory about the mayor’s attendance, and shame on you for even trying to tell the family that this is the only option they have.’”

  A flurry of conversations ensued, one including CPD Supt. Larry Snelling on speakerphone with other police brass, one of whom told Huesca’s mother, in Spanish, it was “mandatory that the mayor had to show up.”

  “ At one point, there was an implication that the honors funeral is tied to the mayor’s attendance. That was the guilt trip that we’re laying on this family,” Catanzara said.

We'd certainly like to have that exempt's name so we can properly denounce him and let everyone know what a dick he actually is....though everyone probably knows it already.

Here's the deal - once Larritorious declared it a "Line of Duty Death," the Honors Funeral is a given. Period. No "take backsies" or other such bullshit. You declared it. 

If Larritorious made this declaration at the behest of politicians for the sole reason that Conehead and Fata$$ could have a photo opportunity, then Larritorious needs to be demoted, fired and drummed out of the Department. He would have made a mockery of every other Line of Duty death AND cheapened the death of a good and decent copper who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Also, Catanzara is correct. There is zero "mandatory" appearance for anyone to appear. Not in Law, not in Ordinance, not in policy. And for some scumbag exempt to try to guilt the bereaved family into acquiescing so that some asshole politician can pretend to be something that everyone knows his entire first year of office was spent portraying the entire Department as the enemy, as racist, as something needed to be reined-in, then that exempt needs to be identified, demoted and called out as an utter tool.

And everyone at Special Activities Section needs to be tossed back to a District for the rest of their careers, blacklisted from ever being in a phone call unit, and reminded every day that they're fucking idiots, probably just like the exempt that brought them downtown in the first place.

Extra Reading

Articles of interest we've run across tonight.

Another useless police oversight body, bringing the total to something like eight:

• The president and vice president of Chicago’s Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability on Tuesday are among Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choices to serve on the permanent panel responsible for civilian oversight of the Chicago Police Department.

  Anthony Driver Jr. and interim vice president Remel Terry are among seven mayoral nominees to the permanent commission.

So we've got COPA, IAD, the Police Board, the Consent Decree people, this "Accountability" board, the local District Councils, Crimesha's task force....we're missing one somewhere.

Is there any comparable amount of people and boards overseeing the Fire Department? The schools? The City Council?

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Marty Preib explains the rotten media structure that abets Crimesha's corruption:

• Among the new buzzwords in Chicago’s war on the criminal justice system is the claim of “duty to intervene.”

  The phrase describes the city’s demand that officers should turn in officers who commit misconduct. That is the rhetoric. In reality, it is a phrase that will be used to cast a wider net in the war on police officers by attorneys and their media lapdogs.

Go read it all - the amount of taxpayer money being directed at these corrupt institutions is astounding.

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Our old friends at the Contrarian take a deep dive into Conehead's efforts to make Dexter into osome sort of martyr and provoke Minnesota riots here:

• ....it was Mayor Johnson who delivered the most disturbing remarks and they are worth examination. Describing the incident in front of reporters, Johnson declared the events capturing Reed firing on officers and police defending themselves on video as “deeply disturbing,” “painful,” and “traumatic.” Projecting undue calm, Johnson sulked with anguish over Reed’s death, as if Chicago had suffered a great loss with the armed gunman’s death.

  Far from a tragedy, Johnson neither mentioned Reed’s criminal history — Reed was out on bail awaiting trial on a felony gun charge — nor did the mayor explicitly state Reed fired at police. Worse, Johnson waited until near the conclusion of his remarks to address Reed’s attack on police, describing with indifference how he would never “condone” or “excuse” an attack on police. Most troubling was Johnson approximating the value of the life of Reed and his victim, Officer Gregory St. Louis. A bizarre parallel for the mayor to draw as he addressed an armed criminal who shot at and wounded a police officer, Johnson’s comments only highlighted his contradictory prioritization of violent criminals over police or unarmed citizens.

Well written and - to the uninformed - eye-popping conclusions that Conehead's sole effort was to undermine Officers doing their jobs and expose taxpayers to yet another ghetto lottery payout.

Go read it all.

WTF Paul?

Sticking up for Ed Burke?

• Former Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas told a federal judge that convicted ex-Ald. Edward M. Burke is “worthy of whatever leniency you see fit to provide” in an early batch of what will likely be several letters of support ahead of Burke’s sentencing this summer.

This appeared mere days after Vallas guest-posted on John Kass's blog:

• You want to know why violent crime is surging in the nation’s urban centers? Look no further than the radical left’s efforts to “reform” the criminal justice system by pretending that criminals are just a new class of victims whose violence is a product of our systemically racist society. According to them it’s not the sociopaths committing the violence, it’s racism. Racism, not crime, explains America’s prison population which has not plummeted as violent crime has surged.

While we don't argue with the fact that violent crime has surged....in fact, we were warning about years ago before it became stylish to mention it....but one of the underlying reasons violent crime surges is an overall disregard for the Rule of Law and white collar criminals being given leniency.

A violent criminal usual victimizes one person at a time:

• a single mugging
• a single burglary
• a battery or robbery
• most gunshot victims are still single victim crimes....murders, too

But white collar crime victimizes thousands of taxpayers, sometimes tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of victims at a time. And excusing the crime with leniency revisits the damage done again.

Throw the book at Burke. Maybe he dies in prison. He made his choices.

Dragging it Out

The longer they drag it out, the less people will remember it when the judgement comes down:

• Testimony ended Monday in the naked crack head, squad car stealing, squad car crashing, attempted murdering witch. Closing arguments are May 22 at 11am Room 304

This thing was dragged out two years just to get to trial and now the bench trial is entering it's third month.

The fix is almost certain at this point. Seems she's a neighbor of Conehead and probably worked on his campaign before he got her a city job.

Lasers

Someone was griping about the 3-day Field Force training. One way to avoid it (as we found) was to announce your intent to retire prior to the DNC. They didn't even schedule us for it.

But we were more concerned about something else:

• eye protection against laser damage

We've seen dozens of reports, from here and abroad, about laser pointers being used to "paint" aircraft cockpits, potentially blinding pilots. The FAA has issued all sorts of warnings, many LEO Confidential, so we'll not be posting those.

There are also reports, again from here and abroad, of lasers being used against police in riot/mob situations and Officers suffering significant irreversible eye-damage.

Is there a plan to address any of this? We'll be gone, but we can be concerned for those who are left.

Twitter as News?

So this happened prior to the funeral Monday:

• As a nationwide search for the man accused of murdering Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca continues, his family is asking Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker to stay away from his funeral today, according to three reports and the Illinois State Comptroller.

  Mary Ann Ahern of NBC5 and Courtney Spinelli of WGN-TV both shared that information on Twitter, citing sources. Ahern said the governor would honor the family’s request.

  The reports both said Huesca’s family shared their wishes with Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza when she attended the officer’s wake on Sunday. Mendoza confirmed on Monday morning that she and Rep. Angelica Guerrero Cuellar (22nd) relayed the information to Johnson personally.

Fata$$ immediately said he'd stay away. There's wasn't a buffet anyway, so it was an easy decision.

It took Conehead until an hour prior to the funeral to decide to cancel his plans to exploit the death of an Officer. 

Lib-tarded "progressive" scumbag head of COPA Andrea Kersten had to be asked to leave the wake twice as she positions herself to run for mayor in three years.

The obvious message here is that politicians who condemn the police with one breath, are not welcome to express insincere condolences when the laws and policy decisions they champion directly contribute to the deaths of those same Officers so they can pretend to be law-and-order candidates next election.

And aside from the CWB reporting and the Contrarian X/Twitter feed, no mainstream media outlets reported the family's wishes....because it would have been embarrassing to those exploiting the Officer's death.

But....do you see the highlighted links in the CWB report up top? Those are X/Twitter feeds to reports that the editors refused to broadcast, but the reporters tried to get the word out anyway. Maybe to preserve the "scoop" but also, to actually do their jobs and inform the public.

We have no real idea how X/Twitter works. We can barely understand eBlogger and we keep our social media footprint deliberately small. But it is looking more and more like the big media companies are dying and the smaller micro-platforms may be the only truth being told.

UPDATE: The Tribune Editorial Staff takes a swipe at Susana Mendoza for revealing the family request for un-supportive politicians to stay away from the funeral, calling it a "political opportunity for a mayoral humiliation." 

Fuck them. If anyone needs to be humiliated, it's Conehead. And Fata$$. And Kersten. Bravo to Mendoza for letting everyone know that if you support a anti-police agenda, you aren't welcome at police funerals. That should be the bottom line.

We're still holding out hope she runs for mayor again in a few years.

Crime is NOT Down

Hey, if it's in the Wall Street Journal, it's got to be more accurate that the New York Times:

• Americans think crime is on the rise, but the media keep telling them they’re wrong. A Gallup survey last year found that 92% of Republicans and 58% of Democrats thought crime was increasing. A February Rasmussen Reports survey found that 61% of likely voters say violent crime in the U.S. is getting worse, while only 13% think it’s getting better. Journalists purport to refute this by citing official crime statistics showing a downward trend.

  Americans aren’t mistaken. News reports fail to take into account that many victims aren’t reporting crimes to the police, especially since the pandemic.

This is an opinion piece, but the author is John R. Lott Jr., the well-known expert on Gun Rights and probably best known for applying actual scientific analysis to crime statistics - something the media and anti-gun people refuse to acknowledge:

• The U.S. has two measures of crime. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting program counts the number of crimes reported to police every year. The Bureau of Justice Statistics, in its National Crime Victimization Survey, asks some 240,000 people a year whether they have been victims of a crime. The two measures have diverged since 2020: The FBI has been reporting less crime, while more people say they have been victims.

  The divergence is due to several reasons. In 2022, 31% of police departments nationwide, including Los Angeles and New York, didn’t report crime data to the FBI. In addition, in cities from Baltimore to Nashville, Tenn., the FBI is undercounting crimes those jurisdictions reported.

31% of jurisdictions DIDN'T EVEN REPORT CRIME DATA to the FBI? Including New York and Los Angeles? 

Gee, you think that had an effect on the crime statistics? 

And you think that doesn't prove (again) that the FBI is not to be trusted in anything? They should just change their name to the "Ministerium für Staatssicherheit" now and save the printing costs.

Go read it all.

Weekend Wilding Coverage

We had pointed out that not a single media outlet appeared to cover the Saturday night mayhem downtown this past weekend, and we lamented that the violence had become so commonplace (and expected) that it wasn't worthy of coverage according to the lib-tarded media.

But we discovered that someone is still out there covering it on the X / Twitter platform:

• William J Kelly twitter feed

This person is the reporter who got under Groot's skin, had his press credentials pulled and then sued her to get them back. He appears to be a bomb-thrower with some talent for digging out stories City Hall would rather no one saw.

Thanks to the reader that let us know.

Funeral Today

Some (or most) of the media links on the right hand side will have streaming coverage of the service and / or funeral procession.

RIP Officer Huesca.

Cops Wanted

But very few are applying, according to our old friend Jack Dunphy:

• Gentle reader, are you looking for a job? Are you interested in one in which you’re regularly exposed to staph infections, lice, scabies, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and every other imaginable parasite and infectious disease as borne by America’s largest population of drug-addicted vagrants?

  Would you like to work for a city whose municipal government is rife with socialists, people who would more quickly blame you for their city’s ills than the criminals who prey on their fellow citizens? Are you thrilled at the prospect of a job in which the split-second decisions you make in defending yourself and others from death or serious injury are endlessly scrutinized by people in your chain of command who have spent their careers avoiding situations requiring such decisions?

  And finally, are you hoping to work in a city where the district attorney is more eager to imprison you than the criminals you’re expected to confront? If all of that describes you, gentle reader, you’re in luck. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass wants you to know the LAPD is hiring.

And this hiring shortfall is hitting all of the usual blue-state $hitholes you'd expect. Including Chicago.

Go read it all.

Police Ain't Coming

As we suggested just yesterday:

• From the university’s perspective, it seemed like the perfect time for the police to move in and break up the students’ anti-genocide camp: 3 a.m.

  George Washington University had given the students until 7 p.m. on Thursday night to clear out. Instead more than a thousand students from other area universities and other supporters flooded the university yard, forming a circle around around the camp.

  As the time advanced beyond midnight the crowd dwindled, leaving the encampment less protected. It seemed logical that under the cover of darkness, with fewer media also present, the police would intervene, as they have on a growing number of campuses around the United States.

  And that’s what the GWU president wanted. But the Washington mayor and the police brass refused, according to The Washington Post.

This is Washington DC - ground zero for lib-tarded politicians and their sycophantic police officials since Ramsey left over a decade ago. 

And they're refusing to eject semi-peaceful political protestors from private property.

Maybe this catches on in time for the convention? Give the mob their "room to destroy."

Wilding is now Normal

Scanning the major media outlets and nary a mention of this weekend's wilding downtown.

Even the alternative media didn't mention it.

We guess it all went away?

• Anonymous said... Saturday night was Another shit show downtown, by Colombus & Illinois Streets . Again Mayor Conehead's [non-demonized] kids .. 60+ CPD Officers at least kept the assswipes off the street
  Of Course No comment from Fake Mayor Johnson
• Anonymous said... No coverage of the [mono-chromatic] mobs roaming downtown last night.. in prime tourist spots,,,, by any fake Chicago media.. Lets go brandon biden  

So unless someone gets shot or there's a "street takeover," it doesn't exist any more.

Good to know.

Good Idea?

We think it's the start of a good idea:

• In recent years, unofficial street parties celebrating Mexico’s Independence Day have surged in popularity: car caravans clog the Loop with bumper-to-bumper traffic as people dance in the streets, drivers do burnouts, and an orchestra of car horns fills the air.

  [...]  Now, there’s another plan—a plan to host a two-day Mexican Independence Day festival in Grant Park. The Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Mexican Consulate in Chicago are proposing the idea, which Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) revealed in his weekly newsletter on Friday.

  Organizers say Choose Chicago and the state support the event, which will run from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on September 14 and 15. According to a promotional flyer, the festival will include food, “family fun,” arts and crafts, live music and performances at the Petrillo Bandshell, and “some of the best Margaritas in town.”
  

This should be the pattern for ALL parades and big festivals moving forward. Once it hits a certain point, becomes a certain size, has a certain number of parade units / floats, then it goes down to Grant Park and travels down Columbus Drive. The advantages are monstrous:

• the staging area becomes Solidarity Drive for floats and parade units;
• easy storage of the iron fencing for crowd control;
  
• tons of paid parking - all money in the city coffers;
• one single route for clean-up, so less muss, less fuss, less Streets and San OT

Think about the regular parades calendared years in advance. Set a price for the permit, set manpower numbers for Traffic Aides, require certain numbers of security personnel paid for by the parade committee.

You could even work in the usual bribes and graft that follow these events.

UPDATE: We forgot to mention this, but with a single authorized parade / festival, then ALL other "celebrations" and street takeovers are now illegal. Politicians can hide behind the "....but there was an authorized celebration on...." while the Department comes up with a plan to take back the streets.

Of Course They Lied

Funny how someone who wants taxpayer money, always underestimates the eventual cost:

• The Bears’ pitch for a new domed lakefront stadium came with a $4.7 billion price tag. In reality, though, Chicago and Illinois taxpayers would end up paying $5.9 billion to help the Bears build and finance the stadium and retire existing debt used to renovate Soldier Field and Guaranteed Rate Field, where the White Sox play.

  Add to that the $1 billion already paid to revamp Soldier Field and Guaranteed Rate Field, and the overall cost to taxpayers is $6.9 billion, says Frank Bilecki, executive director of the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority.

  The higher costs were gleaned from figures provided by the Bears during their initial meeting with the stadium authority and in follow-up conversations with the team, Bilecki said.

And that's not even counting the under-the-table "asks" that the Bears are trying to sneak through:

• Although a new domed stadium would be built on lakefront parkland and owned by the Chicago Park District, the Bears are also seeking to dramatically sweeten for themselves the terms of a stadium lease that has been an almost constant source of contention between tenant and landlord over the years.

  “They’re asking to keep all of the revenue from other events that might take place at the stadium,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Thursday. “If there’s a Beyonce concert, they want all of that revenue, too, and everything else that might happen there. There are aspects of this that are probably non-starters.”

  Pritzker went further on Friday: “The deal that was presented didn’t take into account that taxpayers really aren’t going to do well under that proposal.”

All we're seeing is that Fata$$ and the other politicians haven't been offered enough bribe money to sell out taxpayers yet.

This also explains why Reinsdorf was opening his wallet suddenly - he wants to get inside of the Bears management who were demanding ALL of the ISFA bonding authority money to freeze out the White Sox new stadium efforts.

Think what all of that tax money could do for under-funded pensions if it was directed properly.