Blue on Blue Violence

If you are paying attention, 90%-plus of the political violence in the country comes from the left. Yesterday was no exception:

• A Minnesota state representative and her husband were shot and killed, and a state senator and his wife were shot and wounded in an "act of targeted political violence" at their homes early Saturday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said.

  A manhunt is now underway for the gunman who authorities said was impersonating a police officer. Authorities said they've identified 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter as a suspect.

The shooter was appointed to a political post by the previous governor (a democrat) and re-appointed by the current governor (another democrat). He had posters in his car for the marches today.

So why shoot fellow democrats? Well, it seems both of them voted with Republicans last week to deny medical coverage to illegal aliens, saving Minnesota taxpayers millions of dollars. 

You can't have democrats voting contrary to the party line and actually supporting policies that their constituents want. That might lead to actual democracy and would spell DOOM for the party that opposes "kings"....after they ran a presidential candidate who received exactly zero primary votes.

Oh, and the Minnesota authorities said they wouldn't be releasing the "manifesto" they found in the shooters car, and everyone knows what that means. 

Remember, Porky and Conehead and dozens of other democrats have been advocating violence, directly and indirectly, for months now, forgetting that the knife cuts both ways, more so among the party with the vast majority of mentally ill followers.

Slow Chase

From an e-mailer:

• Police in South Carolina engaged in a not-so-hot pursuit as they chased a tractor excavator down a main highway for more than an hour at the speed an average adult walks.

  The chase reached speeds of 3 mph (4.8 kph) early Sunday morning in North Charleston, police said.

  Officers on a different call saw the big piece of construction equipment with treads and a shovel in front go across U.S. Highway 78 around 3:30 a.m., North Charleston Police wrote in their report.

  A few minutes later, they got a burglary call from a business that was heavily damaged and saw the excavator slowly heading away, police said.

Lucky it wasn't Killdozer II.

In the meantime, just assume CPD would have terminated this chase five or six times over. 

Open Post for Sunday

 Vote democrat for more!

They hate American citizens, especially those who can think for themselves.

Stop Giving Them Your Money

Barely a week since an Officer was tragically killed, and this is what happens when you order a cup of coffee at one of the downtown Starbucks:

Why anyone would order from Starbucks, we have no idea. They're based out of police-hater central.

And any cop trusting a beverage that got served to them like this is insane. 

Stay Safe Today

Remember, these are paid "protestors."

And they are infiltrated with paid agitators and provocateurs. 

They want confrontation for publicity....and a payout. 

Don't get drawn into something stupid.

Conehead is cancelling your days off to put you in the middle of it all.

Seven is a Lucky Number, Right?

Mike really irritated the judge. He was unrepentant and pretty much insisted he was innocent of all charges....right up until the point the judge told him that he (the judge) didn't have to follow the sentencing recommendation of 12.5 years - the max allowable was 105 years:

• Former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, has been sentenced to 7½ years in prison and a $2.5 million fine on corruption convictions. The 83-year-old will be expected to report to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Oct. 13.

There was also a $2.5 million fine, a fraction of his net worth of $50 million.

So now Mike has four months to either develop an incurable disease, flee the country or try to figure out how to be Burke's bunkmate for a couple years.

The ACLU is Sad

A man has got to know his limitations:

• Police Supt. Larry Snelling told a federal judge this week that he would “never use” the “snap curfew” power that some Chicago City Council members are pushing to give him.

  Speaking at a hearing on the city’s court-mandated police reform efforts, Snelling said the controversial tool is “not something that I asked for or that I need.”

  Snelling’s comments, reported in a court transcript, represent the top cop’s most blunt assessment of the ordinance being pitched by some council members as a solution to violent teen takeovers.

  At the regularly scheduled hearing, young people involved in monitoring the federal consent decree spoke out against a proposal the council is expected to vote on next week that would give Snelling the power to implement a curfew with just a 30-minute warning anytime throughout the city.

  Snelling said he is against that particular 30-minute provision as well.

So Larritorious is insisting that this power is something he never asked for, and he'd never use it. 

Or someone explained to him exactly how he was being set up to spend the next ten years in various Federal courtrooms being deposed over and over and over - and NOT as a Use of Force expert. Not the best way to spend your retirement.

Riot Preparation?

Not the CPD though....the other side:

• Weapons Stash Discovered Near Planned Protest Site Raises Alarms Over Saturday Demonstration
  
  
  By John Kugler | SubX.News | 
  June 12, 2025 – 12:30 am
  
  
  Chicago police officers made a disturbing discovery Wednesday night near the site of a planned protest: a hidden weapons cache containing items that could be used to incite riots, including pipes, rocks, umbrellas, gasoline, and what appeared to be a Molotov cocktail.
  
  
  According to multiple reports—including verified scanner traffic and real-time updates from credible police-monitoring Twitter accounts—officers with CPD's foot patrol unit uncovered the stash near Monroe Drive and Lake Shore Drive, in a park area close to mile marker 350.
  
  
  “I’m here with foot patrol near mile marker 350,” one officer can be heard saying in radio audio. “We’re just looking in this park area. We found a possible Molotov cocktail and some other items that could be used during the protest. Just hold us down over here...”
  
  
  This discovery was first reported at 10:26 PM by @ChicagoContrar1, and later confirmed by live scanner updates shared by @CPD1617Scanner at 10:33 PM, noting that the information was “bonafide” and “incredibly dangerous.” 

We know for a fact that there are at least half-a-dozen cameras covering that stretch and some of the more talented SDSC people can link those cameras back to continuous coverage of nearby roads and paths covering miles of vehicle and pedestrian traffic movement, hours at a time.

So are we going to get descriptions of persons and vehicles that may have dropped off these materials? Especially after this story leaked out:

• In a surprising turn of events, the California Democratic Party has found itself embroiled in controversy following revelations from its May 2025 expense report. A significant expenditure highlighted in the report has raised eyebrows and sparked outrage among constituents, particularly during a time when the city of Los Angeles is grappling with intense protests regarding social justice and police reform.

  The focal point of the scrutiny is a notable purchase of bricks made by the California Democratic Party. The decision to acquire these bricks has prompted questions about the party’s priorities and its commitment to addressing the urgent needs of its constituents. Many residents and activists are asking why the party allocated funds for such an unusual item, especially amidst ongoing protests advocating for systemic change.

When confronted, the party leaders said the bricks were for a future construction project. When pressed "What project?" they had no answers. Bricks are usually acquired by the thousands by General Contractors, not party leaders, and certainly not a couple pallets at a time.

So it's kind of obvious the California dem party is buying bricks for rioters to assault federal officers, LAPD, CHP and county sheriffs. Who's to say that isn't happening here also?

Ignorant Dumbass Conehead

Remember, this guy supposedly taught children:

• Chicago’s radical, progressive, Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson told the media on Wednesday that the Trump administration is “what our country would look like had the Confederacy won.”

  The race-obsessed, left-wing mayor railed against the Trump administration after hundreds of protesters flooded the streets of the Windy City in opposition to the president’s lawful immigration enforcement policies. Johnson by turns called Trump a “terrorist” and a “racist” in his comments to the press.

  The mayor with the single worst approval rating in the entire country also reminded the media that he recently said that Trump’s immigration policy is “what terrorism looks like.”

Leaving aside the fact that enforcing the Border Laws of the country is solely a FEDERAL function (as argued and won by Sparklefarts in Arizona v United States) Conehead the Dumbass seems to forget exactly who won the Civil War:

• Lincoln was a ::gasp!:: Republican;
• Jefferson Davis represented Mississippi as a pro-slavery democrat;
• The North (Republican) defeated the South (democrat) thus ending slavery

Pretty much all of the ensuing Civil Rights legislation following the War was introduced and passed by Republicans, in direct defiance of the Dixie-crats (champions of Jim Crow).

And it was Eisenhower, another Republican, who federalized the National Guard and authorized the 101st Airborne to integrate schools when a democrat governor wouldn't let black students in.

But Conehead claims Trump represents Confederate ideas and policies?

How dumb can you get?

Well, we guess he won an election, so there are a bunch of dumber people out there. 

Join the Police - for Free!

We don't mean it's free to join - we mean you'll be working for free!

• A new class of Chicago police recruits has not been paid since they were hired nearly a month ago, their union told NBC Chicago.

  The class of officers, more than 50 in all, has continued their training without pay according to Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara, but at least one has said they are considering leaving the force that they so recently joined.

  The recruits were hired on May 16, according to the union.

People forget that joining isn't exactly free. You have to quit your previous job, and if you're police, you give them two weeks notice.

then you arrive at the Academy and they give you a list of things you have to buy - uniform(s), gym clothes, gun, equipment, dress uniforms (summer and winter). And you have to buy all this from approved vendors, who aren't charging market prices - they're over-charging a tiny little bit. 

All-in-all to join up, you're out-of-pocket a few thousand dollars before you start to see paychecks from the City. Depending on what part of the month you got hired, it could be three weeks. These kids appear to have fallen into that three week gap.

It's also unfortunate that these recruits came on just before a Line of Duty death where they will be utilized as window dressing for an Honors Funeral. That means a full summer uniform in short order and money might be a bit tight, especially after a missed paycheck.

It's one of those things, but it will give the new kids some immediate insight into how much the Department actually cares about you....and that ain't much.

CFD Injured on Vacation

Lucky to be alive actually:

• Paralyzed ten days ago in the middle of a San Francisco triathlon, injured Chicago firefighter Jose Perez is beginning the battle back after multiple surgeries.

  Perez was on the West Coast for the June 1 Escape From Alcatraz Triathlon when he launched himself off a boat, and a freak collision left him face down in the waters near the Golden Gate Bridge.

  “I just felt a big boom,” Perez said. “[I] just hit the back of my head.”

  Perez described the moment over Zoom from his San Francisco hospital bed. Another triathlon swimmer landed on top of him, leaving him paralyzed.

This entire incident sounds like gross negligence on the part of the race organizers - they motored the contestants out into the Bay and then had everyone pile off the boat in an uncontrolled wave, with no separation or metering, and of course, this happened.

He's doing better and has regained some function in his limbs after a spinal procedure, but he's got a year or more of physical therapy ahead of him. No one knows if he'll ever return to full duty.

GoFundMe link here. Best wishes for a complication-free recovery. 

Here a Tax, There a Tax

Gamblers beware:

• FanDuel announced plans Tuesday to slap a $0.50 transaction fee on every online wager placed in Illinois, an additional juice that the sports betting behemoth says it has to squeeze because state lawmakers are saddling sportsbooks with a new tax on every bet they take.

  Legislators who signed off on the first-of-its-kind per-wager tax to help bridge a $1 billion state budget gap say big gambling corporations like DraftKings can afford another dent in their profit margins.

  But after sweeping sports betting tax hikes last year, leaders of the booming industry claim the one-two taxing punch will lead to worse odds — and drive bettors to the black market.

There's a tipping point, where the cost to RUN a business doesn't work out with the cost of DOING business. It's a balancing act.

There are tiny brains who will insist that even if a business is making a single penny in profit, then they will continue to do business....and they ought to be taxed that extra penny. But the fact is, they'll just move their business over the border to someplace that taxes them less, increases their bottom line for shareholders, and expand into untapped markets with friendlier business climates.

We already do most of our food shopping in the suburbs, we fill up the car in another county (remember - gas tax goes up from forty-seven cents on 01 July!), larger appliance purchases are made out-of-state and we're looking into transferring our friends and family cell service to a cabin in the woods.

If there isn't one already, someone will create a work-around in the electronic betting industry. 

Pepperidge Farm Remembers

Remember when CPD used to park squad cars in a reasonably secure location and then assign a couple of Canine Units to patrol the lots so as to prevent vandalism?

Additionally, an unknown number of001 District squad cars suffered slashed tires, broken windows and outside mirrors removed. Given the pool car situation the past few years, are Officers relegated to foot patrol and bus routes? 

Quite the Hypocrisy

Look who got arrested in Los Angeles the other day:

• Authorities released labor leader David Huerta on bond this week, days after his arrest for allegedly obstructing federal officers while protesting an immigration raid in Los Angeles.

  Huerta, the 58-year-old California president of the Service Employees International Union, one of the nation’s largest labor unions, said he remains focused on immigrants detained in LA.

  An advocate for workers and immigrants in Southern California for decades, Huerta has become a flashpoint in an ongoing standoff between federal immigration enforcement officers and protesters.

Remember, these protests aren't about immigrants - they're about ILLEGAL immigrants.

And the head of one of the largest labor unions in the nation is advocating for ILLEGAL aliens who would then be in direct competition for lower-skilled jobs that many LEGAL immigrants want, need and came here LEGALLY to fill.

ILLEGAL aliens drive down wages and drive up housing costs, completely at odds with what a union typically advocates for. 

Kind of makes you wonder why any LEGAL immigrant would support these communists, but hey, vote democrat for more!

Exceptionally Cleared / Closed

Spectacular news out of Humboldt Park:

• A 36-year-old concealed carry permit holder shot and killed an alleged armed robber in Chicago’s Humboldt Park late Tuesday night. CWB Chicago noted the alleged armed robber was 18-years-old and is suspected of being tied to a number of robberies that occurred in the minutes prior to his being shot.

  In one of those encounters “a gunman robbed a man near the corner of Fulton and Kilpatrick in Austin and drove off with the victim’s gray 2025 Toyota Corolla.” In another, “two women were robbed at gunpoint in the 2500 block of West Haddon.”

  FOX 32 reported that the alleged armed robber then approached the 36-year-old concealed carry permit holder with gun drawn “and demanded his belongings.” The concealed carry permit holder pulled his own firearm and opened fire, killing the alleged armed robber at 10:48 p.m. 

  A gray Toyota and the property of the two women from West Haddon were recovered by police.

So that's at least three armed robberies solved by the armed citizen.

CWB has an amusing graphic up:

 

 

As the deceased was a mere eighteen years of age, there's no telling how many future crimes were just cured by this preventative lead-icillin injection.

Thanks Again Fata$$

What's another million in taxpayer money pissed away on illegal aliens?

• Taxpayers will be on the hook for more than $1 million for a giant base camp tent that was supposed to be built to house migrants back in 2023.

  The construction was scrapped halfway through construction, and, at the time the governor vowed taxpayers would not be responsible.

  The payment was slipped into the budget, and Democrats and Republicans were caught off guard. The last-minute push to get the budget deal done by May 31 meant lawmakers did not have time to review it all before voting on it. Tucked inside was a two-line notation about a payment to GardaWorld, the company hired by the state to build the base camp tents.

Once again, the useless legislators attempt to pass all sorts of bullshit bills, virtue signalling and all manner of crap, then they run around the last seventy-two hours of the legislative session and rush through a massive budget bill that no one even reads.

And they act surprised this made it into Law. 

Next up, check out who GardaWorld makes political contributions too this election cycle. 

Predator Convicted

Good riddance:

• A former Chicago police officer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony charges in connection with two incidents of sexual misconduct involving female colleagues — one that occurred at the police training academy and one at a police precinct.

  The case against Eric Tabb was highlighted in an Invisible Institute-ProPublica investigation that found that Chicago police officials have frequently failed to vigorously investigate allegations of sexual misconduct made against city officers.

  Tabb, 35, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated battery in a public place, a Class 3 felony, and was sentenced to 30 months of probation. As part of a plea agreement, Tabb’s charges were reduced and he was required to enroll in a sex offender program.

Probation? Another joke.

Until the exploitative culture at the Academy is eliminated (and strict background checks are reinstated), expecting the Department to thoroughly investigate what has long been acceptable behavior by former and current instructors, especially gym instructors, is a ridiculous expectation.

About Last Night....

So what's the scoop?

There was a protest, everyone knew that:

• A large anti-ICE protest was held Tuesday evening in downtown Chicago.

  Demonstrators started at Federal Plaza and were protesting ICE and other federal agents engaged in the mass deportations happening nationwide.

There was another protest / march also, and the two combined at some point.

Then, this odd report:

• A driver plowed into a group of protesters Tuesday in the Loop, striking at least one pedestrian, as thousands marched through downtown Chicago protesting the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration raids.

  The driver was stuck between police vehicles on State Street. Officers wanted to guide her away from the crowd and asked her to turn right on Monroe Street, but she ignored their orders and turned left, speeding into the crowd.

"...plowed into...." but the Slum Times only mentions one casualty? That's not really "plowed into" by any stretch. That sort of verbiage should be reserved for the European-type islamic terror attacks where fifty and more people are run over, bodies flying through the air and multiple dead bodies in the streets.

The Slum Times also mentions a couple arrests, and we've had a comment or three about Officers being deployed on the Line of March without any sort of protective gear and no reserve force in riot gear in case anything went south. Some reports mention half-a-dozen arrests.

It all sounds like a large protest, a few bad actors and a less-than-impressive response that all worked out.

For the moment.

The Department should be using this as an opportunity to check on their mobilization plan, because if it all goes bad, you don't want to find out the plan is less than adequate in the middle of a full scale riot. The current command staff can't think on their feet, any upper echelon people with experience have been chased away, and as we exited the stage, we noted that lower level white shirts (Lts and Sgts) can't seem to think for themselves in any type of stressful event.

Can Anyone Verify?

This would be par for the course (click for larger version):

And don't forget, Hillard got a job with Taser Inc after he retired.

Reminder

This commentator says you don't have to show up for a cancelled RDO:

• I suggest this every summer. Put in a par form for the day off without pay. There’s nothing they can do and the only downside is that they will add a day onto your retirement date. I only had to do that once in my career and they never messed with me again. if everybody on a watch, did it once they would find themselves in a real pickle. If you don’t take a stand, they will continue to ride roughshod over you. There is great power in unity.

There are a few rumors of a concerted effort to either use this or a Medical Roll call-in, possibly for an undetermined upper respiratory ailment that is supposedly sweeping through China and spreading across the globe. No one wants a repeat of the global plan-demic after all.

The FOP can't advocate for anything like this, but now that we're not subject to any Rules, Regulations, Contract restrictions, General Orders, etc., we can see where this goes. Let us know.

Dumbest Comment Ever

Someone posted this stupidity:

• You do not have a bid if you are a buy back.

This came up during our hiatus, and we regretted not being able to address it at the time.

The Department's contention was that when your day off was cancelled, you had neither a watch nor a day off group, so they could deploy you at will. We believe the FOP lost this in front of the arbitrator, a ninety-something year old Biden clone.

What the actual f#$%? 

• if you don't have a Day Off Group on your actual days off, then what's the point of even scheduling days off?
• if you don't have a Watch, whats the point of bidding for one every year? 
• for that matter, what's the point of having scheduled Start Times if the City can just willy-nilly schedule you for Third Watch or Midnights whenever your non-existent days off come around?

Someone could be working what was their Friday on Third Watch and run up against a cancelled day off, and the City/Department could say, "You're working First Watch on your cancelled day off," meaning it was right back into a squad car for a back-to-back shift. Seventeen hours minimum

And that shift could be anywhere in the city.

You ALWAYS have a Day Off Group, a Watch and a Start Time. That's the point of seniority. Otherwise, the Contract is a joke and you are essentially a slave to the whims of the Department. 

There's a lawsuit in there somewhere. Unless the City wants to pay cops for every off-duty hour spent on-call, blowing up their chances to be with their kids, attend family functions and generally unwind from an increasingly stressful atmosphere, then we're sure a bunch of people would take the overnight approximate 40% raise.

A Strange Rumor

This is what passes (passed?) for firearms training?

• Retired Firearms Instructor here: a YUGE problem with Department training has been the inconsistency of training by various sections.

  Around 2010, the Dept. had been running the In-Service Firearms Training Program. As was my custom, at the conclusion of the training I would debrief the officers in order to allow them to provide input on their experience.

  One officer stated "This training is different than what they taught us at Near North (a CPD training site on Larrabee St. where force-on-force training was conducted with role players using training pistols that fired paint marking cartridges). I asked "How so?" He replied, "They told us when confronted with an immediate threat, as you draw your weapon, begin firing as soon as the muzzle clears the holster, and "walk" your rounds up until you are hitting the target."

  I asked him to repeat this, as I was not sure I had heard correctly. He repeated this statement and added "You can see paint marks on the floor where the rounds were hitting".

  To be clear, the training described by this officer is completely contrary to the Dept.'s Firearms Training lesson plan. Range Instructors have always emphasized that if Deadly Force is warranted, obtaining a sight picture is critical so that accurate fire can be delivered to quickly neutralize the threat, as well as minimizing the threat to others, as it is Dept. policy that the minimum amount of force should be used to obtain a lawful objective, (i.e., gain compliance over the subject/offender).

  I did not verify that what the officer said was accurate or true, but during my time as an Instructor I was aware of several instances where training at various sites was not in accordance with what was being taught at the Academy. The story I provided is the most egregious example of supposed "training" I was aware of.

We have no idea if this is true or not, and no way to verify it either way. It would seem that this is a tailor-made opportunity to make a lot of law firms extremely rich as the "training" would be nothing more than manufacturing ricochets to wound any number of persons unlucky enough to be in the background. Who in their right mind would think that was a good idea?

Crime Pays....Pays Very Well

The "outrage" expressed here is amusing:

• Former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan’s lawyers accused prosecutors of a “gross breach of the rules” Monday, complaining that the feds “gratuitously plastered Madigan’s estimated net worth” in a public court filing leading up to his sentencing this week.

  Late last week, they also accused prosecutors of seeking “to condemn an 83-year-old man to die behind bars for crimes that enriched him not one penny.”

"...not one penny."? Are you kidding us?

After fifty years in government, guess how much Mike is worth:

• Prosecutors wrote in a court filing late Friday that “Madigan has amassed a personal fortune of more than $40 million.” They did so as they complained of his “appalling” greed amid a scheme to trade on the office he once held....

According to this website:

• The base salary for Illinois State Representatives is established by state law. As of the most recent decisions, the annual base salary for a member of the Illinois House of Representatives is $69,464. 

This salary can be augmented by per diem, committee assignments, travel reimbursement, health and retirement benefits, all for a job listed as "part time." Round it up to a cool $100,000 if you like, but even if that was the salary for all fifty years (it wasn't), that's only $5 million. Didn't Mike eat? Pay for a mortgage? Send kids to school, college and for law degree(s)? Weddings to pay for?

Mike was making bank as partner in his law firm, which was well knows as THE firm to appeal property tax assessments, whereby the firm would reap massive legal fees and the partners would get bonuses reflecting their ability to generate business. That's always been a legal way to ::ahem:: funnel money to those voting on the property tax rules. Funny how that works.

But claiming he didn't make "not one penny" is laughable in the extreme.

$50 million - who does this guy think he is, Nancy Pelosi? 

UPDATE: John Kass has an amusing take on the people who used to "oppose" Madigan all of the sudden supporting him and his corrupt behavior - likely because they all got rich while Madigan took the political heat....which wasn't really heat at all. It was an act.

Testing the Response Times

Guess who's coming to town?

Blue state blue cities are going to be summer hotbeds of stupidity until they figure out how hard the feds are going to come down on their bullshit. Don't make any long term weekend plans for the next few months.

Piss Poor Planning

Not only is Yoyo a moron, everyone in her office is a sub-moron:

• SCC, How are we supposed to drop a To-From to keep our days off for this weekend? We're supposed to write a To-From 10 days in advance, and the AdMin notice comes out eight days before the cancellations, and I was off two of those.

From what we hear, they're not even making the effort to do any 12-on-12-off First and Second watches with Third watch being the response platoon. Just all days off cancelled are going to Humboldt Park regardless of bids and assignments. 

That would take some effort and the Larritorious/Yoyo brain trust doesn't have anyone with an ounce of common sense  or Contractual knowledge to successfully run a deployment.

These A$$holes Again

This "fad" is back again:

• The paintball drive-bys are back. At least two people reported being shot with paintballs from passing cars on Sunday night, one in Old Town and the other in River North. One of the victims was taken to a hospital for treatment of an eye injury.

  Police said a 38-year-old man was walking westbound in the 100 block of West Schiller when a red sedan pulled up around 10:48 p.m. Someone inside the car fired a paintball gun, striking him in the eye, according to a CPD spokesperson.

Hopefully, a CCL carrier gets confronted and fires some timely and accurate lead projectiles in return. 

Death Penalty Work-Around

Federal charges:

• Federal prosecutors may pursue the death penalty for a man accused of killing an Uber driver during a weeks-long violent crime spree that also included an armed carjacking outside the Willis Tower.

  Edmond Harris, 22, has been in federal custody for four years since being charged with the March 23, 2021, murder of Javier Ramos during a carjacking in Lawndale.

  Last week, U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland extended deadlines in the case after learning that the Department of Justice is reconsidering its previous decision not to seek the death penalty for Harris, according to court records.

If Porkulous and state dems won't reinstate the Death Penalty at the state level, we fully support Federal executions of murderers.

Charges Announced

This is going to be another SAFE-T Act disaster:

• A wanted felon was charged and detained Sunday in connection with the death of Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera, who was unintentionally shot and killed by her partner last week after the man allegedly pointed an AR-style pistol at officers.

  Adrian A. Rucker, 25, of Freeport, faces felony counts of armed violence and illegal possession of a gun, drugs and a fake ID, Chicago police said in a statement Sunday morning.

  A Cook County judge ordered him held until trial during his detention hearing Sunday afternoon. Officers and Rivera’s family filled the courtroom.

Guess where this asshole was supposed to be already?

• CPD reported that Rucker had six active warrants at the time of his arrest, including one from suburban Cook County that had been active for nearly a year.

  Court records indicate Rucker failed to appear in court on an identity theft charge on June 5, 2024, exactly one year before Rivera’s shooting. Judge Ellen Mandeltort ordered her clerk to send Rucker a postcard reminder of his court obligations, but he did not comply. Mandeltort issued a failure-to-appear warrant a month later, which remained active until Chicago police arrested him on Thursday night.

A postcard?!?!  That'll show him!

Paul Vallas points out:

• According to the Chicago Tribune, the person arrested in the tragic death of Officer Krystal Rivera allegedly pointed a rifle at Officer Rivera and other officers during a pursuit, which led to the incident that tragically led to her death.
  
  
  Rucker had 6 WARRANTS and a revoked FOID card due to domestic battery charges. He had an arrest warrant with Cook County since July of 2024. Why didn’t the Sheriff make this arrest? 
  
  
  This is the public safety crisis former Clerk of the Courts Iris Martinez warned county leaders like Toni Preckwinkle about as Sheriff Tom Dart has let almost 40,000 warrants go unserved!  
  
  
  These warrants put CPD officers lives in grave danger, who come across these individuals at traffic or investigatory stops and do not know the person they are approaching has an arrest warrant.  
  
  
  CBS Chicago reports that the Sheriffs office has let 75% of orders of protection go unserved. Has any reporter asked why he does not serve the warrants and orders of protection? 
   
  How many lives of victims of violence and first responders do we have to lose before the leaders at Cook County will do their jobs?

Dart has never been held accountable for any poor decisions he's made - from jail deaths, to hiring media slobs or their wives for six-figure jobs, cutting manpower to dangerous levels.

Why start now? 

One Boat?

From the comments:

• SCC, you should do another follow up post and question why Mark Chapulis of 2FM still has a job. This is guy in charge of maintenance of the police departments helicopters and police boats.

  The city assets that he refuses to perform basic maintenance on and therefor are u down and costing the city more money because ignoring scheduled maintenance is causing more damage to the boats and helicopters.

  The Marine Unit now has one working boat.

  This is also the person in charge who lost a million dollar grant to refurbish a boat that has been useless for 3 years. The grant was awarded years ago and has now been lost since he did not have the refurbishment completed.

This is the same guy who has the helicopter fleet grounded, wheels falling off fire trucks, squad cars bursting into flame, garbage trucks breaking down in alleys across the city. He's obviously incompetent. 

And  with summer right around the corner, CPD has a single boat available?

More Praise?

Gee, first phony pfather pfleger, now an aldercreature?

• Chicago Ald. David Moore says he’s finally starting to see the change he’s long been envisioning when it comes to reducing the city’s out-of-control violent crime numbers.
  
  “I’m not getting the calls and even more than that, when I drive around at night, because I like to see where those hot spots are. I don’t see that activity like I used to in some of those very hotspot areas,” Moore told The Center Square. “I was just commending the District Commanders when we were in our meeting, just telling them, let’s continue to stay proactive on this. Let’s not lay down where we can improve.”

  Chicago Police Department data shows violent crime numbers are now down 24% across the city compared to last year, including the recent Memorial Day weekend, when the 24 people shot represented roughly half the number of 2024 shooting victims.

  [...] While Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has touted his new violence intervention program, which includes greater community outreach to and investment in young people, for spearheading much of the change, Moore is also quick to sing the praises of police.

  “Let me tell you, 90% of it is due to [Police Superintendent] Larry Snelling, but you have to give the mayor credit because he chose Larry Snelling at the request of the community,” Moore said. “When you hear and talk to the rank and file, this is a commander that understands all. This is a commander who all of them respect and they work hard for. The tools that he put in place to hold accountability to his commanders and to his sergeants, it’s unmatched.”

Nothing about the overly cool spring we just had? There were maybe 3 days total that topped 85 degrees and overnight lows were almost always in the 50/60s. That alone is worth more than half of the crime reduction. 

And depending on how you interpret falling arrests and citizens not waiting around to report crime, that could be another "reduction" in crime. 

But as always, reading too much into the cyclical nature of crime (it goes up, it goes down) in the short term will only lead to embarrassing ass-covering when numbers suddenly trend the other direction.

UPDATE: As a reader warns, temps are headed up and CPS teachers had to turn all the grades last week. That means this entire week is going to be kids playing hooky as there's no reason to show up to class. That could be an unexplained "increase" in short order.

L.A. Riots Inbound?

Why is the media describing the LA riots as "mostly peaceful"? It's like the St. George of Fentanyl events all over again.

It also forcibly reminds all sane people that the J6 "fed-surrection" was "RIOTS!" 24/7 despite nothing being burned and only American flags being waved. All we see during the LA riots are Mexican flags. Why are these people protesting for a country they won't even live in?

And the democrat politicians encouraging violent "protests," supporting doxxing law enforcement, protecting illegal aliens over American citizens - all behavior we were assured for months and years was "insurrection" but is now approved since it supports their current thinking. 

The outright refusal of local law enforcement to assist federal authorities who were under attack and under siege necessitated the federalization of over 2,000 National Guard troops. The nation is slowly waking up to the fact that democrats don't serve the middle class any more (not that they ever truly did - they served the accumulation of power).

Porkulous has been making the same noises as Newscum for months now, so it may only be a matter of time before the pantifa and transtifa rioters are deployed here.

Prepare accordingly.

Light Posting Sunday

After the past 48 hours, we're going to take it easy tonight.

We ended up going through over 400 comments, and to be frank there were quite a few that needed deletion, most obviously from outsiders who dislike the CPD and were steered here by certain anti-cop posts elsewhere. It's just one of those things.

Open post for now. 

Firefighters Injured

Minor injuries, but still a reminder of the dangers faced by First Responders:

• Two Chicago firefighters and a teen were injured Saturday afternoon in an apartment fire in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

  Firefighters responded to a fire on the third floor of a four-story apartment building in the 2300 block of North Ashland Avenue, Chicago Fire Department officials said.

  Two firefighters who were injured were taken to the hospital in good condition. A teenage boy was taken to Lurie Children's Hospital for treatment to be checked for smoke inhalation.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Good F#$%ing Lord

We're speechless:

• Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera was “unintentionally” shot and killed by her partner when they encountered an armed person during a foot pursuit Thursday night in Chatham, police officials said.

  Police Supt. Larry Snelling previously said that Rivera was shot about 9:50 p.m. while chasing a person who she thought was armed into an apartment building in the 8200 block of South Drexel Avenue. Once inside, officers were confronted by another person who was armed with a rifle, and an officer opened fire.

  Police now say the officer was the only person who fired a weapon, and that the “gunfire unintentionally struck Officer Rivera.”

Where to begin?

How does the Department address this?

We can only recall one similar incident, possibly on the southwest side many years ago, where an Officer was shot in the leg (possible ricochet) involving a traffic stop, a van, and crossfire. It might have been TRU or MSF. We don't remember it all. We might be wrong on part of it.

But this.... 

This is bad. Very bad. Bad enough that it may call into question every bit of firearm training the Department is operating under. We could go on for hours about basic firearm safety, how the NRA teaches it, how the military teaches it, how it is supposed to be drilled into every single brain cell so that safe operation becomes habit, second nature, and part of your overall tactical awareness.

And then we could go on for even more hours about how continuing Firearm Safety is neglected as soon as you graduate the Academy, because training is expensive, time consuming, and removes Officers from the street. Plus, the City doesn't want you relying on your weapon any more - they want you to de-escalate, be less confrontational, use less-than-lethal options. 

And tactics? That would take days to cover.

Something broke down, utterly and completely, and it cost a young woman her life....and a child her mother.

We are truly at a loss here.  

Inappropriate

Here's a link to the video of numerous exempts with absolutely no sense of decorum:

• LINK

It's all of eighteen seconds long and we can spot at least three incidents of laughter just prior to the press conference about an Officer who was just killed.

This is the command staff - they sure inspire a lot of confidence and respect, don't they? 

Reminder

From our old friend:

• CPD FATHERS' DAY MASS AT GOLD STAR FAMILIES MEMORIAL AND PARK 10:00 A.M. SUNDAY, 15 JUN

  All active and retired CPD members, Gold Star Families, Chaplains Ministry supporters, and their families are welcome...as is the public. Mass will be finished by 10:30 for the sake of on-duty worshipers on their lunch break.

  While this is a Catholic Mass, ALL are welcome to honor dads/grandfathers/father figures whose names are permanently inscribed on the walls of the CPD memorial.

  Bring a lawn chair or blanket...and a picnic lunch if you'd like to stick around.

  IN CASE OF INCLEMENT WEATHER, call Fr. Dan Brandt, directing CPD Chaplain, at 773-550-2369 for status.

  Ample free parking is available on Special Olympics Drive (formerly Museum Campus Drive), adjacent to the park. Uniformed CPD officers will direct you.

  The CFD 5-11 canteen will be on hand providing water, Gatorade, coffee and snacks. And the mounted unit horses will be looking forward to seeing you as well.

  God bless all our fathers and father figures, living and deceased!

  Fr. Dan Brandt - CPD Chaplain

CPD needs all the prayers we can muster.

Officer Killed Overnight

 006 District - details still coming in:

• A Chicago police officer is dead and another is injured after a shooting on the city’s South Side Thursday night, according to the Chicago Police Department.

  CPD Supt. Larry Snelling confirmed a 36-year-old female police officer was shot and killed near East 82nd Street and South Drexel Avenue. She was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, where she was later pronounced dead.

  At a press conference early Friday morning, Snelling said a female officer was a part of an investigatory stop around 9:50 p.m. Thursday in the Chatham neighborhood where a person fled on foot. CPD officers pursued the person into an apartment.

  According to Snelling, when CPD officers entered the apartment, they were confronted by a second individual who was armed with a rifle and pointed it at the officers.

It appears all offenders are in custody at this point.

The Officer had about four years on and leaves behind a child. Prayers and deepest sympathies to her family, friends and everyone in 006. 

UPDATE: Why is there a commander laughing at the scene? ABC has video up at the moment. 

UPDATE: The initial attempt to transport the wounded Officer failed....because the squad car caught fire? 

COPA Can't Police

Remember when they used to send media types through a set of Use of Force scenarios? And they pretty much all failed to follow some obvious rules, like identifying themselves as "police," reacting inappropriately to assailants, or shooting unarmed suspects?

Granted, it was a publicity stunt, but it taught important lessons, the primary one being that police have fractions of seconds to react and another being that mistakes can happen even after hundreds of hours of training. Police work - especially high stress, dynamic situations - don't lend themselves to easy solutions.

But don't let that stop the armchair quarterbacks from f#$%ing cops every chance they get!

• Hey SCC get this, sat in training and was told all of copa went through traffic stop use of force class/DRU-VS.

  Everyone failed, everyone failed to activate bwc and on top of that the excuse the copa investigators gave was “there was too much going on for me to remember to activate my bwc”.

  On top of that, one of the investigators kept shooting while the role player was shot, on the ground, with no weapon.

  It would be nice to see the media blast that all over the news. Want to give us shit about doing our jobs but you couldn’t last a day in our shoes.

These are the people (or folks) sitting in judgement of cops, while during their own training they're forgetting to turn on cameras and shooting unarmed subjects already on the ground.

It doesn't really matter since all outcomes are politically motivated nowadays. Evidence doesn't matter, only the visuals that can be manufactured and spun for the evening news. But it's good to know they're as incompetent at their "training" as they are at their "investigating."

Larritorious the PreCog

Chicago is going to get sued into oblivion:

• Chicago police Supt. Larry Snelling on Wednesday said he wants a power that Mayor Brandon Johnson doesn’t want to give him: authority to declare three-hour-long “snap curfews” anywhere in the city with just 30 minutes’ notice.

  “What that curfew would be used for is deterrence. We would like to have something like that in advance when we know that there’s the possibility of a gathering that’s going to lead to violence in a particular area that has a history” of it, Snelling told the Sun-Times.

  “This would give us plenty of time to put out notice to everyone involved that teenagers are going to converge on this area if we don’t stop it ahead of time and it could lead to violence.”

The movie that comes to mind is Minority Report where "pre-cogs" (clairvoyant humans) can see homicides before they occur and send out a "Pre-crime" task force to arrest would be perpetrators before the murder is actually committed.

Larritorious wants the power to "deter" crime before it has actually happened by restricting any number of Civil Rights, which the ACLU is going to have a field day with. We're talking tens of millions of dollars, perhaps even hundreds.

Tactically speaking, this is a no-brainer. All authoritarians want the ability to intimidate, arrest and hold their opponents for even thinking about crime. From the standpoint of a Constitutional Republic with a broad interpretation of First Amendment Rights, it's the first step on a slippery slope.

The simplest solution is to arrest, prosecute and imprison people (and folks) for the crimes they actually commit....you know, like we used to. Like all successful societies do to those who refuse to abide by the laws passed. Commit a crime, do the time. Reap what you sow. Actions and consequences. 

It's amusing that fascism is always supposed to be materializing on the Right, but never fails to appear on the Left. 

What's This?

A bunch of people brought this up in the comment section and via email (click for larger version):

Sorry about the quality, but it's a picture from a computer screen.

On one hand, we appreciate the spirit behind the organizations that are attempting to assist the Officers in crisis. The CPD is in a bad spot (and has been for a number of years) where the mental health of Officers took a back seat to pretty much everything. The sheer number of Officers taking their own lives has been crushing. The steps currently being taken sound good, but as with anything run by the government, are astoundingly slow.

On the other hand, we do understand that there needs to be some sort of standardization among the volunteer groups to comply with what is required by State Law and what is required to remain a Police Officer. Mental health persons have reporting responsibilities especially where self-harm is evident or implied, and once that reporting takes place, there is a potential conflict - real or perceived - regarding fulfilling the requirements of the job, i.e. the FOID card.

This is a problem that needs to be addressed promptly and professionally. The EAP program is great....if it's available, operational 24/7/365, and fully staffed. Which we don't believe it is, despite more than how many years now? Volunteer organizations could fill the gaps, if they operated under a central authority and a uniform set of rules. 

Staying alive and mentally healthy should always be the goal, but that's hard to do if your entire future employment is on the line. In fact, that's an entirely understandable set of additional aggravating stressors if you're already suffering.

Countdown Begins?

Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye?

• The White Sox announced Thursday that chairman Jerry Reinsdorf and minority investor Justin Ishbia have reached a long-term investment agreement that will allow Ishbia to obtain a future controlling interest in the organization.

  Ishbia’s brother Mat Ishbia is the controlling owner of the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury. Mat and Justin Ishbia’s father, Jeff Ishbia, will also be a significant investor to the Sox.

  According to a report by The Athletic in Feburary, Ishbia dropped his pursuit of the Minnesota Twins in February and increased his minority stake in the Sox.

  Reinsdorf, 89, will have the option to sell controlling interest to Ishbia from 2029-2033. After the 2034 season, Ishbia will have the option to acquire controlling interest in the team.

Whereupon, the White Sox move out? This guy already owns the Sun and Mercury (NBA and wNBA).

Eight years of planning and politics on the horizon.