Wanted - Armed and Dangerous

This has been presented at every Roll Call citywide:

• Detectives have distributed surveillance images to Chicago police officers citywide of a man they want to speak with in connection with the murder of CPD Officer Luis Huesca as he returned home from work on Sunday morning.

  On Monday evening, CPD went public with this video compilation, which shows the suspect walking in the area of the murder and shopping at two convenience stores. Police said he should be considered armed and dangerous.

Hopefully it's only a matter of time.

Time for a Referee

The feud between Larritorious and Scumbag Andrea Kersten has attracted the attention of another political realm:

• Following days of public sniping and sassing in the wake of the Dexter Reed video release, Chicago’s top cop and the head of the agency that investigates CPD shootings are being given a timeout.

  Anthony Driver, President of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, announced Friday he will meet this week with Supt. Larry Snelling and COPA Chief Administrator Andrea Kersten to discuss “professionalism and mutual understanding” as Kersten’s agency continues its investigation of the shooting.

  A rift developed almost immediately upon COPA’s April 9 release of video and other evidence related to the March 21 shooting in Humboldt Park. Reed is believed to have fired shots at police officers during a traffic stop, striking one in the arm. Four other officers at the scene returned fire, killing the 26-year-old.

  Snelling appeared at a town hall on the evening before the video release, and he sounded like he was ready to present the police department’s version of events when the videos came out. But he was a no-show at a press conference the next morning, where Kersten and Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx discussed the case.

As we pointed out, lib-tarded "progressive" Scumbag Andrea Kersten started the ball rolling by writing a letter claiming Officers should be suspended without any investigation taking place and zero interviews being conducted with any involved Officers, then tipping off the media to FOIA the e-mail, bolstering the narrative that the Officers acted improperly (which they didn't). then she went to media outlets, including ESPN for some reason (a sports network) to answer questions about an e-mail she manufactured specifically to circumvent a proper and professional investigation.

And now, Marty Prieb has located someone who has declared that Officers should not be facing any disciplinary proceedings in this shooting. Guess who?

• The former head of the civilian oversight agency for the Chicago Police Department stated Wednesday that he would testify on behalf of any police officers charged with misconduct in a high-profile shooting that left the offender dead and one officer wounded.

  Scott Ando, who headed the city’s oversight agency from 2014 to 2015, stated he would be willing to testify at any police board hearing that could take shape from an investigation by the city’s current oversight agency, COPA, led by Andrea Kersten, into the March 21 shooting death of Dexter Reed.

The former head of IPRA (predecessor of COPA) and the guy who supervised dozens upon dozens of police shootings, disagrees entirely with the politically motivated persecution of Police Officers by lib-tarded "progressive" Scumbag Andrea Kersten....and he's willing to go to Court to testify in support of Officers.

That one is going to sting.

FOP Appeals Arbitration Ruling

We recognize the FOP's intent....as long as everyone alsoe recognizes the spin that will be applied from the "progressive" lib-tards:

• Chicago’s largest police union has given formal notice that it will appeal a court ruling that would open hearings on major disciplinary cases to the public. In a court filing, lawyers for Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 said they would challenge an order by Cook County Judge Michael Mullen issued last month.

  That order pared back a 2023 ruling by a labor arbitrator that gave officers facing dismissal or long-term suspensions the option to have their case decided by an independent arbitrator instead of the Chicago Police Board. The arbitrator’s ruling also required the city to pay officers who were suspended while their cases were pending, a provision that also was rolled back by Mullen’s order.

  Mullen had said before releasing his ruling that he expected it would please neither side.

  Mullen affirmed officers’ right to have an arbitrator decide their fate in serious cases, but he did say those hearings could be open because of the public interest in misconduct by police.

The argument that the politicians are going to make is that "secrecy" prevents oversight.

Arbitrator Benn has said the city is unlikely to prevail in court, and that this may result in years of litigation. It's going to be a long and bumpy road, outlasting our careers for certain and thousands of others.

Check Out This Einstein

Out on bail with a helluva story:

• Around 1:45 p.m. on April 12, Chicago police responded to calls of a man with a gun provoking people on the street near 130th and Indiana on the Far South Side. They saw Christopher Woods in the area and thought he matched the suspect’s description, according to a report they filed later.

  As the officers stepped out of their squad car to speak with Woods, one of them noticed he was holding a gun inside his right jacket pocket, the report said. The other officer saw the grip of a firearm.

  Woods, 45, complied with the officers’ commands and they recovered the loaded pistol from his pocket, according to the report.

  The officers’ report said he “was going to turn the firearm in.”

Sure he was. People with guns always want to turn them in.

And then....:

• Prosecutors charged Woods with Class X armed habitual criminal because he has been convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm twice before. However, they did not ask Judge Charles Beach to detain Woods during his court appearance on April 13, so the judge sent him home.

  Less than 24 hours later, around 12:45 p.m. on April 14, Woods flagged down a CPD tactical unit near 116th and Michigan.

  He told the officers that “he wanted to turn a gun in as well as turn himself in,” the officers wrote in their report, adding that Woods told them he had a gun in his jacket pocket.

  The officers recovered a loaded revolver and a box containing 48 rounds of ammunition from his jacket, the report said.

Good Lord....we guess he really really wanted to turn in a gun so badly, he went out and found another one within fourteen hours.

For those keeping track at home, he has somehow acquired at least FOUR different guns, while being a felon, and without the benefit of an FOID card.

Cases Never Closed

In California, even after three years AND the previous District Attorney refusing to levy charges against involved Officers, all it takes is a "progressive" lib-tarded new DA to be elected and all bets are off:

• District Attorney Pamela Price on Thursday evening announced she plans to file charges against the three Alameda police officers involved in the 2021 in-custody death of Mario Gonzalez.

  Price made the announcement at a press conference at around 6 p.m. Thursday. She said the officers would be charged with involuntary manslaughter. 

  During the press conference, Price misspoke about the possible sentence the charge could carry, saying the officers could be in state prison for 15 years to life. Her office later clarified that the possible sentence was up to four years.

Even the Coroner determined the death was a combination of drugs in the offender's system and the stress of trying to resist arrest....what we now know as a "St. George of Floyd" fatality. 

But it proves once again, that democrats love them some criminals, regardless of the location.

Haunting

The death of Officer Luis Huesca took a hauntingly dark turn when it was revealed he had given a short video remembrance of his classmate and good friend, Officer Vásquez Lasso, who was killed in the Line of Duty just last year:

• Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca was shot and killed while off duty, but in uniform, in the Southwest Side's Gage Park neighborhood early Sunday morning.

  Officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert just before 3 a.m. After touring the area, officers drove to the 3100 block of West 56th Street, near Kedzie Avenue, where the off-duty officer was found outside with gunshot wounds, police said.

  Just a year ago, Huesca eulogized one of his best friends – a fellow Chicago Police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty.

  It was just last year when Officer Huesca appeared in a tribute video for his good friend and colleague, Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso, who was shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence call on Spaulding Avenue near 53rd Street March 1, 2023.

  "Whether it was it was at work or outside of work, he did take the time to help others," Huesca said of Vásquez Lasso in the tribute video, and "he's one of those guys who deserves that star. He was proud to wear this star."

  The tribute video to Officer Vásquez Lasso now holds a while [sic] new meeting [sic] for those who knew both officers.

We see CBS's editors took the night off.....maybe they meant "...whole new meaning..."? 

We also see it took Conehead the better part of a day to arrive back in the city from his suburban hideout and even longer to release a statement regarding the death of an Officer. It barely took him a news cycle to comment on the video of a dead shithead who shot another Officer. We guess when you prioritize the criminal over the cops, nothing should surprise us.

Assign Responsibility?

Maybe we can get Crimesha to do this? It's a lib-tarded dream after all and Crimesha is a lib-tard:

• Ethan Crumbley’s parents were sentenced to between 10 and 15 years behind bars Tuesday for their son’s 2021 massacre that left four students dead — the first parents convicted in a US mass school shooting.

  James and Jennifer Crumbley were handed the prison time by Judge Cheryl Matthews in a Pontiac, Mich., courtroom after they were found guilty on involuntary manslaughter charges at separate trials in March and February, respectively.

Can you imagine if  Cook County courts were used to hold parents accountable for their children's crimes? All these carjackings, robberies, burglaries, batteries and homicides? 

Fata$$ would have to build a dozen new prisons, providing thousands of new union jobs for construction workers and thousands more unionized corrections officers.

Walk the walk Crimesha.

U of C Victim Fights Back

And she managed to disarm an offender:

• A University of Chicago student robbed at gunpoint this week fought back and grabbed a key piece of evidence that's now in the hand of detectives.

  The entire incident was captured on surveillance video. Madelyn, 21, a senior studying economics, was walking home from class Wednesday afternoon when a man approached her in the 5600 block of South University.

  [...]

  "In the tussle, I was able to take the magazine out of his gun, and I tossed it into a bush.

And that key piece of evidence may have led to an arrest:

• Chicago police said two teen boys, 16 and 17 years old, are in custody and are facing felony charges on Sunday morning in connection to armed robberies near the University of Chicago campus.

Detectives haven't linked the recovered magazine to the arrested juveniles, but it isn't too far of a stretch. The student has some regrets about fighting back....from what we're interpreting, she didn't realize it was an actual pistol until after the fact. She's awfully lucky.

Ironic Prophet

Remember that French actor guy that got beaten up by some Nigerian body builders he hired? He claimed that on a sub-zero winter morning, these "white guys" in red hats declared Chicago "MAGA Country" and beat his ass.

Who knew he was actually predicting the future?

Juicy was just predicting the future where MAGA support would be coming from unlikely quarters.

Off Duty Officer Killed

Headed home after work....and his car and gun are missing:

• A Chicago police officer was shot to death two days before his 31st birthday on the Southwest Side early Sunday, authorities said. Just before 3 a.m., paramedics responded to the 3100 block of West 56th Street for an officer shot, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

  The officer, a 30-year-old man, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died due to his injuries, Supt. Larry Snelling told reporters outside of the University of Chicago Sunday morning. The officer was heading home after his shift when he was shot multiple times, Snelling said. He worked for the department for six years.

  “We lost one of our own today,” Snelling said. “He was just a great officer, great human being.”

  He didn’t confirm that the shooting was the result of a carjacking but did say the officer’s vehicle was taken.

Deepest sympathies to his family, friends and co-workers. More info will be forthcoming when it becomes available.

ISP to Investigate?

From the comments:

• ...right from the 5th floor.
  
  ISP is going to be taking over all CPD OIS investigations. details are being worked out but the sticking points are transparency, timelines and the big one is the cost. ISP does not want to but we are going to pay them millions to do it. word will come down before the end of the year.

This would make sense, having qualified investigators handling Officer Involved Shootings instead of political hacks with axes to grind

Anyone from ISP care to confirm?

Based on the post just below this one, an outside agency is the only way to have a legit investigation.

Larritorious Must Resign?

The usual suspects are demanding Larry resign for being minimally capable at his job:

• Protesters showed up Thursday night at a Chicago Police Board meeting demanding the firing and prosecution of officers who fired 96 shots at Dexter Reed during a traffic stop last month.

Again, this is a LIE. All of the reports on the COPA website have the total number of shots fired by the Officers in the TRR's. Those add up to seventy-nine. Does no one in the media realize that these TRR's are Official Reports? And lying on an Official Report - intentionally or unintentionally - is a guaranteed Separation Charge. Anyone who would affix their signature - written or electronic - to a document containing any improper information would be foolish in the extreme.

Don't believe us? Ask the Sergeant who signed the TRRs for the McDonald case. He was ORDERED to electronically sign the forms because the Street Deputy wanted to complete his portion of the paperwork package and go home. The Sergeant did so even though he was never on the scene of the shooting. 

Guess who got fired for Falsification of Official Reports? And guess who retired with a full pension?

• Grace Patino, with the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, said during public comment that Chicago police Supt. Larry Snelling — who was at the meeting — should be dismissed.

  “Dexter Reed should be here today,” Patino said. “The officers involved in the execution of Dexter Reed must be immediately fired and prosecuted to the fullest extent possible.”

So....we should just lynch the Officers? With no hearings, no trial, no collection of evidence? Didn't society used to do things like that? We recall marches, lawsuits, protests, all sorts of history against this sort of behavior....and now it's suddenly acceptable again?

Can we use this against carjackers?

• Miracle Boyd, an activist with Good Kids Mad City, said Reed was “racially profiled,” and his death was detrimental to Black communities. “We demand the tactical units be banned, and Mayor Johnson, Supt. Snelling and COPA fire the officers,” she said. “We no longer need police to perform traffic stops because it’s not safe.”

Racially profiled....by a black Officer....whom Dexter shot? Evidently, Miracle didn't buy an education with her settlement money.

Larry and the COPA scumbag traded some shots:

• Snelling and Andrea Kersten, chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, during the meeting sparred over transparency in the Reed case. Snelling had criticized Kersten for making public comments on the preliminary information in the investigation before interviewing officers.

  Kersten read a statement defending the sharing of preliminary information with the public as a crucial step in restoring trust between the public and the city’s institutions.

  “Given our city’s history and the lack of trust in our institutions and processes that resolve these issues, it is crucial to provide information to the public when we can,” Kersten said. “The recitation of preliminary facts that I delivered to the public last week was objective, fair, and struck the delicate balance between informing the public and maintaining the integrity of the ongoing investigations.”

We're pretty sure no one was talking about the "preliminary facts," though few if any existed. COPA still hasn't interviewed the Officers and were we providing legal advice, we'd decline any interviews and insist that Larritorious waive any Department requirements to cooperate.

COPA has proven it cannot be trusted to be impartial.She's giving interviews to....ESPN? "Revrunds"? Persons with ZERO official standing in the process?

Did everyone catch the "Libtard 101 Playbook" scumbag Kersten is using?

• write an e-mail to the administration demanding suspensions based on zero investigation;
• tip off the media to FOIA the e-mail thread from her office to Conehead and Larritorious;
• comment on the "public record" that she manufactured.

It's a typical trick used by leakers, whistleblowers (legit and not), the feds (looking at you FBI) and scumbag progressives with an agenda to push. 

And finally, they dig up a teacher with a typical sob story rooted in a long ago past life:

• During the rally before the meeting, Melina Lesus, who teaches at Westinghouse College Prep, where Reed was a standout basketball player, said teachers trusted him and were shocked to hear of his death. “I was talking to one of my colleagues who did teach him as a freshman, and she said, ‘Melina, how could this happen? He was the most respectful kid,’” Lesus said.

His high school career was eight years ago. A lot can happen in eight years. A number of arrests. A couple of felony charges. A gun arrests. An uncle shooting him for threatening the family with a knife. 

Maybe you and your colleagues were just really bad teachers.

Blogger Issues

Blogger is having some technical issues this weekend. We're assuming the publishing issues we've been experiencing are one of those things that gets addressed over the weekend when traffic is traditionally lower.

If we're late or delayed, it's the computer server issues, not us. 

We're still here. Be patient.

Open post in the meantime. Maybe discuss this....that $70 million that O'Shea and others approved for the illegals....that would have looked good in the underfunded pension, wouldn't it?

Cop Injured

 Car crash:

• Three people were hurt in a crash involving a Chicago police squad car Friday.

  The crash happened in West Woodlawn in the 6300 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue.

  Chicago police say the squad car hit a red Kia. One officer and a 31-year-old woman and 64-year-old woman were taken to the University of Chicago Hospital for treatment with minor injuries, CPD said. All three were in good condition.

Speedy recovery wished to the Officer....we need all hands on deck this summer. you wouldn't want to miss all the excitement, right?

Where is the Money Coming From?

Kicking the can down the road:

• The City Council authorized a massive $1.25 billion borrowing plan for economic development and housing projects on Friday, handing Mayor Brandon Johnson a key victory in his plan to wean the city off a longstanding reliance on tax increment financing districts.

  It passed 32-17 despite objections from opponents seeking tighter Council oversight of future projects.

With interest, the plan could cost the city $2.4 billion over 37 years, meaning just about everyone who voted for and against this monstrosity will be long dead, buried, or likely residing their last years in Federal prison. They are dooming anyone who remains in this dying blue $hithole to a dystopian future.

And along with this borrowing, are they planning on spending anything responsibly?

Hell no:

• City Council members on Friday approved $70 million in surplus spending that, with assistance from the county and state, is expected to cover expenses through the end of the year to care for the influx of asylum-seekers sent to Chicago from the Southern U.S. border.

  By a vote of 30-18, Council members backed the latest round of funding for a crisis that has highlighted racial divisions in the city, raising questions about committing money to new Latino arrivals without addressing decades of disinvestment in Black neighborhoods on the South and West sides.

  Ald. Anthony Beale (9th) said the measure amounts to “burning money” for “residents who are not paying taxes in the city of Chicago.”

As opposed to the last 70 years of burning money....

Nice Hats

A retiree has made a few hats:

If you know where to get them, let us know in the comment section.

Remember, Don't Demonize

And don't ever describe the offender either (right Cuck?):

• Two men were robbed by a group of suspects armed with handguns and rifles on the Northwest Side Thursday morning, Chicago police said.

  The two victims were standing on the sidewalk in the 3500-block of West Belmont Avenue at about 3:20 a.m. when police said a black sedan approached and four armed suspects got out.

  The suspects demanded the victims' property and then they fled westbound on Belmont Avenue, police said. No one was injured and no one is in custody.

  The robbery comes amid a CPD alert detailing more than a dozen similar armed robberies over the past week across the North and Northwest sides.

That "more than a dozen" they cite?

• it's closer to twenty across the city

But don't worry, NBC doesn't describe the suspects any better than ABC did. 

But they did describe the car as "black" though, so that's something.

Doom Loop

We didn't coin the term "doom loop" or it's cousin, "death spiral," but we were using it years and years ago. Maybe we helped popularized them a bit? Regardless, here's someone noticing what we noticed long ago:

• The downtown core of St. Louis, Missouri, which has not had a Republican mayor since 1949, finds itself trapped in a downward doom loop, plagued by vacant buildings, criminal activity, and shuttered businesses, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. The Journal paints a grim picture of a city center in distress, with boarded-up properties and occasional raids by emergency services searching for squatters and missing persons.

  Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson described the area as “a very dangerous place,” recounting a tragic incident during a 2023 raid where a search dog fell through an open window and later succumbed to its injuries. The city also faced a fire last year at a building, suspected to have been caused by copper thieves.

  The iconic 44-story building, formerly owned by AT&T, now sits empty, recently selling for a mere $3.5 million—a staggering drop from its 2006 sale price of $205 million. “Cities such as San Francisco and Chicago are trying to save their downtown office districts from spiraling into a doom loop. St. Louis is already trapped in one,” the WSJ reported.

The article goes on to describe a litany of population loss, increasing crime, diminishing business and declining tourist numbers....all things an observant reader will recognize as parallel to what's happening in the Windy City.

To that list, we'd also add increasing taxes, lost convention businesses, reduced city services, to say nothing about the teachers demanding a 51% raise for failing at their jobs.

And we almost forgot the high dollar businesses leaving town:

• Citadel, Boeing and Guggenheim all leaving Chicago and Illinois
  
• United moving out to the burbs
• Water Tower emptying, Blommers closing, McDonald's warning Conehead about crime
  

Even the CME is still talking about moving. We told people not long ago that they had trading floors built out-of-state and ran successful weekend tests with all the electronics. All it would take now is an ill-advised "transaction tax" and the CME flips a switch....no more tax revenue. (corrected)

Doom loop, death spiral, it all spells trouble.

No One Noticed?

All those GPS trackers and automated bus / train notifications to show how efficiently the CTA is burning through your tax dollars, and this happened last year?

• A Block Club Chicago investigation into the circumstances around Lyons’ death raises questions about the safety of CTA drivers as the agency is touting improved working conditions in an attempt to bolster its staff.

  Block Club’s reporting found Lyons sat in her bus unconscious for nearly an hour before someone eventually sought help. CTA supervisors neglected to check on her even though the bus never moved and subsequently failed to arrive at more than 50 scheduled stops.

  The CTA failed to report the incident to the Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Administration despite a state law requiring it. The CTA wouldn’t explain why or answer Block Club’s questions about this incident, saying it was limited by privacy concerns. 

  “Out of respect for Ms. Lyons’ family, we are unable to provide any more details about her service record,” CTA spokesperson Maddie Kilgannon said in a statement. “We can, however, note that as soon as our 24/7 Operations Control Center was notified of Ms. Lyons’ condition the night of July 20, 2023, first responders were on scene within a couple of minutes.”

A couple of minutes.....after she sat dying or dead for over an hour in a bus turnaround. Great system you got there Ms Kilgannon. 

No GPS reading on a non moving bus? No notifications that a "ghost bus" wasn't appearing where those automated notifications say it was? No CTA supervisor in an SUV checking on which routes and runs were operating on-time or behind? And after all these failures, the CTA even refused to make a report to OSHA as required by law.

The CTA eats up how much of the city budget with all these "modernizations" and they all failed?

Monkeypox - Election Variant

Just in time to gin up panic for the fall:

• A worrying new strain of monkeypox with "pandemic potential" has been discovered by scientists.

  Researchers have called for “swift action” from the international community to avoid another outbreak of the virus, which is now officially known as mpox.

  It comes after a study tracked a new outbreak in a mining town in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Authorities in the country have for the latest been battling a variant of mpox called "clade 1" for around a year.

  This variant is thought to kill 10% of all people who become infected - and researchers have now uncovered a mutated version of it which appears to be better at spreading. It's been named "clade 1b", and was discovered in Kamituga, a town of 13,995 people.

The last strain of "mpox" (called mpox so as not to offend monkeys) was spread via sexual contact, usually among the alternative lifestyle community. As with all viruses, it becomes more spreadable but less deadly (see COVID). But that doesn't mean there won't be an effort to lock everything down if democrats think they can get away with it again.

And don't forget the obligatory mpox shot someone will come up with, administered with a white wine spritzer.

Sixty-Five?

Why stay?

The city and many citizens hate us. The stress is through the roof. Every year you stay, you probably take at least three years off your life. The risk of a bankrupting lawsuit increases dramatically. Not to mention the continued damage to your already aging body.

We suppose if you die earlier, there's more pension to go around, and you're all old enough to make your own decisions, but we can't see this effecting more than one hundred people.

Little Late There Nick

This would have been helpful a week or more ago, when it was the hot topic around all the media outlets:

• An alderman from the city’s Northwest Side has filed a complaint against the head of the independent agency that oversees the Chicago Police Department for comments she’s made about the fatal police shooting of Dexter Reed, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday.

  According to the report, Ald. Nicholas Sposato of the 38th Ward sent a letter to the city’s Office of the Inspector General criticizing Andrea Kersten, the chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, for recent local and national interviews she’s given — including with WGN-TV — about the March 21 fatal shooting of the 26-year-old Reed.

  The report also says that Sposato’s complaint calls for COPA’s probe into Reed’s death, which remains ongoing, be turned over to state police.

  “Chief Administrator Kersten should not be participating in interviews or comment in memos regarding investigations that have yet to commence,” Sposato wrote, according to the report. “Her comments have led to a tainting of public opinion about the case, and of the brave members of the Chicago Police Department.”

All well and good. But shouldn't this rule about not discussing investigations been in place a while ago? Like maybe when COPA was founded? Like any competent and professional organization would do?

Oh wait, we just answered our own questions. COPA is neither a professional, not a competent investigative agency. 

And the City Council? Not them either.

Your "complaint" will go nowhere Nick. Propose and pass a Law forbidding COPA giving interviews to radio stations, media outlets, ESPN (what the actual fuck?), "revrunds" and Jamal. Otherwise, you're just blowing smoke up everyone's ass.

CTU Can Get Bent

Taxpayers are being soaked for more and more money for a failing product. Kids can't read, can't write, can't do basic math at their Grade Level. Schools have been turned into grooming factories....

And they want more money?

• If the Chicago Teachers Union gets its way with the mayor they helped elect, their next contract will boost the average teacher’s pay by half to $144,620 in the 2027-2028 school year.

  The average now is $93,182.

  Teacher pay rose more than $43,000 since 2012 – nearly triple the private-sector salary increase. If CTU’s demands are met, another $51,438 will be added to the average salary by the next contract – a 55.2% increase.

Taxpayers would be completely justified asking for pay cuts.

Good Luck With This

This will likely go nowhere:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson has his hands full with the migrant crisis, a persistent robbery surge, negotiations on a new teachers’ contract and an increasingly restive City Council. Now, he faces another potential, but much smaller, headache: a recall.

  A former technology salesman who lives in Lake View has formed a political action committee to raise money and at least begin the formidable challenge of putting a binding referendum on the Nov. 5 ballot asking Chicago voters whether they want the power to recall their mayor.

  Daniel Boland said the recall effort is about “helping and empowering” the people of Chicago — not about “hurting” Johnson. But he acknowledged he’s disappointed with the mayor’s performance.

Someone ought to be circulating these petitions in Police and Fire stations across the city in any event. They might get lucky and acquire the 11,000 signatures we gathered years ago.

Ethics? She had Ethics?

Continuing a long history of family corruption, in Chicago, Maywood and who knows where else:

• The Chicago Board of Ethics fined City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin $60,000 for violating the government ethics ordinance by using city resources to host a prayer service.

  In keeping with the rules governing the inspector general and Chicago Board of Ethics, Conyears-Ervin was not named in the report. However, sources confirmed to WTTW News that Conyears-Ervin was the subject of the board’s action.

  A spokesperson for Conyears-Ervin did not immediately respond to a text message from WTTW News seeking comment about the board’s action.

  The board found Conyears-Ervin committed 12 total violations of Chicago’s Governmental Ethics Ordinance for violating her fiduciary duty to the city, for the unauthorized use of city property and prohibited political activity.

Does hubby still own the crackhouse(s) in Maywood? And is he still using that office for stripper parties? How about that fake address over in 011 where he parks his truck before leaving for greener (and safer) pastures?

Good Question

But you'll never get a good answer:

• Honest question, why does COPA still have videos BEYOND the storage date? Outside of on-going court cases or some murder case, why are our videos still on their site!? Why are they above the law?

We asked the same question, years ago when COPA was IPRA was OPS. The City never throws out a piece of paper, never deletes a computer file (aside from selected e-mails), and never completely closes a complaint against an Officer.

We recall a few years back, we'd get those emails from the Department telling us that certain lists of Complaints were going to be released going back years, even decades. In fact, there were CR lists that they released with our father's name on them, and at that point, he had been dead for fifteen years. What purpose could be served by releasing those files?

We also think that the FOP, perhaps under Nolan, attempted to get these files destroyed, as they were required to be under State Law after seven years for Exonerated and Not Sustained cases. 

That went nowhere fast.

Who Watches COPA?

Evidently, no one, since COPA is involved in the PPP fraud, too:

• A top administrator and investigator at Chicago's Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) received a federal "PPP" loan of $21,106 for an alleged babysitting business while she was a full-time employee of the agency.

  That's according to a review of U.S. Small Business Administration records by Chicago City Wire.

  Sharday Jackson, "deputy chief administrator" at COPA, where she leads investigations into civilian allegations of police misconduct, was approved for the loan for her "child day care services" company, which she said had a single employee, on May 20, 2021, records show. 

  Jackson told her lender, Phoenix-based Prestamos CDFI LLC, that she needed a $20,832 federally-backed loan to cover "payroll" for her single employee. The loan accrued $274 in interest before being forgiven by the federal government, covered by taxpayers.

CityWire doing the investigative work that Cuck Goudie won't do,

Did you know that one Chicago neighborhood (West Garfield Park) accounted for 6,282 PPP loans totaling over $120 million?

And Auburn-Gresham racked up over $187 million in PPP loans....13 TIMES as many loans as it has actual licensed businesses.

All via the ChicagoCityWire.

Teach Teachers Not to Rape

Remember last summer (we think) where there was an unsubstantiated allegation that a cop from 010 had had illicit relations with an illegal alien resulting in a pregnancy? There were marches and protests and all sorts of bad publicity for the Department.

Only one thing missing though:

• an actual victim
  

COPA searched for a long time and came up empty....so they went to numerous other Districts, interviewing illegals in the lobby, desperately seeking a victim and came up with exactly zero.

Maybe they ought to re-invent themselves and look at the Chicago Public Schools? Hundreds of cases over there....with proof:

• A former student filed a sexual abuse lawsuit against Chicago Public Schools, claiming the district failed to protect her from a former dean of students. She spoke at a news conference on Thursday with her attorneys, saying she is speaking out so other alleged victims feel the freedom to come forward.

  ABC7 Chicago is not naming the woman, since she is a victim of alleged sexual assault.

  The lawsuit claims that CPS negligently hired, supervised and retained a former dean of students after the accusations. Brian Crowder, the former dean at Little Village Lawndale High School, was charged with felony criminal sexual assault in 2022.

  He was removed from his position by CPS in 2021.

  The victim, who was 15 at the time of the alleged abuse, said CPS failed to protect her, even after they learned of the alleged assault. The now 25-year-old claimed Crowder sexually abused her from 2013 to 2016. The lawsuit also alleges that Crowder subjected the victim to two pregnancies, coerced her to have two abortions and posed as her parent to sign off on the procedures while she was still a student.

Not just one pregnancy....but two. 

No wonder the Teachers' Union wants to keep parents in the dark about pronouns, transitioning kids to the genital choppers, and having CTU employees escort minor children to abortion centers. It's to cover up crimes.

Spring is in the Air

Along with a lot of lead:

• Final Demonized Tally: 10 killed, 43 wounded

A wise-ass commentator mentioned the weekend stats noted from HeyJackass.com

No real outrage though.

Get used to it.

Court Update

Again, with a two week break, the trial of the naked crackhead squad car stealing witch continues on 29 April with a single rebuttal witness on tap. It certainly seems like Crimesha's staff is trying their hardest to throw this case, putting up the barest of minimum efforts.

Someone located the job application that naked crackhead squad car stealing witch filled out and it turns out the single reference she listed is Roosevelt Martin, the Dean of the College of business at Chicago State University.

And it came out in courtroom testimony that naked crackhead squad car stealing witch listed as her previous employment "Paid Mayoral Campaign Organizer." 

She didn't say (or it wasn't revealed) which mayoral campaign she worked for, but given her west side history, we'd lay money it was Conehead. 

Interesting possible connections. Maybe the I-Team could investigate?

Larritorious Can't Believe It!

What we wrote about yesterday:

• The murder of a nine year old girl at a family party is prompting Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling to ask "Where's the (public) outrage?"

  As Snelling's CPD detectives work to identify the shooter or shooters, the I-Team has learned that dozens and dozens of shots were fired from an automatic weapon. "The number, the number of shell casings that were found at that location for multiple weapons. Right now I believe the number is 76," Snelling said.

  He said the spray of gunfire came from an automatic weapon. The guns most popular with street gang shooters these days are semi-auto pistols that have been illegally converted to machine-gun style weapons capable of rapid fire rounds that can unload dozens of shots in just seconds.

  "I would really like to know where the outrage is for that. I really like to know where the outrage is for people in this city who had been victimized who had been traumatized who are going to continue to go through that trauma," he said. An impassioned career police officer, Snelling looks at what happened and can hardly believe the lack of citywide furor.

Larry knows exactly what the issue is, but he's way too political to actually say it. Some lives only matter when political headlines can be exploited from them. Otherwise, it's the racism of low expectations.

And it is amusing he specifically said "seventy-six" shots, knowing that we pointed out cops only fired seventy-nine of the "ninety-six" the media is running with after Dexter's magazine dump.

This is Interesting

This was tucked away in a Tribune report about the currently room temperature Dexter:

• Andrew M. Stroth, an attorney representing Reed’s family, confirmed to the Chicago Tribune that Reed was previously shot. Stroth declined to specify what happened, but said the shooting left Reed with trauma that he was still grappling with at the time of his death.

  “Dexter sustained a serious injury from a family altercation in August of 2021. He was a competitive basketball player, an athlete, his entire life, and after that incident he spent several months recuperating and rehabilitating from that major injury,” Stroth said.

"family altercation":

• he was previously shot....by his own family!

So even they knew he was an asshole and someone did something about it. 

It seems there's little money suing your own family for shooting you though.

Censure on Tap?

Who voted this asshole into office?

• Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez, a member of the mayor’s leadership team, headlined an event Saturday at which some participants chanted “Death to America” and plotted ways to disrupt this summer’s Democratic National Convention in the city.

  Sigcho-Lopez made headlines last month for appearing at another anti-convention protest, where he spoke next to a burned American flag. His appearance at the March 22 event prompted a nearly two-hour discussion before the City Council and an effort to remove him as chairman of its housing committee. The measure failed in a 29-16 vote.

  After his most recent appearance at Saturday’s event, Sigcho-Lopez is facing a fresh wave of attention, given his role on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s leadership team.

You'd think a piece of shit like this, who is so unhappy here, would go to one of these commie shitholes he obviously admires.  And he could take his voters with him.

So where's the censure motion with the City Council? Maybe stripping him of committee assignments? Perhaps a removal from office? Oris it safe to assume the City Council supports this point-of-view?

Great Summer on Tap

Besides the usual hood crap, this will be a regular occurrence not doubt:

• Dozens were arrested Monday, after pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the roadway entering into Terminal 1 at O'Hare Airport.

  Friends and supporters waited outside Area Five police headquarters later Monday for the 40 people arrested to be released.

  Those arrested included 31 women and nine men, ages 19-43, according to Chicago police.

  At one point Monday morning, the pro-Palestinian protesters completely blocked access to Terminal 1 at the airport, and they blocked all lanes on westbound Interstate 190.

  Traffic came to a complete standstill right in the middle of rush hour at one of the busiest airports in the country.

Better brush up on the "mass arrest" procedures on all three watches, especially as delegates begin arriving at the end of summer.

Something Missing Here

Listen....do you hear that?

• 
  

Yeah, we don't hear it either:

• A mass shooting Saturday night in New City took the life of a 8-year-old girl and left three boys — ages 1, 8 and 9 — wounded, two critically, according to Chicago police.

  Seven adults were also wounded in the shooting.

  Officers responded to a Shotspotter alert that picked up 18 rounds fired about 9:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of West 52nd Street, according to Area 1 Deputy Chief Don Jerome.

  A family was gathered for a birthday party outside when gunmen opened fire with assault rifles and handguns, according to a police report. There were 75 shell casings recovered from the scene, according to the report. The first officers at the scene began lifesaving measures, including applying tourniquets and chest seal bandages.

Where to begin with this one?

Well let's see....a mass shooting, rifles and handguns, at a party filled with children....

• need more gun laws!

Shotspotter worked again, getting cops to the scene where they could perform lifesaving measures on numerous victims....

• better get rid of Shotspotter!
  

Seventy-five shots...or at least seventy-five empty cases recovered. Who knows, it might have been ninety-six!

• anyone know if the eight-year-old had any detentions or missing homework assignments?

Where's the outrage? The calls for more police, more patrols, more traffic stops, more lengthy incarceration for the monsters that would target a party full of kids? Seems to be missing.

In fact, the only one outraged in the entire article would seem to be Don Jerome.

Good Read by an Old Friend

If you want a logical and well written piece regarding police shootings, you don't go to the agenda driven media any more. Instead, you find a cop who has extensive experience in a wide array of roles.

You find a guy like friend-of-the blog Jack Dunphy:

• I can scarcely believe there's a need to write this piece, but this is the pretty pass we've come to.

  I offer here some advice that (one hopes) most PJ Media readers will find unnecessary: When stopped by the police, regardless of how unjustified you may find it, do as you are instructed. Lower your windows and unlock your doors when asked to do so, do not pull a gun, and, above all, do not shoot at them. If you do, it is a virtual certainty you will be shot, perhaps fatally.

  Learning this too late was the late Dexter Reed, Jr., of Chicago, who I suspect was not a PJ Media reader.

Mr Dunphy does us the honor of citing a few of our posts in his well written piece. We encourage everyone to go read it and seek out other things he's written over the years.

Funny Stuff

An oldie, but a goodie:

And very timely as the media is posting graduation pictures from eight years ago.

There was a website a few years back (or a planned one) that was going to sell this picture along with a selection of candles, empty liquor bottles and some other nonsense. Does anyone know if it ever got off the ground?

If not, feel free to steal the idea.

 

Slum Times Strikes Again

Airing out all sorts of unsustained allegations:

• The five Chicago police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Dexter Reed after his SUV was pulled over have been investigated a combined 41 times since 2019, with many of those complaints stemming from traffic stops.

Not a single sustained allegation by the way.

But this particular article doesn't once mention Dexter's previous weapon arrest. Why the double standard? If we're throwing out unsustained allegations, then a previous gun arrest deserves mention, along with alleged PPP fraud, right? Especially a gun arrest at a rather large public gathering where hundreds of innocent people (and folks) were potentially in danger!

The Slum Times also quotes the fake ACLU (All Criminals Love Us) stats regarding traffic stops:

• The American Civil Liberties Union last year filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department claiming officers make a disproportionate number of traffic stops in predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods.

To which we simply reply:

Cops go to where the crime is....and crime is (cough cough) disproportionate.

Graphic courtesy of HeyJackass.com

Do Nothing

So is this order actually written down? 

• SCC, the 3rd watch in Englewood was told yesterday that A1 DC has ordered NO traffic stops for minor violations! Just thought you should know
  

Or is this another one of those where the boss tells everyone to ...

• stand down, 
• slow roll, 
• cease and desist

...and then denies ever saying anything like that, and after a week, whines about numbers being down.

Dead PODs

Anyone know if there's a current listing of:

• POD camera locations, and
• POD cameras out of service?

Someone emailed us (and someone else commented) that many POD cameras are reaching the end of their effective lifespans (not to mention warranty expiration for parts) and the inoperative status is far past 25% non-functional, approaching 33%.

And Conehead is earmarking $70 million for illegals with almost nothing budgeted for POD maintenance, repair or replacement.

You know the media won't be asking anything like this.