The Actual Changes

So the rumor posted was a bit off, but the comment section got most of these correct (click for larger versions):

Just shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic while Conehead backs up for another run at the iceberg.

We Could Support This 100%

When the justice system fails, the public shouldn't be blamed for taking the law into their own hands. It's pretty much an obligation.

But what to do when the criminal is out of reach?

• People have showered an alleged car thief in a California jail with donations after she beat up a fellow inmate who is charged, along with her husband, with torturing and killing her eight-year-old stepdaughter.

  Donors in Bakersfield, where details of the horrific child abuse case have been highly publicized, have maxed out the inmate account of Anita Doron at the Kern County jail after she pummeled 27-year-old stepmother Graciela Bustamante on August 8.

  Doron told local outlet KBAK what triggered the beatdown, which resulted in a trip to the hospital for Bustamante before she was returned to jail.

  “Some of the girls had seen her not taking it too seriously,” Doron said. “She had come back from court, and she was laughing and giggling and stuff, and they were just like, ‘Why, what’s funny?’”

This is why we aren't to concerned when we hear of a gang banger or a robber who likes to beat elderly people or some short-eyes getting a bit of prison justice headed their way.

But this....this is a whole other level whereby the disgusted citizens can reward the inmates for taking care of business when they know the "justice system" is probably going to fail society. And in California, it's almost a given that it will fail.

Obviously, you can't go out soliciting a beating (that would be criminal). But rewarding a justified beating? Nothing the matter with that. 

Illegal Cannibal

When they say "migrant," they usually mean ILLEGAL ALIEN:

• A Venezuelan migrant accused of attacking an 85-year-old woman in her Gold Coast building and later targeting other victims in the Loop and Boystown has been detained following his arrest at a downtown pawn shop.

  Ignacio Linares-Rodriguez, 40, allegedly trailed the elderly woman into her building in the 100 block of West Oak Street around 7 a.m. on July 25. Once inside, he allegedly tore a bracelet from her wrist, tried to grab her necklace, and attempted to steal her ring. When the ring would not come off, prosecutors said, he resorted to biting her left ring finger in an effort to pry it loose. The woman managed to resist, and Linares-Rodriguez fled.

Eighty-five years old, and she has to deal with this piece of shit trying to bite off her finger to get a ring she probably had for sixty years.

Anyone call ICE? 

First Day of School!

And right off the bat, we get this:

• A Chicago Public Schools student is in police custody after bringing a firearm to the first day of class at Whitney Young Magnet High School on the Near West Side, officials said. No injuries were reported.

  In an email to the school community, Principal Rickey F. Harris said, “a gun was identified during our standard entry screening” at the school, 211 South Laflin.

  The weapon was “immediately secured and did not proceed further into the building,” Harris wrote.

  A Chicago Police Department spokesperson confirmed that officers responded to the school around 8:13 a.m. to handle a weapons violation. An “offender” was taken into custody and charges were pending, the spokesperson said.

This is a selective enrollment high school, supposedly populated by the best-of-the-best students that Conehead is currently trying to discontinue, believing all students should be dumbed down to the slowest admitted pupils lest the idiots feel like underachievers. 

As usual, no one will be expelled or held accountable to some extent.

Also, this gun did not disappear from a CPD gun turn-in event....that we know of.

Second Time in a Few Days

The Slum Times steals our post without any sort of attribution.

It's not like they cost us money (we do this for free and have for twenty years now) and we don't really expect anything better than that from bottom feeding scumbags.

We just like everyone to know that they do. 

Just Write the Ticket

How many times does this have to happen before Officers stop generating numbers to make the exempts look good, but end up in Federal court for years afterwards?

• Officers on a Chicago Police Department tactical team are facing a new lawsuit this week over a traffic stop turned search that the driver claims was unlawful and racist.

  For years, the ABC7 I-Team has been reporting on a controversial CPD tactic that critics call "pretextual traffic stops," or stops for minor traffic violations turning into drivers handcuffed and vehicles searched, moments after pulling them over.

  It's a police practice that city leaders have vowed to overhaul.

At this point, the only people wanting to see Blue Cards via traffic stops are plaintiff attorneys, because they know the City will pay them tens of thousands for unsubstantiated allegations long before a single deposition is taken or in-car camera / body camera footage is viewed.

Just write the ticket, make sure it's a mail in citation, and move along. If you get notified for Traffic Court, take the deviation if it won't result in suspension time. Is Zoom still an option for Traffic Court? Just stop with the TSSSSSSS bullshit.

He Said, She Said

Here's the other side of the story via a Case Report, just so no one thinks we aren't being fair (click for larger version):

 

And just a friendly reminder, distribution of case report narratives is strictly prohibited and will result in suspension if caught. Your digital footprint is tracked throughout the process of logging in, viewing and printing. 

They can't do any of that to us any more....especially if they haven't taken all of our log in credentials out of the system yet. 

Good Question

A rumor in the comment section....whispers over at City Hall that Conehead is saying the word "bankruptcy" to people. 

A bunch of comments refute that, correctly pointing out that the process isn't permitted under State Law as currently written. The City would have to open the books across the board, letting daylight into places that daylight hasn't seen in decades. And from a purely accounting point of view, the City would have to prove that liabilities exceed obligations, and they'd have to prove it to a forensic accountant most likely at the federal level, which wouldn't be pleasant under the current administration.

No doubt some of this was triggered by a recent article in The Chicago Contrarian:

• First comes moral bankruptcy. Then comes fiscal bankruptcy. That’s the order of things, and if you’re looking for a real-time case study, look no further than the City of Chicago.

  Chicago has been morally bankrupt at least since the advent of the Lightfoot administration, when ideology, incompetence, and cowardice collided to produce one of the most disastrous mayoralties in city history. But in fairness to Lori Lightfoot, she was just one link in a long chain of political cowardice. Her predecessors and their compliant City Councils laid the groundwork: authorizing pension holidays, underfunding obligations, kicking the can down the road, and pretending the math would never catch up to them.

  It has. And the bottom of the cliff is now in sight.

As usual, go read it all. It seems to cover all the bases - good, bad, ugly and really really ugly. 

ShotSpotter to Return?

Or some version of it. The correct political conditions seem to be appearing....there must be a Conehead nephew who landed a job there or something:

• The city of Chicago settled a lawsuit Friday that claimed police used the ShotSpotter gunshot-detection system as a pretext for unlawful stops — even as Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration considers bringing the technology back.

  [....] Johnson campaigned on getting rid of ShotSpotter and has referred to the technology as “a walkie-talkie on a pole” and a waste of taxpayer money. He made good on his campaign promise when he let the ShotSpotter contract lapse in September 2024, but his administration has since opened up bidding on a new contract for gunshot-detection technology.

Most of the article deals with a pair of lawsuits that ::surprise!!:: the City paid off to go away. If you really want to read it all, click the link up top, but suffice it to say the lawyers really twisted themselves into pretzels on this one....and Corp Counsel barely put up a fight.

There are currently eight companies bidding for the Contract, including SoundThinking, the parent company of ShotSpotter, that has the advantage of years worth of data on hand to make their bid very attractive from a financial standpoint.

Good Job Officer

Never much good news about cops just doing their jobs, day in and day out....but no doubt, some people are thankful:

• Air and water show. CPD officer Spotted this elderly lady have difficulty walking . Took the time to help her to her daughter’s car.  Wish the media would show more of this

Sometimes, it's the little things.

Shorting Illinoisans Again

Remember, democrats hate all normies and Fata$$ is their standard bearer:

• Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new law Friday that guarantees undocumented students in Illinois have access to student financial aid.

  House Bill 460 makes financial aid accessible to all Illinois residents, regardless of their legal immigration status.

  “If you live in Illinois and are pursuing higher education, you should have access to the same opportunities as your peers,” said Villanueva (D-Chicago), who introduced the bill. “This law is about making sure no student is left behind because of where they were born.”

Chicago is how broke?

Illinois is how far into debt?

But hey, ILLEGAL ALIENS are still at the top of democrat lists for money that ought to be spent on Illinois kids.

Changes?

Someone posted this in a comment:

• Tate to area 3
  Starks out back to Lt
  Hawkins area 4
  Mcgarry youth
  Connelly 001
  Jerome out 

Did any of it actually happen?

Why Didn't We Think of This?

Has everyone seen the video of the guy throwing a sandwich at a Federal Officer in Washington the other night? turns out he was a DoJ deep-state lib-tard and is currently facing a Federal felony change....and filling out unemployment paperwork.

Today, this popped up in our newsfeed:

• Illinois Governor JB Pritzker reportedly joined the fray as a law enforcement officer in the nation's capital in hopes of getting a sandwich thrown at him.

  Sources said the governor sprang into action today after hearing that a federal officer was assaulted by a man who threw a Subway sandwich at him during a confrontation, joining the D.C. Police Department and requesting immediate duty.

  "Oh man, I've got to get down there right away," Pritzker reportedly said after seeing the viral video of a man assaulting a Customs and Border Protection agent with a subway sandwich. "Baxter, hold all my calls. Tell them I'm on an extended lunch!"

The accompanying picture was great:

And we didn't even make that connection. 

We're getting slow in our advancing age. 

Gun Story Goes National

It was only a matter of time:

• Twanda Willingham is suing the city of Chicago after being shot with a pistol that had been “relinquished to Chicago police at a gun turn-in event,” according to the NRA-ILA.

  FOX 32 reported Willingham was shot in August 2023 with a Glock 21 “surrendered months earlier at a Chicago Police Department gun buyback.”

  Willingham subsequently filed suit against Chicago, after it was discovered the gun had allegedly “disappeared while in transit between the [location of the buy back event] and a nearby police station—just blocks apart.”

This is the gun that disappeared at the 006 "buy back" event and ended up being used another shooting....the event that is receiving renewed attention due to the off-duty behavior of a certain moron.

The hits just keep piling up. Good thing we have a "consent decree" in place for accountability and all that shit, right? 

Skynet Laughs

Yesterday, we wrote about the Oak Brook PD deploying drones....drones that will be semi-autonomous at some point, responding to calls faster than actual officers in order to observe and video crime occurring until police arrive.

Someone with a far better memory than we have posted this story from 2016, by Cuck Goudie of all people. It's about the time former Dallas Chief and Chicago Supernintendo authorized the robotic execution of a five-time-cop-killer:

• When Dallas Police improvised the use of a remote control robot to blow up a shooter, it was heralded as a new frontier for law enforcement. While that may have been the first time a robot was sent in to stop and kill a criminal, the I-Team learned Tuesday night that Cook County's bomb squad has long had a similar attack plan in its playbook.

  [...] The robot delivered a pound of c-4 explosive close enough to the shooter to blow him up, a tactic that Sgt. Larry Drish, commander of the Cook County Sheriff's police bomb squad, always has available.

  "We have been practicing this sort of thing for years, we have the capability in our response trucks and in the response truck with the robots to immediately deploy explosives, with whatever technology we have to immediately end the threat," Drish said.

  Cook County's three robots are funded with Homeland Security money.

Honest to God, we have no idea how we missed this story at the time. There was even a Tribune article! Cook County with robots, armed with an anti-personnel device, with a plan in place, and practicing to use it? In fact, the robot has a bean bag gun, a Taser, and a shotgun barrel - usually used to disable/detonate a explosive, but which can be aimed and fired at a person.

And now Oak Brook is deploying a semi-autonomous drone. 

How soon until they give it a gun? Or maybe a grenade like those Ukrainian drones?

Caught Red Handed (UPDATE)

By the media no less:

• Already under investigation for the on-duty shooting of his partner Krystal Rivera, Chicago Police Officer Carlos Baker may have misrepresented himself and violated department policy in the aftermath of a bar fight in Wicker Park last weekend. Baker is being investigated by the Chicago Office of Police Accountability after police were called to DSTRKT Bar and Grill on North Milwaukee Ave. around 11 p.m. Sunday where a 29-year-old woman, also an off-duty police officer, alleged she was attacked by multiple people including fellow officer Baker.

  While reporting on the initial incident, CBS News Chicago learned from an employee at a neighboring business that Baker called their shop, identified himself as a police officer investigating the bar fight — in which he is actually listed as a suspect — and asked for access to the surveillance cameras.

  The employee showed CBS News Chicago the business' caller ID, which showed Baker's last name and phone number and a time stamp, 3:01 p.m. Wednesday, as news was breaking about the bar fight.

  When a CBS News Chicago reporter called the number and left a voicemail, she promptly received a call back by a man who identified himself as Carlos Baker. He asked if "our restaurant" cameras are working and if they had video of the Sunday night incident.

  When told he was speaking to a reporter, Baker hung up. 

These aren't the actions of an innocent victim. 

These are the actions of a crooked asshole trying to cover his tracks. And it opens up another can of worms that Larritorious, IAD and the political structure is desperate to cover-up....but Baker kind of lit that entire effort on fire.

This is far beyond the pale....it is far past time to put him into a no-pay status, file appropriate administrative AND criminal charges, and move for Thirty Pending. 

UPDATE: Step #1 underway:

• The Chicago police officer who accidentally shot and killed Officer Krystal Rivera while chasing a suspect earlier this summer has been relieved of his police powers, according to the Chicago Police Department.

  CPD did not release any more information as to why the officer was relieved of his powers.

Because not only is he stepping on his dick, he's jumping up and down on it with metal cleats.

Juicy Blames....Rahm?

He just won't go away....and the media keeps giving him play:

• On the eve of a comeback to TV, actor Jussie Smollett is again claiming he did not hoax a supposed hate crime perpetrated against him in 2019 and is renewing his attack on Chicago and its police department.

  Six years after his career fell came to a halt, Smollett is set for a TV comeback in a new competition series this fall entitled, Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.

  But ahead of the debut of the new series, Smollett is unsurprisingly facing questions over his hoax hate crime all over again. And he is still denying that he engaged in a hoax back in 2019 despite the evidence.

  “The villains are the two people who assaulted me, the Chicago Police Department and, if I may be so brave, the mayor [then Rahm Emanuel,” Smollett said according to Variety.

We could get behind this speculation, solely for the reason it would completely derail Rahm's national ambitions. But unfortunately, the Detective Division did such an outstanding investigation, there's nothing to hang that theory on. 

We won't say what this video link is, but [WARNING] don't listen to it with the volume too loud.

DC CompStat Numbers

Evidently, DC Police were lying about crime for years:

• The District of Columbia has quietly settled a lawsuit from a sergeant who accused Metropolitan Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the district's crime statistics, court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Police brass repeatedly told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks, and violent assaults to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions, and phone call transcripts the Free Beacon reviewed.

  Former MPD sergeant Charlotte Djossou sued the department in 2020, alleging that police leadership punished her for speaking out against the scheme. Djossou, who joined the force after serving honorably in Iraq, accused MPD brass of attempting to "distort crime statistics" by "downgrading a number of felonies to misdemeanors, so that there will be 'fewer' felonies in the statistics." She also provided records showing that police leaders explicitly instructed their subordinates to underclassify certain instances of theft to keep them out of the crime stats the city reports to the public.

And now they paid her, mere weeks after a command staff member was suspended for doing what was obviously DC policy for years.

That was the entire point of CompStat when New York started it - downgrading crime so politicians could run on the "crime is down!" platform. 

We found the book and the post we wrote back in 2012 about the numbers game: 

It might even still be available. 

Skynet Smiles

When there aren't enough cops, send the drones:

• Cutting-edge drone technology is now online in metro Chicago. The Oak Brook Police Department is deploying a fully autonomous drone to assess situations, and, more often than not, beat uniformed officers to the scene.

  The newest eye in the sky is billed as a vital tool for everyone's safety.

  The first responder drone made by Flock Safety is housed on the top of the department, and sits at the ready to take flight in an instant anywhere in the 8 square miles of the village.

  "So, the drone to get to any scene within a minute and a half, they're going to get that real in-progress real-time information, video data, license plates, offender information and relay that in real time," Oak Brook Police Chief Brian Strockis said.

  He said the new technology is not seen anywhere else in Illinois. Inside the station, operators in their "new real-time crime center" can deploy the drone at their discretion, based on scanner traffic. It then flies at 200-400 feet above roads and red lights, without a human operator.

  Eventually, the drone will be able to deploy itself, based on specific emergency calls that come in. "It'll get there, nine times out of 10, before an officer will arrive. And it'll be the best camera angle and the best view of that situation, as it's evolving," Strockis said.

We believe we mentioned this somewhere years ago:

• with the massive prevalence of cameras, police might not be able to respond to every 911 call, but by golly, they'll record you being robbed, shot, stabbed, raped or murdered.

The Department will even play the highlight reel at the Christmas parties, complete with the Yakety Sax musical accompaniment. 

FOP Insurrection?

Something is attracting attention over at the Hall, and it has the potential to cause some heavy duty issues. We got a couple emails outlining some concerns about the upcoming By-Law vote in September. Here's the newsletter article (click for larger version):

One of the emails expressed their concerns thusly:

• I just read the president’s piece on the bylaw changes, and I couldn’t help noticing how much it sounded like a self-congratulatory infomercial for himself. It’s being sold as progress, but the only thing really expanding here is JCat’s ego.

  He says this isn’t controversial, but one of the changes he “definitely” wants to pass would expand who we represent — not because our members are clamoring for it, but because he wants more territory,more dues, and more personal power. [...]

  He paints this like we’re some kind of “corporation” that needs to “grow our brand” to stay relevant. Let’s get real, we are a union, not his personal start-up. We don’t exist to expand his market share, we exist to protect and serve our current members. The only “corporate” thing about us lately is how much of our dues he blows on luxury vacations and pricey artwork.

  He’s also been very vocal about wanting to break away from the National FOP — and surprise, surprise — growing our numbers outside Chicago gets him one step closer to running his own “union/cult” completely unchecked. Once that happens, he answers to no one but himself.

  He ends by saying this expansion could make us so big “nobody would touch us.” Translation: so big nobody could touch him. That’s not a plan for member representation, that’s a blueprint for one man’s vanity project. There’s a difference between “expanding our brand” and inflating one man’s ego.

A second email is even more pointed....with a stark warning:

• Article I Section 3 of the by-laws clearly state that "No member shall be simultaneously a member of Chicago Lodge #7 and any other Subordinate Lodge". Which means when he tries to pull CPD members out, they will lose their affiliation with FOP. Word is, John is trying to grab all the departments represented by the Metropolitan Alliance of Police in the state of Illinois.

  The by-law change proposal is the next step in pulling out of FOP. And pulling out of FOP means losing all the protections that come along with national representation. The logical reason for this is because the National FOP can't stand John and effectively blocks everything he tries to do because, and I quote, "No way are we doing anything this asshole wants". So when John can't get what he wants, he tries to manipulate the system to get his way. His ability to run again for President is coming to a close, and John doesn't want to give up the purse strings. And an uninformed membership only makes things easier for him to continuously control our dues money without the members knowing how money is being spent.

  This by-law change proposal is DANGEROUS. It will give J-Cat far too much power to manipulate the system that is supposed to represent the best interest of CHICAGO police officers. Did we learn nothing when the Credit Union opened up their membership to those outside of CPD? What a shit show that became. This is where things are headed unless this by-law change is stopped.

Anyone familiar with By-Law meetings knows that they are crooked as Hell and easily manipulable. We attended a number of these back in the day when Bill Nolan tried to force through contentious issues (this is our recollection of a really bad Nolan meeting):

• the changes, which have already been "vetted" by the Lodge committee, are read to the attendees. Unwanted proposals have been killed by this committee on procedural grounds as well as spelling and grammatical errors;
• the president calls for a voice vote, Aye or Nay, and the declares the winner. No counting, no raising of hands and counting, the president just says, "The Ayes have it" and attempts to move on;
• this particular time, there was a massive outcry over an issue we don't recall right now, but demands were made to "Divide the room," Ayes on one side, Nays on the other, so everyone could see how the vote played out;
• after being declared out of order and other such nonsense, the room was divided, and Nolan still claimed the vote went his way.

That was when we got discouraged by the entire procedure, because the president could just make up the vote, pack the Hall or straight up lie. Old timers will recall that under the following administration, the FOP actually sent out ballots to everyone regarding by-law changes....and even with a self-addressed stamped envelope that cost cops nothing but two minutes to vote, participation was atrocious, maybe one-third of the membership? One quarter? It was bad.

If these speculations are true, this could be far worse.

The Spotlight Goes On

The media picked up on the building calamity that (if it all goes south) will likely end a number of careers and drag a few politicians down with the ship:

• Carlos Baker, the Chicago police officer who shot and killed his partner Krystal Rivera during a foot pursuit earlier this year, allegedly attacked a female officer late Sunday at a bar in Wicker Park, the Chicago Sun-Times and Illinois Answers Project have learned.

  The officer who was injured in the attack filed a police report while she was being treated for a split lip at Rush University Medical Center, alleging that Baker and another woman beat her late Sunday at DSTRKT Bar & Grill, 1540 N. Milwaukee Ave.

  Baker and another woman approached the 29-year-old officer while she was waiting for a rideshare vehicle in the bar’s vestibule and pressured her to delete videos taken on her cellphone, according to police sources. During an argument over the videos, Baker and the woman allegedly “hit her in her facial area.”

  The injured officer escaped, with the help of others, and had a friend take her to Rush Hospital, where she got two stitches to close a cut on her swollen upper lip, sources said. An evidence technician documented the officer’s injuries at her home.

  She told investigators she wasn’t at the bar with Baker or the other woman, and didn’t identify herself as an officer during the attack, sources said. It’s not clear what’s on the videos.

We recognized more than a few quotes in the Slum Times coverage, because we also received the same information, to wit, the Case Report narrative. Anyone who has used the CLEAR system knows it only records in upper case, so you'll have to deal with it. All spelling and grammatical errors are not ours:

• VICTIM RELATED TO RO 'S THAT SHE WAS BATTERED. VICTIM RELATED TO R/O'S THAT SHE WAS LEAVING DSTRKT BAR AND GRILL (1540 RTH MILWAUKEE AVE) AND WAS WAITING OUTSIDE IN THE VESTIBULE FOR AN UBER. VICTIM RELATED THAT SHE AS THEN APPROACHED BY [O] BAKER, CARLOS (WHO SHE STATED WAS AN OFF DUTY CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER) ND HIS POSSIBLE GF [0] UNKNOWN 1, UNKNOWN 1 ABOUT A VIDEO/VIDEOS SHE TOOK WHILE SHE WAS IN THE BAR.
  CTIM RELATED THE OFFENDERS DEMANDED SHE DELETE THE VIDEOS THAT WERE TAKEN ON HER PHONE. VICTIM ND OFFENDERS THE GOT INTO A VERBAL ALTERCATION OVER THE VIDEOS WHICH THEN BECAME PHYSICAL WHEN OTH OFFENDERS BEGAN TO HIT HER IN HER FACIAL AREA. VICTIM RELATED SHE WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE THE )FFENDERS WITH THE HELP OF OTHER UNK INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE ON SCENE.. VICTIMS FRIEND, WHICH SHE VOULD LIKE TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS AT THIS TIME TRANSPORTED HER TO RUSH HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT FOR ГНЕ INJURIES SHE SUFFERED IN HER FACIAL AREA. VICTIM RELATED TO R/O'S THAT SHE IS ALSO AN OFF DUTY PO FOR CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT AS WELL [assignment censored by SCC]. R/O'S ASKED THE VICTIM IF THE OFFENDER KNEW SHE WAS A OFF DUTY P.O. OR IF AT ANY POINT SHE RELATED SHE WAS A P.O. TO THE OFFENDERS IN WHICH SHE RESPONDED NO. R/O'S ASKED THE VICTIM IF SHE WAS THERE WITH THE OFFENDERS IN WHICH SHE REPLIED NO SHE WAS WITH HER OWN FRIENDS. R/O'S REQUESTED A SUPERVISOR TO THE SCENE DUE TO THE VICTIM BEING A OFF DUTY P.O. AND THE OFFENDER BEING AN OFF DUTY P.O. AS WELL. BEAT 1220 ARRIVED ON SCENE. VICTIM SUFFERED A LACERATION TO THE LEFT UPPER SIDE OF HER LIP WITH REQUIRED 2 STITCHES. VICTIMS LIP WAS SWOLLEN AND SHE RELATED SHE HAS PAIN IN THE FACIAL AREA BY HER NOSE. VICTIM WAS TREATED FOR HER INJURIES BY DR WEBER AND IS IN GOOD/STABLE CONDITION AND BEING RELEASED. DUE TO VICTIM BEING TREATED AND RELEASED NO E.T. WAS ORDERED AT THIS TIME. VICTIM RELATED SHE WOULD CALL FOR A E.T. WHEN SHE ARRIVED HOME. R/O'S ASKED VICTIM IF SHE WOULD LIKE FOR US TO KEEP OUR BWC OFF DUE TO BEING IN A HOSPITAL AND PATIENT PRIVACY IN WHICH SHE STATED IT WAS OK TO KEEP BWC OFF AT THIS TIME. VICTIM RELATED SHE NOTIFIED HER SGT [censored by SCC] OF THE INCIDENT ALREADY. VICTIM STATED SHE POSSIBLY LOST HER PNC DEBT CARD DURING THE ALTERCATION AS WELL. VIN GIVEN AND EXPLAINED. R/O'S ASKED OEMC IF THERE WERE ANY CALLS FOR A BATTERY OR DISTURBANCE AT 1540 N MILWAUKEE AVE BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 2230-2330 HRS ON 10AUG25 IN WHICH THEY RELATED THERE WERE NONE. CL #2025-4027 GENERATED FOR INCIDENT.

We would remind everyone that unauthorized viewing and distributing of CLEAR reports is punishable by suspension. Just ask anyone who looked at the Case Report involving the son of the 9.5 digit midget who averaged one-to-three days.

And after yesterday's comments,  "How could you do this?" we'll just say GTFOH with that bullshit:

• He and his companion are (allegedly) beating a woman in a bar over an alleged video taken in a public venue....and you're asking why we'd dare to warn people of this loose cannon? A loose cannon with an (alleged) suicidal threat in the past few weeks? We said maybe he isn't getting the assistance he needs, but maybe it's darker than that and someone needs to step up to stop it.

How many years has it been and we're still hearing the name Van Dyke whenever there's a question about a shooting? Or Abbate when someone gets a DUI and fights at a bar? Or Finnegan when  allegations of thefts pop up? 

Jeez, it's been thirty-two years since Burge was fired, he's been dead going on seven years, and we just saw his name last month in the papers.

No Charges (Finally)

Good news after eighteen months of bullshit:

• Charges won’t be filed against the four officers who shot and killed Dexter Reed after he wounded their partner during a traffic stop last year in Humboldt Park, Cook County’s top prosecutor announced Wednesday.

  Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s office found the officers were in reasonable fear for their lives when they pulled Reed over on March 21, 2024.

  Reed fired first, striking one of the five tactical officers in the hand in the 3800 block of West Ferdinand Street. The other officers responded by firing 96 shots at Reed in less than a minute— hitting him 13 times.

  Prosecutors determined the evidence presented to them didn’t warrant criminal charges — a decision upheld by an independent appellate review.

Of course, COPA is still looking to railroad these guys for assorted imagined and procedural offenses, most (if not all) that could be corrected by training and policy amendments.

Were their tactics by the book? They could be improved on.

Was their marksmanship stellar? It never is under pressure.

Was the stop justified? Certainly.

Was the use of Deadly Force authorized, legal and ethical, after ol' Dex started blazing away with his illegally possessed handgun at Officers in an easily recognizable unmarked squad car, with oscillating lights, siren, in car camera, body cameras, vests marked with CPD insignia and duty gear? Abso-f#$%ing-lutely.

But COPA, being a politically motivated group of hacks, will drag this out. 

Frankenstein Opioids

Safety warning for everyone:

• On a Missouri February night, 21-year-old college student Blake Barklage was found unresponsive by his mother. She had Narcan on hand and used it immediately. 

  Then again. 

  And again. 

  Seven doses later, Blaek still wasn’t breathing. Later, toxicology revealed a synthetic opioid was in his system that's up to 43 times stronger than fentanyl: Nitazene.

Already ravaging Europe, it's crossing the US southern border and is just now being linked to potentially hundreds of deaths. No one had been testing for it specifically....until the Narcan started failing.

We remember when the fentanyl crisis began, skin absorption was the big warning for law enforcement. We would assume this is still an issue? Australia has begun prosecutions for Nitazene vapes, so this stuff is easily transmitted between mediums.

Philadelphia has had limited success with Narcan doses, then emergency medical treatment, followed by more Narcan since the drug seems to overwhelm the Naloxone doses. 

Be aware of what's out there. 

Sigs are Done

Reimbursement may still be on the table for those taking the $95 "trade-in" option:

• Most of the roughly 1,450 Chicago police officers who carried Sig Sauer P320 handguns have replaced them following safety concerns raised this year about the weapon, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

  [...] On Monday, department spokesperson Maggie Huyhn said officers using the P320 were given a July 14 deadline to submit proof of buying a new approved weapon. The Chicago Police Department has about 11,600 sworn officers.  “More than 1,350 affected officers are now in compliance with the phase-out process, with about 100 members not in compliance,” said Huyhn, who declined to address the safety concerns about the P320.

  The department’s firearms training section had scheduled 20 days for those officers who owned P320s to meet with vendors to buy other department-approved guns and equipment, Huyhn said. “Additionally, CPD worked with Acme Sports, a regional Sig Sauer distributor, to secure a ‘trade-in’ option that allowed affected members to pay $95 to trade in their Sig Sauer P320 for another department-approved Sig Sauer model,” she said in a statement.

Those 100 "not in compliance" ought to get into compliance pretty quick, because we all know the City will refuse to indemnify you for actions unauthorized by Orders or policy, and this IS NOT the political atmosphere to tempt that fate.

We would also repeat our concerns about training. Firearms training is a significant chunk of Academy time, because you want to know your weapon well enough that handling it under duress is instinctual. Studies have shown you revert to training habits in an Officer-Involved-Shooting incident - both good habits and bad habits. It's not something you can switch out in a session or two or even ten. Habits take time to learn.

Careening Toward Disaster

A couple disturbing comments recently:

• Hey SCC, most recent news about C.B. Is that he’s over here at bars living his best life, taking shots, dancing on tables and getting into more fights with P.Os. I hope at this rate K.R’s family gets him fired or criminally charged. He’s been seen at Windy City smokeout, lollapalooza and now bars around the city. He’s an arrogant prick who has zero sympathy for what he did, yet hasn’t learned the meaning of laying low.
• Anyone hear about p.o [...] (same guy who killed [KR]) was at a bar and beat the tf out of a girl? Eye shut and multiple stitches.
•  SCC, turns out that the same officer who accidentally shot and killed his partner recently just got himself into some more shenanigans. Off duty incident that involves this idiot punching a fellow female officer at a club. Fellow female officer was treated at a local hospital for her injuries.

We weren't going to mention this, but a few weeks ago, there was an individual on a bridge over the river downtown. He was threatening to jump and a "barricade" incident was called. A Good Samaritan talked him off the bridge before he hurt himself and before SWAT arrived.

We were informed by a 100% reliable source that the individual who was on the bridge was the officer mentioned in the above comments. It sounds like a report wasn't generated, or if it was it's been hidden deeper than deep.

It's certainly sounds like he isn't getting the assistance he might need.

Or maybe he's lashing out being stuck in limbo for the foreseeable future. 

Or this is another example of the failure of the screening process.

Someone better find the f#$% out pretty damn quick. 

A suicide threat would usually result in the suspension of the FOID card by ISP and as a consequence, continued employment by the Department. Same thing with a Battery charge against another Officer.

This isn't just going to end badly. It's going to end in a mess so ugly we don't even want to think about it. 

Is he Running for Mayor?

Sure sounds like Jamal Green is tossing his hat in the ring - he posted this on his social media:

• LISTEN UP: 1200 Chicagoans have been shot this year w/ over 260 DEAD. Every 4 hours & 33min someone is shot in Chicago and every 20 hours & 32 minutes, someone dies from gun violence. Today, a 72 year old woman was shot. I’m tired of Brandon Johnson’s bullshit when he says “violence is down” when he ain’t done nothing but Fund migrants to the tune of a BILLION $$! 
  
  
  After the pandemic, violence skyrocketed, of course it was going to come down a bit. It fluctuates year after year. The results are the same and we must stop playing games, Chicago has terrible leadership and our streets are being overran by those who don’t care for humanity. We must change both for the sake of our CHILDREN! Period!

And it looks like he's reading the HeyJackass.com site. Hopefully voters remember his entire history and not just posts like these.

(thanks to the emailer who sent this in) 

Crime of the Century

This is why you never leave personal property anywhere unattended - especially in police stations (click for larger version):

 Must have been really good coffee.

CPS Party Planner?

So as reported earlier, this "event" happened in 015 over the weekend:

• Four people were killed and 23 others injured in weekend shootings across the city, many of which erupted on the West Side during a chaotic social media-inspired block party, Chicago police said.

  In the block party attacks, two people were killed and seven others wounded in a matter of four hours within a mile of each other on the West Side. The party, organized by a social media influencer, saw hundreds of people crowding the streets, some of whom jumped atop cars, according to a police report.

The actual reporters over at the Contrarian have some questions about the "social media influencer" who pushed this event (click for larger version):

 

This "Club JRoy" person is your typical anti-police hater supporting defunding and all manner of "progressive" crap....and may turn out to be a CPS employee? 

So if CPS isn't hiding and covering up for more molesters than the Catholic Church, they're out there getting kids shot and killed. 

Double Murderer Charged Again

If only there were some sort of screening process that would study and determine if someone eligible for re-sentencing was actually....you know....deserving of such consideration:

• Less than a year after walking free from a life sentence for a 2003 double murder — a release that came after a scandal-plagued prosecutor championed his resentencing — Dante Brown is back in jail, accused of shooting a security guard in the neck last weekend during a Near West Side.

  Brown, 40, was freed in August 2024 when Judge Michael McHale cut his life term to 20 years, crediting him with time served. His resentencing was pushed by then–Conviction Review Unit chief Michelle Mbekeani, whom McHale later accused of lying in court about her ties to a private company that connected inmates seeking resentencings with defense attorneys.

Oh, it was one of those cases where Crimesha's appointees was steering cases to plaintiff attorneys? 

• The resentencing gained national attention after Mbekeani’s ties to a company called Period that matched inmates with defense attorneys were exposed. McHale accused her of being “duplicitous, incomplete, evasive, and untruthful” when questioned about the venture and said her conduct created an “appearance that something unethical is occurring” in Brown’s case.

  In scathing remarks, McHale said Foxx “set [Mbekeani] up for failure” by allowing her to stay on the case, calling it “shocking” that she didn’t see the conflict coming. 

Well then, nothing will happen.

Did they ever charge the crooked chief with any sort of financial shenanigans? 

Another "Mass" Shooting

For crime being down, there sure are a lot of "mass shootings" around town:

• Five people were wounded in a shooting outside a senior living center in Bronzeville on Monday afternoon, Chicago police said.

  Officers responded to a call in the 700 block of East 43rd Street at 3:27 p.m. and found the five victims, police said. All five were taken to University of Chicago Medical Center.

  The shooting happened near the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Center and Judge Slater Apartments, a senior residence.

Old people can't move out of the way as fast, so that's probably why so many got hit.

The only thing definitely down are homicides - it's hard to hide a dead body after all. Trust us, we've tried.

But with the statistical manipulation that's been going on for years, locally and nationally, we don't trust the numbers they come up with. Talking with people on the street the ending years of our careers, they related that they hadn't felt as unsafe as they did these days. Add in the undercharging, the downgrading, the long response times and discouragement of actual arrests and you have a perfect storm of "crime is down" bullshit.

 

Crime is Still Down!

That's the advantage of a slow start to the year - the likelihood of crime ever catching up is slim:

• Four people were killed and 18 others injured in weekend shootings across the city, including a mass shooting in Austin that left one person dead and five wounded, Chicago police said.

  Two shootings left nine people injured and one person dead in Ald. Jason Ervin’s 28th Ward on the West Side. Ervin said the communities he represents were “shattered by an unacceptable level of violence” in the attacks early Sunday morning. He called on members of the community to help police identify suspects in the weekend violence.

  “My heart goes out to the families of the victims and to all those whose lives have been changed by this senseless violence,” Ervin said in a statement Sunday afternoon. “The West Side of Chicago is home to strong, resilient people who deserve to live without fear. We must stand together, reject this violence and commit ourselves to creating a safer future for every resident.”

And generous Jason...you forgot "generous."

And on the tail end of the violence in 015, a commentator writes:

• The 2 mass shootings and the city wide 10-1 with close to 1000 people in the street will never make it to the media. The rain in Milwaukee is more important. A foot chase in Aurora is the top crime on Sunday morning. 

The "media" have their marching orders, from the Machine, from the CTU, and from the left.

DC Crime Lies Exposed

We wrote about crap like this for years, how NYPD lied constantly via CompStat, how Cline and then McCarthy imported the statistical shenanigans to Chicago and the politicians at it up, running on a constant publicity tour of "crime is down" despite the numbers showing nothing of the sort:

• As attention has turned to Washington, DC and crime in the district in the wake of a former DOGE employee being attacked, it has been revealed that a commander with the Metropolitan Police Department was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May after being accused of falsifying crime data.

  Commander Michael Pulliam was placed on leave and under investigation for questionable changes to crime data, five law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told NBC 4. Pulliam was the commander of the 3rd District, which patrols the Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights neighborhoods.

Tens of dozens of SCC posts, all sourced and backed by and linked to hard data. A former NYPD boss even wrote a book about it which we told everyone to read.

And now someone is being held accountable for the lies that have become standard practice in democrat controlled cities. 

Something must have changed? 

Forgotten Story

Remember the judge (Walton) in the Temple case, claiming she was getting threats from persons she claimed were police officers? 

Threats that were never documented? 

Threats that were never brought to the attention of COPA for investigation? 

Threats that were never even brought to the Sheriffs Protection  Detail that is in charge of judicial security, both at the court house AND in the event of an actual threat, the judges home?

Any media types wondering why a "threatened" judge is so unprotected? Every single day we open up the news websites wondering if today is the day we'll read about her untimely demise.

Her luck must be holding out. 

 

National Laughingstock

New York City's democratic party recently nominated a "progressive socialist islamist" who wants to defund police, tax people who can afford to move out, drive businesses from the city, and open government controlled grocery stores.

And Andrew Cuomo is warning New Yorkers to look at Chicago to see what future awaits them:

• Chicago’s budget woes under far-left Mayor Brandon Johnson should serve as warning to New Yorkers planning to back socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid.

  “Chicago is proof that incompetent leadership can turn a deep-dish city into a half-baked mess,” ex-Gov Andrew Cuomo wrote on X Friday.

This after the Wall Street Journal labeled Conehead "America's worst mayor."

He has now devolved into a punchline. 

Swing and a Miss

Madigan loses his first attempt to avoid prison while his appeals move forward:

• Former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan’s request to remain free while appealing his conviction has been denied by the judge who sentenced him earlier this year to 7½ years in prison.

  U.S. District Judge John Blakey wrote in a 44-page ruling that Madigan failed to raise a “substantial” question of law that would result in a reversal or new trial on all counts for which the former speaker faces imprisonment in two months.

  “The fate of Madigan’s entire motion” actually rides on “routine, and meritless” objections to his wire fraud convictions, the judge wrote, adding that the former speaker “clings to false hope.”

  “Frankly, Madigan does not come close to meeting this high burden, and thus, even if he were able to prevail on all issues directed at his other counts of conviction, he would still have to serve the 90-month concurrent sentences he received,” Blakey explained.

13 October is the big day.

Tick Tock Mike. Tick Tock. 

Not a Good Look

In the hallway at Branch 38 the other day, right outside the States Attorneys' Office:

DOA? Drug addict? Victim or witness catching a few Zzzz's?

These are secured buildings and places of business, right?