Crap Reporting as Usual

The usual anti-police hack over at WTTW:

• Chicago police officers disproportionately used force against Black Chicagoans, even when considering they are more likely to be arrested or suspected of committing a crime in the city, according to the results of a court-ordered, first-of-its-kind study that examined four years of data.

  CPD officers also disproportionately used force against Latino Chicagoans, as compared with White Chicagoans, according to the study. In addition, CPD officers used greater levels of force against both Black and Latino Chicagoans than White Chicagoans, according to the study.

  The study, conducted by social scientists from the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Pennsylvania hired by CPD brass and crafted with the approval of a court-appointed monitoring team, blamed “systemic factors” for the disparity, not the actions of individual officers.

  The study also found that the number of times CPD officers used force against Black and Latino Chicagoans “rose significantly toward the end of 2023,” according to the study, which did not attempt to determine the reason behind that increase.

You know who else didn't "attempt to determine the reason behind that increase"?

• the "reporter"

Here's a clue:

 And that's just shootings - the stats hold across most categories of crime regardless.

And when criminals decide to break the law, avoiding apprehension and accountability is at the top of their list, which often involves resisting arrest....you know, using force against Police Officers....who are then required to fill out all sorts of forms which are used by the "social scientists" to claim there's something "disproportionate" about cops defending themselves and using force to defeat an arrest. 

Force that is completely LEGAL and AUTHORIZED by State Law by the way.

And then the media hacks spin it (again) as "disproportionate" while ignoring the inconvenient fact that the vast majority of crime (95%) is committed by two particular groups for whatever reasons and the other group tends to obey police commands when arrested.

You still don't hate the media enough. 

Death Spiral Accelerates

Surprisingly, parts of the media continue to cover the death spiral of downtown Chicago:

• Office towers that once sold for hundreds of millions of dollars are now changing hands at discounts of 70%, 80%, even 90% across major U.S. cities, as higher interest rates and remote work reshape demand for downtown space.

  Few places illustrate the shift more starkly than Chicago. There, the markdowns span every era of development, according to figures first tweeted out by Nightingale Associates.

  A century-old office building in the city’s historic Printing House Row district, 401 S. State St., recently sold for just $4.2 million, down from $68.1 million in 2016, a 94% drop.

  The prominent Loop tower at 311 S. Wacker Drive traded at an 85% discount, selling for $45 million compared with $302 million in 2014.

  Even newer, high-profile properties have not been immune. Boeing’s long-term lease interest in 100 N. Riverside Plaza, not the tower itself, sold for $22 million, down from $165 million in 2005, an 87% decline.

  And at 300 W. Adams St., a leasehold interest in the building changed hands for just $4 million, compared with $51 million in 2012 — a 92% discount.

Those four buildings alone have lost over half-a-billion dollars in value, part of a massive hole in Chicago tax revenues for commercial properties. Guess who makes up the shortfall?

• residential property owners who just got hammered citywide 

This isn't all Conehead's fault and it part of an emerging national trend. But he's done less than zero to ameliorate, alleviate or recover from this downturn....and neither has Fata$$, who wants to run on his "successful" governorship.

Light Posting

Bunch of stuff going on this week, so please excuse any delays in comment moderation or posting.

We'll be around. 

Tunnels to Towers Fundraiser

From our e-mail:

• As you [may be] aware T2T is a national non-profit that helps America's heroes by providing mortgage free homes to Gold Star and fallen first responder families with young children and by building specially-adapted smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders. To date, T2T has provided support to many first responders as well as families of those who lost their lives across the country and have supported several families in the Chicago area. T2T is currently in the process of providing Chicago Police officer Carlos Yanez Jr. with a customized smart home that will accommodate his injuries suffered in the line of duty. T2T has also paid off mortgages for Chicago Police officers that have been killed in the line of duty.

  This year the Parade is honored to offer a very special commemorative poster and t-shirt featuring an amazing design by local artist and Chicago firefighter Tim McCarthy, proceeds from the t-shirt and poster will be donated to T2T.

Poster and attached QR code are below (click for larger picture):

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One Year Left

The next mayoral election is scheduled for 23 February 2027. 

If no one gets 50%+1 then the run off is 06 April 2027.

According to this link, there are four candidates so far:

• Maria Pappas
• Mike Quigley
• Joel Holberg 
• Johnny LoGalbo

Expect more shortly. 

(UPDATE: these are DECLARED candidates. No one has filed Nominating Petitions yet so even these four might not make it to election day. When we said "Expect more shortly" we can almost guarantee that there will be at least ten people running.)

Ghosts of George Ryan

He's not running for governor yet - first he wants to rule over the corpse of Chicago:

• The Illinois official whose agency issued potentially thousands of illegal licenses to truckers, received more than $300,000 in donations from the trucking industry in recent years. The Illinois Secretary of State, Alexi Giannoulias, is in a standoff with the Trump Transportation Department over its review of the state’s commercial drivers licenses (CDLs) which found that 1-in-5 licenses issued by Giannoulias’ office were done so illegally. 

  Giannoulias, a Democrat who is reportedly considering a run for Chicago mayor, is facing scrutiny over his office’s role in issuing those licenses from the Trump administration after a series of high profile big rig crashes across the country that exposed issues in how states issue non-domiciled CDLs to foreign citizens, or in some cases, to illegal immigrants. 

  In Illinois, the U.S. Transportation Department found the Secretary of State’s Office, through the Director of Driver Services, issued illegal CDLs, in some cases, to individuals who have failed to provide evidence of lawful presence, let alone proficiency in managing big rigs.

He already cost taxpayers $383 million from the Broadway bank failure.

Alexi better hope there isn't a Willis family out there somewhere.

What the...?!??

This exists?

 

We were told years ago that the current CPD Star is a copyrighted design, which is why most of the t-shirts and memorabilia that you see all have the 1955 star design - that one isn't copyright protected. We would assume that the shoulder patches were also protected, meaning you can't legally alter them like this.

More importantly, who did this? Because it's either the most arrogant thing we've seen if Heiniken did it himself or it's one of the biggest efforts at ass kissing in the history of ass smoochery. Did someone get a "merit" promotion out of this?

And before someone claims it's a photoshop or A.I., we're told the actual patch it's hanging on the wall of a business establishment frequented by Heiniken himself....at least until later Tuesday (they're closed on Mondays).

Another Conehead Corpse

And it was chilly outside:

• A man was found shot to death behind a Lawndale home on Saturday morning, and Chicago police have no idea when the murder occurred because no one called 911 to report the gunshots that killed him — and the neighborhood’s ShotSpotters were disconnected by the mayor in September 2024.

  Officers were dispatched to the 900 block of South Keeler Avenue around 8:21 a.m. after a 911 caller found the man’s body in a back yard. The victim, who has not yet been identified, appeared to be in his late teens or early 20s and had suffered multiple gunshot wounds.

At least it was in 011 - no one calls the police in 011 and finding dead bodies is a semi-regular occurrence.

It's a Fashion Accessory!

More proof that EM isn't even a mild deterrent to continuing criminal activity:

• A Chicago man was charged Wednesday with illegally possessing a machine gun after allegedly showing up to what he believed was a vehicle repossession job, only to find himself face-to-face with undercover federal agents, court records show.

  Edwin Moreno, 27, also known as “AK,” is accused of possessing a Glock .45-caliber pistol fitted with a machine gun conversion device (MCD) — a device that transforms a semi-automatic handgun into a fully automatic weapon capable of firing multiple rounds with a single trigger pull, according to a federal criminal complaint. Moreno and an unidentified accomplice were allegedly recruited by ATF agents posing as repo men needing armed security. Neither man knew the purported tow operators were actually federal agents, the complaint states.

  What made the encounter all the more striking, according to the complaint, was what happened when the two men were asked how long they could work: both Moreno and his buddy allegedly pulled up their pant legs to reveal electronic monitoring ankle bracelets and then made a point of saying they needed to be back at their respective homes by 9:45 p.m.

We're surprised that ankle monitors don't come with pre-printed tags that post "Hours of Operation" so that your stupider criminals can check the info against their cell phones so they don't miss the deadlines.

More $$$ Disappearing

The Bears want taxpayers to foot the bill for all sorts of infrastructure improvements around their proposed stadium in Arlington Heights. It's one of the larger stumbling blocks to finalizing the move. Indiana has offered to pay for all sorts of new roads into and out of the Hammond site. 

It's a common ask and is usually granted as it's in the city/county/state interest to have paying crowds move in and out efficiently.

In the meantime, Chicago is spending a couple hundred million of unaccounted taxpayer dollars for the Sparklefart Memorial:

• Former President Barack Obama once declared that his presidential center would be a "gift" to Chicago, but taxpayers are on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in hidden costs related to the beleaguered project.

  A Fox News Digital investigation shows taxpayers are now stuck footing the bill for surging public infrastructure costs required to support the project — and no government agency can provide an accounting of the total public cost, despite months of queries and FOIA requests. 

The "endowment" that was supposed to be funded to the tune of $470 million to protect taxpayers from exactly this is currently funded at....one single million dollars. 

We're all for increasing the tax base so as to fund necessary government services in a reasonable and sustainable manner. But driving away a tax and job generator like a major sports team while building a money-sponge of a "library" that isn't an actual repository of archival materials seems counterproductive to say the least.

Sergeants Promoted

Someone said there's a list of fifty floating around?

Email it here and we'll post it.

UPDATE: This is all we've gotten and it's barely readable with a magnifying glass:

We can't post what we don't have and we don't have a good pic of the list. This is a phone picture from a computer screen at a poor angle

If someone has a better version or scan NOT taken from a computer screen shot, pass it along. We used to download a .pdf, email it to ourselves, and convert it to a displayable format.

Hits Keep Coming

Oversight seems non-existent for the connected:

• The Chicago cop who city officials say unintentionally shot and killed his partner during a foot pursuit last summer had previously told his bosses that he “inadvertently” fired his Taser after a high-speed car chase he failed to initially report a year earlier.

  The car chase ended when the driver of a fleeing Jeep hit the train crossing at 89th Street so fast that it flew into the air and then crashed into six cars, according to records obtained by Illinois Answers Project and the Chicago Sun-Times. No one was seriously injured.

This ended up being a momentary hiccup on the path to a Tact spot, stymied but then approved by Heiniken after two recommendations from Tate.

We've got nothing left to say about this walking disaster, but the Department is going to be painted with this failure for years. 

Hope on the Horizon!

And it only took Cleveland eleven years:

• Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the City of Cleveland jointly filed a motion to terminate the 2015 police consent decree in the case of United States v. City of Cleveland, marking the parties’ recognition of more than a decade-long, successful effort to reform the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP). CDP now has resolved the DOJ’s 2014 findings about constitutional policing. CDP has implemented court-approved policies and training covering use of force, searches and seizures, misconduct investigations, community policing, and other areas — all resulting in contemporary assessments showing CDP now polices Cleveland constitutionally.

Of course, this was an actual "Consent Decree," not some cobbled-together make-work connected-democrat contractor money waster.

CPD still has twenty or so years to go. 

Jail is Dangerous?

Who would have thought?

• The death of a Cook County Jail inmate last fall is raising questions about whether staff could have done more to save him after the medical examiner’s office ruled his death a homicide.

  Martinez Duncan, 24, died on the evening of Nov. 20 after his cellmate started a fire inside their locked cell according to a Cook County sheriff’s office spokesperson.

  A preliminary review found the fire was caused by a lit wick, or “a smoldering portion of tightly wound toilet paper commonly used to smoke illegal drugs,” the sheriff’s office said.

  Duncan and his cellmate were removed from their cell as jail staff attempted to put out the fire, the spokesperson said in a statement. They were then cuffed and taken to a holding area to receive medical care. After that, the staff left the holding area to tend to the fire.

  In the meantime, “Duncan’s body slumped forward in the holding area and remained in that position until correctional staff and medical staff returned,” the spokesperson said.

So is this a positional asphyxia death or smoke inhalation aggravated by health issues?

And does it count against Chicago's running totals from last year?

We were stretching to find stuff interesting enough to write about, so this made it. 

Where's Barz?

Anyone surprised? We certainly aren't:

• It's a decade-long issue that Chicagoans have sought accountability for: Drivers of color, many of whom have now filed lawsuits, allege they were subjected to pretextual traffic stops, or stops turned searches to investigate a crime that has nothing to do with the traffic violation they were pulled over for.

  Members of one Chicago police tactical team on the near north side - the 1863 tactical team -- have faced the most misconduct complaints surrounding this type of enforcement than any other, according to the city's police watchdog agency.

  And after a year-long investigation into the eight-person 1863 tactical team, the ABC7 I-Team has learned through court and public records that four members have been relieved of police powers, and two others, including the team's sergeant, have been reassigned to other parts of the city, leaving only two members still working in the 18th District.

The one re-assignment (according to comments) is to the usually desirable Gang Investigation Section, so not a penalty by any means.

Missing from any accountability - supervisors who demanded (and got) thousands of street stops, making promises to keep low seniority officers off of midnights in exchange for the TSSSSSSS cards that they passed off as crime fighting and used to grease their way to bigger and better things before coasting to cushy retirement gigs.

All those promises mean diddly-squat now - none survived the career of the now retired exempt(s).

In the meantime, Officers, raise your right hand, and please list your assets for the Court. 

You have our sympathies, but you were warned. 

Threading the Needle

O'Neill-Burke was in a difficult spot. As part of the demo-socialist-communist party, she was under orders to fight everything Trump in service of the party....like a cult.

But being a somewhat intelligent person who knows more of the Law than most, she was hesitant to but into the brainwashed response that blue-state $hitholes are running with. 

She was therefore judged to be insufficiently insurrection-y and was taking a beating in the media. So now she has released a "blueprint" for "accountability" that gets her some cover from the left while couching it in terms that might fool stupid people, but broadcasts to the Feds that there won't be much she can actually do:

• The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office unveiled a sweeping new protocol Thursday to pursue criminal charges against federal immigration agents who use unlawful force, but a close reading of the document makes clear that actually prosecuting a federal agent in state court faces enormous legal obstacles that could prevent any case from ever reaching a jury.

  State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said her office adopted the Federal Immigration Enforcement Action Response Protocol to prepare for what she called an unprecedented situation: the possibility of bringing state felony charges against a federal immigration officer for on-duty conduct. The protocol’s development was prompted, Burke’s office said, by an immigration surge in Minneapolis in which agents fatally shot two civilians in separate incidents.

  “No one is above the law — including both ICE agents and prosecutors,” Burke said in a statement. “If a federal law enforcement agent commits a crime, my office will not hesitate to act, in accordance with state law.”

  But the new six-page protocol devotes significant space to cataloguing the very legal doctrines that could make the prosecution of a federal agent nearly impossible and candidly acknowledges at least some of those limitations.

It's a nice attempt, but she should expect a number of primary challengers in a few years.

Did S#$% Just Get Real?

A bunch of nervous people at all levels of Illinois government all of the sudden:

• The Chicago Bears have released a new statement on a potential new stadium as Indiana lawmakers moved forward with a bill to bring the team to Hammond.

  The Bears said in a statement, "The passage of SB 27 would mark the most meaningful step forward in our stadium planning efforts to date. We are committed to finishing the remaining site-specific necessary due diligence to support our vision to build a world-class stadium near the Wolf Lake area in Hammond, Indiana. We appreciate the leadership shown by Governor Braun, Speaker Huston, Senator Mishler and members of the Indiana General Assembly in establishing this critical framework and path forward to deliver a premier venue for all of Chicagoland and a destination for Bears fans and visitors from across the globe. We value our partnership and look forward to continuing to build our working relationship together."

  Thursday morning legislators voted unanimously to push a bill out of the Ways and Means Committee. The bill would create the Northwest Indiana Stadium authority similar to Illinois Sports Facilities Authority. This could convince the Chicago Bears to cross state line and build a new stadium.

Fata$$ just wanted them to stay in Illinois, but anything to diminish the power of the Chicago / Cook County pols was fine with him.

Prickwrinkle was fine standing by the sidelines because the Arlington Heights Bears would still have been in Cook County. 

No one was listening to Conehead who continues to cement his place at the bottom of mayoral history and the bottom of the political pecking order. 

And here comes Indiana with tax breaks, infrastructure improvements and a pro-business approach.

We still think it's a long shot, but anything to make Illinois dems nervous is golden. Plus, we can see the political ads being written for the next election painting dems as chasing the most storied franchise out of town and having to raise taxes (again) to make up for the accompanying massive revenue shortfalls. 

Communism Works (as expected)

And as predicted:

• The people of New York City got a good taste of communism earlier this week months after electing Marxist Zohran Mamdani for mayor.

  As Fox News reported, a pop-up shop opened up on Sunday for five days in the West Village to offer free groceries to impoverished New Yorkers and people simply looking for an easy lunch. The outlet notes this comes Mayor Mamdani advanced one of his key campaign promises: city-run grocery stores aimed at lowering food costs.

  The store, which is called The Polymarket, was opened by a cryptocurrency-based prediction market with the same name. The Polymarket offered yellow ticket granting NYC residents entry to the little store.

  Much like communist countries like Cuba, lines grew quite long in a hurry with residents across all five New York City boroughs flocked to get some ‘free’ stuff.

  What happened next was entirely predictable to anyone who understands basic economics. The store ran out of tickets and food, while several individuals decided to cut in line.

Anyone reading grow up in the 60s, 70s and 80s? Remember the video coming out of the old USSR of bread lines and empty store shelves? 

And when someone successfully defected to the USA, their bewildered amazement at the grocery stores here, that someone would have choices of eight types of toilet paper, a dozen different razor blades and forty selections of breakfast cereal.

History might not repeat, but it often rhymes.

Another Conehead Corpse

This time someone reported the gunfire, but the body was out there for a few hours anyway:

• A woman was found shot to death on the side of a gravel road on Chicago’s Far South Side Tuesday afternoon, her body discovered along a remote, wooded stretch near the Little Calumet River — an area that until recently was monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter gunshot detection network.

  A Department of Streets and Sanitation crew found the woman around 12:15 p.m. in the 600 block of East 134th Place.

Ah yes....Alligator Gardens. Many a fond memory of that part of town. 

Nice to see nothing has changed

Get Ready for More Taxes

Here comes another completely avoidable budget shortfall that Fata$$ will fill with more taxes:

• U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today exposed that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)’s review of Illinois’ non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) program found nearly 1-in-5 licenses to have been issued illegally. Illinois has 30 days to come into compliance and revoke the illegally issued licenses—or risk losing $128 million in federal highway funding.  

  “I need our state partners to understand that they work for the American people, not illegal immigrants who broke the law illegally entering our country and continue to break it by operating massive big rigs without the proper qualifications,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy. “Biden and Buttigieg forced Americans to share their roads with unqualified and unvetted foreign drivers, but the Trump Administration is putting the needs of American families first where they belong.” 

Twenty percent of CDL are issued / have been issued to ILLEGAL ALIENS. 

Here's a novel idea - how about Illinois politicians look out for....Illinois citizens? You know, comply with common sense laws meant to keep roads safe and citizens alive? Instead of catering to ILLEGAL ALIENS who shouldn't be in the Country, let alone having their names and addresses be used for illegally voting.

(oh, did we say that part out loud?)

Porkulous is running on some sort of "affordability" platform with his most recent budget. It's rapidly becoming obvious that Illinois will continue to be unaffordable to live in or run a business model in. 

Big Apple - Big Disaster

Everyone with a brain warned about this - now New Yorkers will reap the whirlwind:

• New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is looking to get the Big Apple on a tighter budget, and seems to see cuts to the New York Police Department (NYPD) as a way of getting the city back on track.

  Mamdani's predecessor, Mayor Eric Adams, proposed at the end of his term that the city hire 5,000 more NYPD officers. However, upon entering office, Mamdani moved to cancel all orders signed by Adams following his Sept. 26, 2024, indictment. This included the proposed NYPD personnel increase.

  Under Adams' plan, the NYPD was set to add 300 officers in July 2026, growing to 2,500 in July 2027 and eventually increasing to 5,000 additional officers annually in July 2028. The Adams plan allowed the NYPD to deploy approximately 40,000 officers to the streets, while Mamdani's plan caps the number closer to its current level of around 35,000.

  Additionally, in the preliminary FY 2027 budget, it notes the importance of "significantly reducing current vacancies," which could include reductions in funding for the NYPD based on unfilled positions. The Gothamist, a New York-based publication, noted that Mamdani's budget proposes a $22 million decrease in the NYPD's $6.4 billion budget next year.

NYPD runs through Officers at a far higher rate than CPD does and their Academy churn out thousands of Officers at a time to keep up with the turnover.

Cutting those 5,000 will put the entire Department behind the eight-ball if retirements maintain current levels....or increase (which is expected to do as more of the "progressive socialist" agenda is implemented - decreased prosecutions and reduced sentences).

New York in the 1970s was a disaster. This promises to be worse. 

Wilding Season Already?

We barely got the Valentine's Day decorations down:

• A 14-year-old boy was shot Monday night after a gathering of teenagers turned violent in the Loop.

  The Chicago Police Department had already deployed a unit of officers to the area in anticipation of the gathering when a 911 caller reported teenagers fighting near Washington and Madison streets around 8:35 p.m. Officers responding to that call reported shots fired about three minutes later.

  Police quickly located the victim, a 14-year-old boy, at the corner of Washington and Wabash. According to CPD, the boy was standing in the first block of East Washington Street when someone opened fire, striking him in the left foot. Officers recovered two shell casings at the scene. The boy was transported to Lurie Children’s Hospital in fair condition.

  CPD did not release a description of the suspected gunman, and no arrests have been announced in connection with the shooting.

It seems to come earlier and earlier every year.

Good Read

Has the CTU finally become politically toxic? 

Prickwrinkle is acting like it:

• Illinois primary season is in full swing, with Election Day just a month away.

  The political shakeup is unprecedented in the Chicago area.

  Five open congressional seats, plus an open seat for U.S. Senate, several open seats in the state House and Senate, and a competitive race for Cook County board president.

  All will largely be decided by the March 17 Democratic primary.

  And the latter saw one of the most interesting developments of any race last week, with news of an auspicious endorsement. Or lack thereof.

  The Chicago Tribune’s Alice Yin reported that Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle did not seek an endorsement from the Chicago Teachers Union.

An interesting development to be sure.

Reporter Austin Berg outlines exactly how the CTU has become mired in controversy and scandal with links and charts outlining most if not all of it.

Give it a read. 

Blue State Disaster

Well this is appalling:

• From the State of Washington - 

  Late Friday night, House Democrats voted to raid $4 billion from the law enforcement and firefighter pension plan to cover the multi-billion-dollar budget deficit they created.

  Every Republican in the state House voted against House Bill 2034.

  Democrats plan to deposit $569 million in the Climate Commitment Account.

No idea what their pensions look like, but given it's a blue state and lousy with panti-fa supporters, we imagine it ain't the greatest - and now it just got worse.

See Ya!

There will be tons of praise in the media today for the most divisive figures of the 20th century. 

But hopefully, someone remembers the book "Shakedown" by Timmerman that exposed the inner workings of the money grifting operation he founded and this gem:

 The string pullers with their puppet.

Anyone Want This Job?

This might explain part of the reason we have so many crooked, incompetent and unqualified judges on the bench here:

• On paper, Cook County circuit judge is a great job. They make $258,000 a year, hold extraordinary power, and almost never get fired or even disciplined.

  But fewer and fewer attorneys are seeking the post.

  For the second straight judicial primary election, less than half of the seats up for grabs March 17 drew more than one candidate, continuing a decadeslong slide in competition. Observers have cited factors including the cost of campaigning, increased public scrutiny on judicial elections, and a Democratic Party that dominates local politics and discourages competition against its chosen candidates.

So few people want a job that pays over a quarter-million a year?

That's how you end up with candidates like this:

• All four vacancies in the 13th subcircuit — which covers the far Northwest suburbs — are uncontested. The candidate for one of those seats is Brittany Michelle Pedersen, who has been charged with driving under the influence three times, though one case was dismissed and two were reduced to reckless driving. Pedersen ran unsuccessfully for judge in Kane County in 2020 and 2022, receiving negative ratings from the Illinois State Bar Association, before moving in with her mother in Cook County and running again.

  She told Injustice Watch, “I believe that people deserve second chances, and third chances, and maybe sometimes a fourth.”

If that's what she thinks for after racking up three DUI arrests for herself, imagine what she'd be releasing back onto the streets.

Or like the incompetent Tyria Walton leveling accusations that she was threatened by CPD Officers, but never filed a complaint, nor registered the threat with Cook County Sheriffs Protective Detail and somehow coerced the FOP president to remain silent after this egregious slander. 

Vote "NO" on all judges all the time. 

A Republican Created?

One wonder if this might convert her thinking? 

• A 7-time convicted felon violently attacked a television news reporter as she sat in her SUV in the Loop and continued the assault until passers-by teamed up to pull him off the victim, prosecutors said.

  At about 12:46 p.m. on January 2, the veteran reporter was sitting in her luxury SUV in the 200 block of North State Street, just south of Wacker Drive, when Noah Johnson, 43, allegedly walked up and opened her driver’s door.

  Johnson, without saying a word, proceeded to punch the reporter in the face as the victim honked her horn, hoping to get someone’s attention, according to a Chicago police report. Prosecutors allege Johnson tried to pull the reporter out of her car and that the attack was so violent it dislodged the victim’s salivary gland. While Johnson did not say anything as he carried out the attack, he did mumble to himself and growl at the victim, the report stated. 

Gee, if only the reporter had a gun.

Or supported locking up SEVEN TIME CONVICTED FELONS so that they weren't free to continue to wreak havoc on the streets.

But it would probably take far more than simple mugging to convert a libtard. 

One....Maybe More

Another Illinois Congressional seat is on the way out:

• Despite three straight years of population growth, Illinois lost nearly 445,000 people since 2020. That puts it on track to lose a congressional seat in 2030 when new maps are drawn.

  The COVID-19 pandemic created a backlog of visa applications from 2021 to 2023. That period under former President Joe Biden had international immigration increases offset fewer births and more deaths among aging Baby Boomers, according to the Brennan Center.

  The trend slowed starting in 2024. The second Trump term has “pursued much more restrictive immigration policies, the contours of which are still evolving,” as people being admitted for humanitarian reasons has been reduced and deportation efforts have increased. 

And if a couple of current bills in the pipeline get passed, ILLEGAL ALIENS will not be counted in the census and will not count toward representation. That could jeopardize yet another spot, which fully explains (and pretty much proves) the Great Replacement theory and why democrats no longer trust the black community to vote for who they're told to vote for.

Still Losing Business

Cionehead has to be under orders to bankrupt the city:

• Office space vacancies have soared to 28.2 percent in Chicago, which is higher than the vacancy rate from before the pandemic. The latest contraction marks the 14th straight quarter of rising vacancies, according to The Center Square.

  Wirepoints Executive Editor Mark Glennon says that the "anti-business attitude" in Brandon Johnson's City Hall is strangling the business sector and costing the city thousands of jobs.

  "You never see any effort to make life easier for employers here. The state of Illinois is like one big oppressive intermeddling HR department with countless rules and regulations that strangle people," Glennon told Center Square.

  ‍Glennon added the continued cratering of Chicago's businesses means trouble for the city itself. Fewer businesses mean fewer jobs and subsequently fewer taxes returned to the city, too. Worse, it is the city's homeowners that will hurt the most in the long run.

And this is directly responsible for the property taxes on the west and south sides finally catching up with the rest of Chicago.

Rehashing previous reports, the list of companies leaving is impressive, just in terms of market capital leaving town:

• ....Beam Suntory, Boeing, Caterpillar, Citadel, Guggenheim Partners, PEAK6 Investments, Schumacher Electric Corp., SC Johnson, TTX Company, Tyson Foods, United Airlines, Walgreens Boots Alliance, and many others.

And this number just beggars the imagination:

• Chicago's famed Magnificent Mile was hardest hit, too, going from 1,600 registered businesses to only 784 in 2024 -- that's a 51 percent drop.

Most of those are retail establishments, but there are attached support businesses as well (supply, restaurants, etc).

Go read it all. 

Then think about that pension buyout option they're talking about in Springfield. 

The Smoking Gun

An amusing website that scours public crime records for odd or dramatic crimes. This one was forwarded to us along with a comment wondering if this would be more appropriately handled by social workers rather than the police:

• Domestic disputes that require police intervention are never a laughing matter.

  Unless, of course, two siblings are threatening to kill each other over “who ate the last sticky bun.”

  Police responded Monday afternoon to a Williamsport, Pennsylvania residence to handle “a domestic in progress, no weapons, no intoxication,” according to dispatch audio.

  Officers were told the confrontation “is between siblings over who ate the last sticky bun. Now they’re threatening to kill each other.”

(Keesing Bandit warning)

Homemade sticky buns are awesome. Our grandmothers and great grandmothers had recipes that have (unfortunately) been lost to history with their passing. The sticky buns in question for this case appear to be mass produced items.

But the question posed by our emailer is legit - no weapons, no intoxication. Are police even needed for verbal threats that aren't going to be prosecuted? 

Must be Election Season

You can tell because democrats are pretending they care about the center:

• While in Germany for the Munich Security Conference, Hillary Clinton participated in a panel titled, “The West-West Divide: What Remains of Common Values.”

  During the panel, Clinton appeared to take a stronger approach to her previous stance on border security.

  “There is a legitimate reason to have a debate about things like migration,” Clinton said.

  “It went too far, it’s been disruptive and destabilizing, and it needs to be fixed in a humane way with secure borders that don’t torture and kill people and how we’re going to have a strong family structure because it is at the base of civilization,” she added.

So just ignore the previous four years of open borders, tens of millions of un-vetted ILLEGAL ALIENS released into the country and the countless hundreds of billions of tax dollars that weren't spent on American citizens.

And just to make sure, guess who's undercutting their front runner?

• Barack Obama took a thinly-veiled jab at California Gov. Gavin Newsom over the homeless “atrocity” in Los Angeles Saturday.

  During a conversation with YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen, Obama explained: “We should recognize that the average person doesn’t want to have to navigate around a tent city in the middle of downtown.

  ”That’s a losing political strategy.”

So now homelessness is bad and it's open season on Newscum.

Watch for the new Virginia governor Spanberger to be the new face of the party. Then remember she worked for the CIA, is a long time globalist who thinks Europe is something to emulate, and uncontrolled immigration is a good thing.

Radios Compromise TASERs?

This is suddenly an issue? (click for larger image):

These are the ten-shot TASERs? 

We didn't get trained in those. But we would note that as more and more electronics are carried by Officers or in close proximity to Officers (body cams, radios, in-car cams, in-car microphones, phones that link to the PDTs, not to mention personal cell phones), the possibility of electronic conflicts would likely skyrocket.

One also has to wonder if the previous studies (and conspiracy theories) regarding electromagnetic effects on health need a re-visiting.

Excessive School Force

We had no idea that CPS had a Use of Force policy!

• A special education assistant at a South Side elementary school has been charged with aggravated battery of a child after prosecutors said she placed an 8-year-old student in a chokehold and threw him to the lunchroom floor, causing serious injuries.

  Tamika Odeh, 44, is charged with aggravated battery of a child younger than 13 causing great bodily harm in connection with an incident at Parker Elementary School, 6800 South Stewart Avenue in Englewood.

  In a detention petition, prosecutors said Odeh placed the 8-year-old student in a chokehold and threw him to the ground on November 3 while inside the school. The boy struck his head on a chair, suffering what prosecutors described as “serious neck injuries” that required medical treatment at a hospital.

Of course, she was released on no bail. 

Amusingly, this was revealed in the Arrest Report:

• In an unrelated note, the CPD arrest report listed a home address for Odeh in suburban Oak Lawn. With limited exceptions, all CPS employees hired on or after November 20, 1996, must live in the city of Chicago within six months of becoming school district employees. An individual familiar with the matter told CWB Chicago that Odeh lists a Chicago address in her CPS personnel file.

We'll bet the Inspector General will be all over that residency discrepancy.

The City That "Works"

Hiring D.E.I. accountants again?

• Hundreds of Chicago firefighters and paramedics are still waiting for four years’ worth of retroactive pay raises after Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration fumbled the ball in distributing the checks.

  Pat Cleary, president of the Chicago firefighters union, said the city’s failure to deliver back pay checks by the Dec. 30 deadline means the city must pay 4.5% annual interest on payments as high as $35,000.

  The problem started when the city waited until mid-January — at least two weeks after the deadline — “to start cutting checks for anybody,” Cleary said. When checks were finally in the mail, the Johnson administration “realized that they screwed up and didn’t take out pension deductions.”

Has there ever been a retro check that didn't have to be recalculated, amended and corrections issued either with additional checks or claw-backs by the City?

We can't think of a single one that didn't have issues, and this is after years of calculations and endless automation of accounting procedures.