Call Your Aldercreature Lady

Great advice from an OEMC supervisor:

• A Chicago mom is raising questions about the police response after two men broke into her Wicker Park home, with four hours elapsing before officers arrived after her 911 call. The homeowner, Michelle, doesn’t want us to show her face or use her full name because the would-be robbers have not been caught.

  She says she left her door open at approximately 12:30 p.m. after letting her dog out, and that's when two men entered the home. “I saw two men wearing masks standing inside my house,” She said. “I screamed – 'I am calling the police' and they bolted.”

  Michelle and a neighbor ran after the men. Then, she says she called 911.

  “They told me dispatch was on the way and wait outside,” she said.

Newsflash to NBC - dispatch isn't coming. You probably should have asked a couple follow-up questions at this point.

• Michelle said she waited and waited and waited some more. She called 911 multiple times, and on the sixth call, she asked for a supervisor.

  “ A gentleman got on and said sorry to say we have no units to send you…then there was an awkward pause,” she said. “He also recommended I call my alderman and I said why- and he said encourage him to hire more police. The dispatcher also asked me if I would consider defending myself …if I had a weapon or considered getting one.”

Now THAT has to be the best advice we've ever heard of - and from OEMC? We've given that advice to many people over the years:

• get a gun....and learn how to use it.

But now....is this a new OEMC poilicy? Because we will back them 100% on this one. You know why?

1. It is your God given Right to be able to defend yourself
2. The paperwork is at least a HUNDRED times easier

We'll gladly clean up dead home invaders for the last parts of our career and smile every single time. 

But back to the supposed issue - during the truly busy times (and they're about to get busier with the warm weather, school being out, convention time) and the massive retirement wave approaching, wait times are about to hit crisis levels.

To the citizens - this is what your political masters demanded. 

Get used to it.

Called It!

Diseases that had been all but wiped out in the nation, back with a vengeance.

But why?

• A report from the Centers for Disease Control has linked 84 percent of Chicago’s recent cases of measles back to the wave of illegal aliens from Venezuela.

  The report found that 84 percent of the identified cases were found in illegal aliens from Venezuela who were unvaccinated and can be traced to a single migrant boy who arrived in Chicago with the communicable disease, according to the Daily Mail.

  Fifty-seven cases were found in the same migrant shelter in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, the CDC added.

And what else?

• But Venezuela was not the only traced source of cases. The organization also noted that sixteen percent of the cases in Chicago could be traced back to people who contracted the disease in Peru and Chile.

Let's see....84% plus 16% equals.....100%.

All traceable to south of the border. And all a direct result of democrat "open borders" policy.

Be Aware

Given the unfolding situation in the Middle East:

• where the president of Iran and other government officials went down in helicopter crash 
• AND the fact that eight or ten million un-screened persons of unknown national origin have been pouring across the border these past few years 
• AND the ongoing Hamas-hole extermination efforts
  
• AND the feebs talking about "red lights flashing everywhere" as a sort of "don't blame us when we miss something" 

You might just want to be extra aware of certain situations and addresses and suspicious calls over the next few days and weeks.

Update to Below Post

As of 2000 hours Sunday, the weekend totals were:

• 3 dead, 39 wounded (per HeyJackass.com)
  

And over 60% of the carnage happened during that eight hour stretch we mentioned.

26 Shot Over 8 Hours

Maybe 9 hours - depends on how accurate your clock is - including 6 shot about eight-hundred feet from 011:

• Six people were shot and wounded Saturday night in East Garfield Park on the West Side — among at least 28 wounded in shootings overnight in Chicago.

  In the East Garfield Park incident, a group of men were standing in the street Just before 10 p.m. in the 700 block of South Albany Avenue when they were struck by gunfire from an unknown number, striking them, Chicago police said.

SCC SIDE NOTE - check out that underlined paragraph. We don't know if the Slum Times is using AI to do their writing lately or if that's yet another CPS hire via DEI University or what.

We read that the ET's had to send out for extra crime scene markers and ShotSpotter gave up counting the discharges at eighty and demanded a pay raise.

Remember - if the gunman/gunmen are pulled over later tonight for failing to signal a turn on their way to the next mass shooting scene, Crimesha will refuse to prosecute them.

Another Suicide

Didn't we used to get all sorts of notifications when these incidents occurred? Emails from the Supe's office, exempts appearing at Roll Calls, reminders about help being available from various Department resources.

This one flew under our radar:

• The death of an off-duty Chicago police officer found Thursday inside a West Loop residence has been ruled a suicide.

  The 29-year-old man was found about 2:35 p.m. inside a home in the 1600 block of West Warren Boulevard with a gunshot wound to the head, Chicago police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

  Autopsy results released Friday ruled his death a suicide, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

  He is at least the second CPD officer to have died by suicide this year.

Usually we'd get more than a few e-mails from Officers alerting us to these unfortunate and tragic occurrences. We found out via two, maybe three comments. Granted, we're spending the last of our furlough time at the moment before making a clean break from here, but still....

Has the Department fallen so far that no one is even shocked or saddened by this any more? It's become....expected?

You Know What We Need?

A force. 

A force that operates during the warm weather.

A force, versatile enough to respond to all sorts of incidents on the lakefront, where millions go every year as the weather warms up.

• Chicago city leaders say they are increasing police and safety patrols along the lakefront since crowds have flocked to the shoreline with the stunning weather. 

  CBS 2 saw a few people turned away because they were trying to bring in alcohol. It's one result of the increased police presence as the city tries to prevent more significant problems.
  

We could call it the Warm Weather Versatile Force.

Too bad manpower shortages (and house mouse over-staffing) won't allow CPD to patrol the beaches effectively.

(yeah, we know SMF didn't usually start until Memorial Day, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know a warm stretch of weekend days means extra thousands of people in lakefront Districts)

Getting Closer

Now Cook county deputies are facing charges:

• A former Cook County Jail guard has been charged with defrauding the federal Paycheck Protection Program that was created to help struggling businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

So we've had ISP, a couple lowly blue shirts, a jail guard.

Now how about the two or three dozen teachers, twenty-plus dispatchers and half a dozen gold stars from CPD?

Crimesha Luvs Sex Offenders!

Some of the aldercreatures aren't happy with Crimesha saying she won't do her job:

• A Chicago alderman blasted Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx as “the biggest pro-criminal advocate in the nation” after Foxx revealed plans not to prosecute crimes based on evidence police discover during most traffic stops.

  Foxx said her office would refuse to file charges in most cases if evidence was found during a traffic stop for missing license plates, expired registrations, and other minor infractions. She called the anticipated change “a public safety enhancement effort.”

  Gun and drug charges are among the kinds of cases Foxx would not pursue under the plan.

  Ald. Silvana Tabares (23rd) is among the public officials who don’t support Foxx’s plan.

Could it have anything to do with this? 

• Beginning May 20, NBC 5 Chicago & Telemundo Chicago will deliver a new, unprecedented series – “Dismissed” / “Buscando Justicia” – uncovering the startling details behind a six-month investigation on the minimal number of sexual assault arrests and convictions in the City of Chicago over the past six years.

  The three-part series will air on NBC 5 News & Noticiero Telemundo Chicago at 10 p.m. on May 20-22.

  NBC 5 Investigates reporter Bennett Haeberle, along with Telemundo Investiga reporter Jorge DeSantiago, examined the details of every sexual assault case reported to the Chicago Police Department over the last six years

Who has been in charge of criminal prosecutions for the past seven-and-a-half years?

• Crimesha

And who has something like a 7% charging rate for rapists?

• Crimesha

And who has presided over hundreds of dismissals? And of the few dozen actual convictions, who has let 49% go without a single day served behind bars?

• Crimesha

So not only does she luv her some criminals, she actively hates women who get raped. Who, ironically, were among her biggest supporters during both her election victories.

Overreach?

Sorry, but we don't trust this asshole any farther than we can throw him:

• In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal tangles or mental health issues — three-quarters of them haven’t surrendered their firearms, according to data the Cook County sheriff will present Thursday.

  Sheriff Tom Dart is seeking $10 million from state lawmakers to tackle what he calls in naming the report “A Firearm Regulation Crisis.” The money would train and equip more door-knocking officers to retrieve or ensure the safe storage of weapons from those who have had their state Firearm Owners Identification cards rescinded.

  The aim would be reducing the chance potentially volatile people would exhibit the type of violence seen when a shooter who wasn’t allowed to own a firearm carried out a massacre at Henry Pratt Co. in a Chicago suburb.

The failures across all levels of government here are quite astonishing:

• gun owners who have their FOID card revoked are sent a letter to surrender or transfer their guns to a qualified individual or nearest police station;
• should the now-revoked person failure to complete the required paperwork, another stern letter is sent...again and again and again and....
  

We don't think felons or domestic abusers (looking at you Steinberg) or the mentally ill should have guns. In those cases, a lengthy and thorough investigation should have taken place and been adjudicated in a court of law....just not a court in Cook county.

But what happens if the current FOID case working its way through the courts ends with the card being declared unconstitutional? Don't worry....they'd NEVER go door-to-door trying to take guns.

Won't Do the Job?

Well there's a surprise....not:

• Under a new policy draft, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) would not prosecute gun, drug or stolen property cases if they’re the result of what’s considered a non-public safety stop, aka a traffic stop for a reason that doesn’t pose a safety threat.

  Examples of a non-public safety stop include being pulled over for an expired plate, registration or a broken light.

  The draft policy also states the CCSAO would not prosecute a case if the search was based on consent, but occurred without probable cause.

Never mind that the US Supreme Court has ruled  these stops are completely legal and justified by existing Law.

And pay no attention to someone who has never served in the Legislature single-handedly making up the law as she goes along, like the shoplifting law or the Juicy Smollet debacle or constantly failing to prosecute straw buyers, gun offenders, rapists, burglars, battery offenders, etc.

Or the fact that the exodus of actual intelligent prosecutors from her office resembles the engine room of the Titanic at 2341 hours on 14 April 1912.

Crimesha hasn't been doing her job since day one. She exists to free criminals, smear police, and contribute to the increased shitty-ness of blue state shithole cities.

Again?

Larritorious really ought to fire this Yoli-yo:

• A lawsuit has been filed by Aileen Robinson against the City of Chicago and Yolanda Talley in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The case, identified as 2024-cv-3329, was lodged on April 25, 2024. Robinson alleges that she has been a victim of harassment, intimidation, and retaliation by the Chicago Police Department where she serves as the assistant director for crime victim services.

  Robinson's complaint details a hostile work environment characterized by inappropriate behavior from high-ranking officials within the police department. The lawsuit also mentions an incident where a senior police department official aggressively grabbed Robinson after she complained about these acts. She further alleges that her complaints led to retaliation including a year-long internal affairs investigation into her conduct and a three-week unpaid suspension.

We don't even care about the merits of this particular case. 

Where there's smoke, there's fire. And where there's someone getting arrested using your car for running dope around the city, there's an even bigger scandal just waiting to embarrass Larry....and Conehead.

Crimesha Luvs Criminals!

In fact, she hugs murderers:

• Of all the political ideas ever institutionalized in a system of government, none has proven wiser and more effective than the notion of checks and balances by the founding fathers.

  A process of giving final authority to the people while checking their power from the excesses of fanaticism, factional dominance, and revolution, all rooted in the conception of individual freedom as a god-given right, the American system has unleashed a creativity, productivity, and stability hitherto never seen in any civilization, despite its many failings.

  Now the country is threatened from within by once-democratic cities that have cast off the system of checks and balances in favor of one-party rule, a rule that spells catastrophe for not only the city, but the rest of the nation.

Marty Preib goes on to describe the rise of Crimesha to the highest levels of government despite her obvious and criminal incompetence....not to mention her history of domestically abusing her husband:

• So powerful has Foxx become that she not only doesn’t disguise her corruption, but she flaunts it, as if daring anyone to question it. Consider the fact that time and again she is caught lying, breaking the law and established rules of procedure, and there are no consequences for it. Caught red-handed lying about the Jussie Smollett case, nothing happened to Foxx.

And the topper:

• According to the article, Foxx visited a state prison and just happened to bump into Jose Cruz, a convicted murderer of a 16-year-old kid serving a 90-year sentence.

  Foxx had something to tell Cruz, according to the article:

  Foxx told Cruz that just the day before, her office had discussed his post-conviction review case…Cruz said he met Foxx again by the door at the conclusion of the ceremony. “She called me over,” Cruz said. “Gave me a hug and said, ‘God bless you; you’re going home.’”

  How ’bout that? Foxx is roaming around a state prison, schmoozing with convicted killers and promising them they are soon to be out of prison. In that regard, she is not making false promises. She has released more than 250 inmates from prison, on “exonerations.” To accomplish this incredible feat, Foxx needed an obsequious, amoral media to hide the vast evidence that these exonerations are frauds. The offenders were legitimately convicted because they were legitimately guilty.

She works hand-in-glove with the entirely corrupt media here in town, being the best public defender that the prosecutor's office ever produced. We can safely say that Crimesha has contributed to more minority maimings, rapes and murders than any "white supremacist" the current administration could dream up.

Radio Etiquette?

We're pretty sure it is a requirement to identify yourself over the radio when transmitting. We know a couple people who got suspended for carrying those off-brand transceivers and a few others who got tagged when misusing Department radios for harassing or inappropriate transmissions.

We're old enough to remember a couple incidents where the FCC tracked down civilians using Department frequencies and charging them federally for interfering with communications.

So why would this idiot get a pass?

• 11th district commander gets testy with dispatcher: Chicago/Ridgeway

  A unit came over the radio and said someone was hit by a car.

  About a minute, later a unit who doesn't identify themselves says "How about giving her some medical attention, hello?"

  The dispatcher snaps back "Uh, what are you doing? You can go help."

  The unit then says "How about I'm 1100 and I'm watching it from the pods, thank you."

  "Ok fire is en route. We have units on scene and fire is en route. So if this is 1100, identify yourself we'll let them know you're watching."

  The unit then says "Yeah, they know I'm watching. They know I'm always watching."

  "Ok thanks" says the dispatcher.

  1100 is the commander of the 11th district, Davina Ward.

We didn't know that CPD controlled the response times of CFD. 

Perhaps Larritorious could remind his "meritorious" command staff that General Orders apply to them, too, including the ones that they'd be so happy to hammer a blue shirt with.

We're #4!! We're #4!!

Or will be shortly as Conehead continues the failed "progressive" policies:

• Chicago could soon lose its status as the third-largest city in the U.S., according to data from the Census Bureau.

  The numbers released Thursday showed the Windy City lost approximately 0.3% of its population between July 1, 2022 and July 1, 2023. According to the data, the city went from a population of 2,672,660 to 2,664,452.

  Both New York and Los Angeles, the No. 1 and No. 2 cities when it comes to population size in the U.S., also saw declines in population. During that same time period, Houston, which has been just behind Chicago in population numbers for several years, continued to grow in size. According to data, the Texas city grew by 0.5% to 2,314,157.

Illinois will probably lose another Congressional seat by 2030, thanks to the morons running the show.

Um....Normal?

We were greatly amused to see this article:

• Just what does it mean to be “normal”?

  Recently, the Washington Post used U.S. Census data to determine which U.S. state best represents “normal” America as a whole.

  The study was undertaken by Lenny Bronner, the paper’s political statmeister, crunching Census numbers on 30 socioeconomic factors such as race, religion, income, education, jobs, and social issues — and found that Illinois most closely resembled the U.S. average. As explained by WaPo, based on data overall, it’s difficult to tell the U.S. from Illinois when looking at the data on paper.

There's a reason the vaudeville persons of yesteryear always asked, "Will it play in Peoria?" seeing as how Peoria was seen as a bellwether for new material and later, political positions. It was "Everytown, USA."

But being the sarcastic types that we are, we have to ask:

• did this survey actually include Chicago?
  

Given the extra high tax rates of the Windy City, along with averaging over five-hundred murders annually and the still-climbing carjacking/car theft rates and non-prosecution of the same, we'd hope that that would make Illinois less normal.

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

Who are you going to believe? The government or your own goddamn lying eyes?

• In recent weeks the Biden administration and many news outlets, including USA Today and The Hill, have touted declines in violent crime statistics to argue that America is becoming a safer place. 

  “Right now, with 2023 figures and early 2024, the trends are all pointing down, in a positive direction,” Jeff Asher, whose New Orleans-based AH Datalytics is developing his own “Real-Time Crime Index,” told RealClearInvestigations.
  

Remember, New York, LA and Chicago have ALL failed to report crime stats for at least a year, perhaps as many as three years. So these "trends" are merely blurry snapshots taken in the dark by a crappy 35mm kodachrome camera with a dirty lens.

Crime is up across the board. Maybe not in certain categories, but in grand totals and crimes per capita, the trends are easily observable.

Sometimes, even the untrustworthy FBI lets the truth slip out:

• Assaults on law enforcement officers are at the highest level they have been in ten years, the FBI revealed. There were 79,091 total officers assaulted in 2023 — the highest number reported in a single year within the past ten, according to data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.

  In 2023, the most common time these strikes occurred was during responses to simple assaults against non-officers, with 6,783 reported incidents, according to the FBI. Responses to drug/narcotics violations followed as the second most common instance of officer assaults, at 4,879.

  Using firearms, assailants injured and assaulted approximately 466 officers in 2023, which is another ten-year high, the FBI reported.

  More officers were feloniously killed at 194 total deaths between 2021 and 2023 than in any other three-year period within the past 20 years, according to the FBI. Sixty officers were killed in 2023, 61 officers in 2022 and 73 in 2021.

And that's (probably) without NYC, LA and Chicago numbers. It's almost never been more dangerous to be the police, and manpower issues are exacerbating the problem.

Pre-Trial Release in DC

Remember, a white guy with an AR-15 is the most dangerous person on the planet.

But a minority yute? That's an I-bond:

• A Washington DC judge has sparked backlash after releasing a teenager accused of spraying a sleepy neighborhood with bullets from an AR-15. Judge Lloyd U. Nolan Jr., a self-described 'woke' magistrate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, ruled that Amonte Moody, 18, be released on bail ahead of his trial. 

  The 18-year-old allegedly peppered a street with 26 rounds while targeting a car of four people at 2:30am on April 22, with Ring doorbell footage capturing a suspect shooting wildly from the hip with the assault rifle. Nobody was injured or killed in the shooting spree, which unfolded just over a mile from the US Capitol. Despite the chaos he allegedly caused, Nolan granted Moody pre-trial release and home arrest. 

  After his decision raised eyebrows, Fox News reported that his online presence included a post where he said he was 'still woke', and another where he donated to a fundraiser supporting a George Soros-backed professor.
  

And speaking of "assault weapons," has anyone heard anything lately about the Fata$$ registration scheme? Is it still active? Is compliance still hovering around 2%?

We went out of state the other week and there was a sale on 30-round magazines. Not a single serial number on any of them, so we had no idea how to register anything. Fortunately, they all blew out the window as we crossed the Mississippi River, so we were spared any uncomfortable questions by ISP.

Fed-napping Hoax

More and more reasons to disband the FBI keep coming to light:

• As the country is a hot mess of horrible in more ways than one under the current leadership, it's easy for things to sort of fall off your radar. Take for example, the FEDnapping hoax aka a so-called plot from a Michigan milita to kidnap Gretchen Whimer.

  You guys remember that, yes? When a militia was somehow inspired by Trump or white supremacy or something to try and kidnap GRETCH?

  Yeah, it sounds stupid when you see it like that but ... it was real.

  A real hoax, that is.

The link up top shows a whole bunch of.....what's that word again? Oh yeah, entrapment. There were probably more feds than militia members in this whole debacle acting as provocateurs, supplying ideas and phone contacts to imaginary explosive dealers, to a bunch of hillbillies who were drunk and high most of the time.

Instead of investigating crime, they're creating it out of whole cloth.

Well This is Appalling

Remember "Believe all women"? There was plenty of malfeasance and evil brought to light. But it also went obscenely too far, being turned into a political weapon where accusations against those on the right were "believed" absent proof and far beyond the Statute of Limitations, while anyone accusing, let's say Clinton or Biden, were dismissed out of hand.

It also led to statements like this regarding that paragon of leftist thought and leftist political donations -  the Chicago Public School system and their battle to keep hundreds of sex assaults under wraps:

• In fighting Jane Doe's lawsuit, CPS is paying an expert witness, Chicago psychiatrist Dr. Prudence Gourguechon, to testify about her views on childhood sexual abuse, student-teacher sexual relationships, and the impact of trauma after sexual abuse.

  CBS 2 exclusively obtained deposition video from Jane Doe's attorney, in which Dr. Gourguechon shares some controversial opinions.

  For example, when asked if under any circumstance is a teacher having sex with a student in high school is not sexual abuse, Dr. Gourgeuchon said, "I don't know if every circumstance would qualify as sexual abuse."

  When asked if sexual assault is traumatic for the person experiencing it, she said: "It depends. It depends on the detail and how they're defining who's claiming what and what actually happened. I can't make an across-the-board statement."

When the power dynamic is so out of whack....AND the thing about minor children not being able to legally consent to a sexual relationship with a teacher, this "expert witness" thinks that sexual assaults might not be traumatic.

So it's "Don't believe all women (or minor children) when they accuse a member of a union that sends 99% of it's political donations to democrats."

Remember, this has been going on for years....decades even.

Congratulations Honor Guard

Well done:

• Hey SCC,
  
  
  Just wanted to let you know the CPD Honor Guard has done us all proud again by bringing home the Chief Judges Award for the National Honor Guard Competition.  I was there to see it and there was not a dry eye in the house.  I hope someone recorded it so everyone can see.  The families of Areanah Preston and Andres Vasquez-Lasso were there and it was extremely moving.  Nice job Honor Guard! Keep it up, you make us proud!

If someone has video, let us know.

Here's the Plan!

Pray for bad weather and a "virtual convention:"

• When Chicago hosted it's last convention in 1996, the police department here was comprised of 13,032 sworn officers. This August the number will be far fewer: nearly 1,500 fewer officers available to keep the peace than in 1996.

  The last official count of CPD sworn officer is 11,591. That is 1,150 below what the city is budgeted to hire.

  Retirement and lack of interest are some of the reasons the police payroll has plummeted. Just five years ago, there were more than 13,000 men and women in blue.

  For Chicago's Superintendent of Police Larry Snelling, staffing for the Democratic National Convention couldn't be more crucial.

Cuck Goudie has top billing on this story, which is pretty much smoke being blown up someone's ass. 

No one is going to tell the media what the actual plans are, and it's really no secret that not only are the "official numbers" down by 1,150 bodies, the number of house-mouses since 1996 has nearly tripled, which means street strength is something around 6,500 divided across three watches in 22 Districts.

Count on being outnumbered.

These Terrorist Enablers?

 These are the leftist loons who can't even label panti-fa as a terror organization:

• A leading civil rights organization sent a letter Tuesday urging Mayor Brandon Johnson and his handpicked police superintendent to conduct a more thorough investigation into cops linked to the Oath Keepers, a far-right group at the center of the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

  The letter from the Southern Poverty Law Center pushes Johnson and Police Supt. Larry Snelling to reconsider the decision not to take disciplinary action against eight officers connected to the Oath Keepers, six of whom admitted during an internal probe to joining the group.

  The letter was also signed by a group of Johnson allies: progressive alderpersons Desmon Yancy (5th); Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th); Jessie Fuentes (26th); Rossana Rodriguez (33rd); and Carlos Ramirez Rosa (35th).

There was an investigation. It found nothing.

If new evidence comes to light - which it won't - you could open a new investigation, but this one is dead, closed, not sustained. Hell, they can't even use the "Matt Rodriguez Rule" on anyone involved because there's zero evidence they ever met with anyone convicted of a felony. 

Freedom of Association applies across the board, right? So anyone on a panti-fa mailing list? Or a Hamas-hole supporting Facebook page (they're an actual TERRORIST organization designated by the US Government). Maybe a little #BuyLargeMansions instagram linking? 

And the alder-assholes....they're all communists, correct?

38%?

Rumor keeps popping up about the Sergeant test:

• Passing part one will be....38%
  

We didn't bother taking it....but seriously? 38%?

We know the kids can't read or add, but do you really want some "meri-clout-orious" thirty-eight-percenter running your shooting scene? Handling your TRR? Filling out your IOD report?

We Picked the Wrong Career

Mamma should have told us to grow up and be Consent Decree monitors.

Has anyone surfed this website?

Check out the billing amounts....the first three months of 2023, they're averaging $300,000 in billable hours.

Dive into the line items and they're charging:

• $435 per hour for meetings
• $395 per hour for emailing
• $395 per hour for zoom conferences

An investigative reporter could do an entire series on this colossal waste of money. Or a bored reader.

Sending a Message

Hopefully, it's getting louder (from a few days ago):

• Chicago residents expressed frustration and anger with President Biden ahead of his visit to the city, warning that Black voters are turning on the Democratic Party in huge numbers.

  P-Rae Easley and Betty Guider joined "Fox & Friends First" Wednesday to explain why they think the city is no longer "the Democratic stronghold that they anticipated."

  "The city is completely fed up with the Democratic Party. We are stepping over illegals every day. They are now trying to break into people's homes. Gas is through the roof, groceries are through the roof, violence is up. Nothing is comfortable here under Democratic leadership. We're all moving on," said Easley. 

  Guider explained that the Democratic Party has always counted on support from the Black community, but now Democrats seem to have stopped trying to appeal to Black voters.

As we've been saying here and elsewhere, if you don't like your voters (and democrats hate their voters since they've proven they'd vote for Trump at least once) it's easier to replace them rather than change your message.

Sure you might lose an election or two in between times, but in a generation or so, they'll (hopefully) be voting for the communist / fascist / totalitarian regime that all lefties aspire to.

Pedo Joe

Just so you're all aware, Snopes, the "fact checking" website, has changed the rating on the Ashley Biden Diary story from "False" to "True" meaning everything she wrote in the diary wasn't the product of a right-wing conspiracy smear job, but was in fact, factual:

• Ashley Biden wrote a letter to the judge confirming the diary is real and belongs to her.

In case you needed a reminder - or an enlightenment since the media has been hiding this story for three or more years next to the Hunter Biden computer story - president girl sniffer took showers with Ashley up to an "inappropriate age" and Ashley uses the word "molested" in her narrative.

Pushback Works....See?

Anyone think she learned something?

• New details have emerged about a South Side shooting earlier this that injured a 13-year-old girl.

  Chicago police say the girl was trying to steal a car when she was shot.

  The shooting happened Tuesday around 7:49 a.m. in the 8200-block of South Commercial Avenue in the South Chicago neighborhood.

  According to police, a woman fired her gun at the girl and a 14-year-old boy when they tried to take her SUV.

We see a few dozen more of these, maybe a hundred or so, and Chicago will start seeing some real crime reductions.

Bigger reductions than what Crimesha, Conehead, Fata$$, Prickwrinkle, and Evans have planned, that's for sure.

Chronic Absenteeism

Here's a place for all those people demanding "accountability" to look .... just kidding! It's still the schools:

• Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson recently traveled to Springfield with a big wish list of stuff he wants from state lawmakers. Among them, $1 billion in extra funding for Chicago Public Schools.

  We have a host of reasons why his demand should be categorically rejected. Among them, CPS already spends $29,000 per student, Chicago teachers are already among the nation’s highest paid in big cities and the Chicago Teachers Union refuses to close the many empty, failing schools across the district. Not to mention that both CPS and CTU refuse to hold themselves accountable to students. Just 20% of minority CPS children can read at grade level and in math it’s even worse.

  Now add to that the growing rate of teachers simply not showing up to school. The U.S. Department of Education’s definition of chronic teacher absenteeism is 10 or more absences in a school year.

  In CPS, the share of teachers who are chronically absent has jumped to 43% from 28% just seven years ago. The jump can’t be blamed on the pandemic, as the rate of absenteeism was rising (from 28% to 36%) even before covid hit.

They're not teaching, kids can't read nor do math, the rate of sex offenders almost matches the Catholic Church, and the massive property tax hike they'll need to cover raises will continue to drive out the middle class.

They can't be trusted with the billions they're already stealing, so why give them more?

Wasn't This Decided Already?

Dozens of hours of tedious learning emphasized this:

• The California Supreme Court declared that law enforcement officers cannot detain individuals because they attempt to avoid police contact. This unanimous decision has stirred a significant response from police unions, who argue that it will hamper their ability to maintain public safety effectively.

  The court, in a 7-0 decision, stated that actions such as appearing to conceal oneself or acting nervously do not alone provide a sufficient basis for officers to detain individuals.

  This was elaborated in an opinion by Justice Carol Corrigan, emphasizing that while such behaviors could be considered within a broader context, they do not meet the threshold of “reasonable suspicion of criminal activity” necessary to legally detain someone.

If we're remembering, these behaviors can be used as a foundation for "reasonable articulable suspicion," just not as the sole reason for a stop. From what we're reading, it looks like this was used as the only reason for a stop, which as a Consent Decree Department, we know is improper. In fact, it's so improper, we are reminding Officers to exercise extreme caution during August so that they don't get caught up in similar type of situation. 

We'd recommend ten or twenty observations before taking action, just to make sure.

Another Coverup?

It makes democrats look bad, so yeah, it's a coverup:

• A Cook County judge on Friday ordered factual documents sealed in the highly-scrutinized case of a man accused of killing 11-year-old Jayden Perkins and injuring his pregnant mother in a stabbing in their Edgewater apartment.

  Crosetti Brand, 37, who has a documented history of violence against women, is charged with murder, attempted murder and other felonies in a March attack he allegedly perpetrated just one day after he was released from prison where he was sent after threatening Jayden’s mother weeks earlier. The killing spurred grief and outrage in the community and raised questions about safeguards for domestic violence victims and the Illinois Prisoner Review Board’s handling of Brand’s release.

  Judge Angela Petrone took the unusual step of sealing documents that contain “factual allegations or summaries” in a case of such high interest to the public, ruling that there are “limited circumstances” that overrule the public’s right to access information about court cases.

No there aren't "limited circumstances." This was a Grade A f#$% up by the Parole Board, the Fata$$ appointees, Crimesha's office and a few others.

And now, there's Judge Petrone running cover for the party of criminals.

UPDATE: Our opinion is our opinion and we haven't been shy about it after living here our entire lives:

• There is not one single 100% honest judge in all of Cook County and not one single judge worth a retention vote.

Operation Greylord proved that, and the only reason that ever got shut down was the feds (who could barely be trusted back then) couldn't stop catching crooked lawyers, cops, clerks, and judges, with a politician tossed in for good measure. The trials took ten years and we remember a bunch of them. We also remember, Gambat, Safebet and Silver Shovel having their origins in the Cook County system.

You want to defend Petrone, fine. Good for you. Glad she had a successful career.

But she has to play politics, too. And we haven't been shy about that either.

Even the Left is Worried

When you've lost Politico, you've lost a big part of the left wingnuts:

• CHICAGO — President Joe Biden’s top advisers are all too aware the ghosts of 1968 may haunt their convention here, but they’re grappling with a pair of more urgent and thoroughly modern-day challenges as summer nears: How far can they go in reprising their virtual 2020 convention to mitigate the threat of disruption inside the arena, and how will they navigate a rookie mayor who unabashedly sympathizes with protesters?

  Trumpeting the success of their Covid-era convention four years ago, some in Biden’s orbit are aggressively pushing to make the 2024 conclave a hybrid production. That would mean in-person speeches from the president, party luminaries and rising stars to draw television attention alongside a mix of pre-recorded testimonials and videos from other parts of the country.

  The goal: drive maximum viewership on television and the internet while minimizing live programming and openings for protest in Chicago’s United Center. This would mean moving party business, such as rules and platform votes, off the floor and denying would-be demonstrators a chance to seize on contentious debates.

Perhaps we'll see the first AI assisted presidential campaign since mush-brain can't stop crapping his pants, tripping up stairs and glitching worse than Max Headroom.

Maybe they can convince transtifa to protest virtually?

Anyone know how to use a "virtual baton" to "vitually" smack the crap out of a black bloc jagoff?

Pushback Works

The Blogfather (Instapundit) says what many have known for years:

• Pushback works.

  That’s the lesson of the pro-Hamas protests on college campuses, and the reaction to them.  It’s a lesson that many of us need to take to heart.

  With support from lefty foundations and NGOs, and training from professional leftists activists, pro-Hamas encampments were established at campuses all across America.  Libraries were the victim of rampages, Jewish students literally wound up hiding in attics, were assaulted, and were taunted and greeted with chants of “go back to Poland.”  “Checkpoints” manned by Hamas sympathizers barred Jewish students, or anyone who wouldn’t renounce “Zionism,” from some parts of campus.  American flags were torn down and replaced with Palestinian flags.   It looked as if the protesters had the momentum, as university administrations responded supinely.  And then, something happened.

  People fought back.  Mostly fraternity guys, who in this season have become the defenders of Western civilization.

He notes that college administrators are spineless ball-less jellyfish who "go with the flow" as far as protests. The catalyst for them being moved to action (calling for cops) is when there's a reaction to the nonsense on campus, because now, the potential for massive violence is suddenly very real. 

It's not to dissimilar to when it is said, "The police aren't there to protect the public. They're there to protect the criminal from the public." Because once the public gets fed up, the criminal or the protestors or the transtifa crowd isn't going to like what happens when their tactics and such are turned around on them.

It's occurring semi-regularly now, just a bit under the radar.

How Bad Was It?

Who schedules a promotional exam on a weekday? During rush hour?

• You've got to hear bout the sgts test. Total S.show. Doors close @ 0900. Just kidding, you can come whenever you want. Made the rest of us who were responsible sit there for hours extra. Also, no electronics but you can bring your phone and delay the process even longer. There has to be a beef about letting slackers in past the time. How can you qualify for sgt if you can't show up on time? No excuses. I made it there from about as far Northwest as you can come from. Also, all the brass there giving hugs to candidates. The fix is in. Fop?

So we heard that over 3,600 people signed up, maybe a bit more. 

Traffic was a disaster, so that even those who built in a big cushion for arrival times were in danger of missing the 0900 cut off time. And McCormick Place staff were being unreasonable with parking "restrictions," so much so that dozens of Officers ended up with parking tickets.

However, the Department did make allowances for the unforeseen dumb-ass planning and sheer incompetency of coordinating, seeing as how almost 500 Officers arrived after 0900. 

We heard that since the Consent Decree people don't work weekends, they're the ones who insisted on a weekday test.

UPDATE: Numerous stories about Larritorious and other exempts - none of whom ever passed a promotional exam high enough to make it by score - giving good luck speeches.

The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Like a bad penny, Groot keeps turning up. And it looks like her big mouth is going to cost taxpayers money:

• It is a battle not over what was said, but whether the public will ever get a chance to hear it.

  Attorneys for the city of Chicago squared off in a Daley Center courtroom Friday over a deposition former Mayor Lori Lightfoot gave in a wrongful death case brought as a result of a 2020 traffic collision that took the life of 10-year-old Da’Karia Spicer.

  [...] According to police, they were struck by a black sedan that was trying to avoid being pulled over. The family insists the vehicle was being chased by an unmarked police car during an unauthorized pursuit.

  [...] Part of the lawsuit involves a recent deposition from Lightfoot. Attorneys for the city's Law Department argued Friday it should be kept under wraps.

  "Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot was not the least bit bashful about offering her opinions about the facts of this case the day after it happened," said Lance Northcutt, who represents the estate of Da’Karia Spicer. "For Lightfoot and the city’s Law Department to try and prevent her words from appearing in any public record when those words are highly relevant to the claims that will be litigated at trial is an outrage."

Groot couldn't keep her mouth shut because she always had to prove she was the smartest, loudest, big-dicked mayor Chicago ever had, instead of just an annoying pretentious small Ohio town hick with no people skills. And giving off-the-cuff statements about matters that hadn't even been investigated is probably going to cost Chicagoans more money.

But don't worry - they'll blame the police and not the mayor that couldn't shut up.

PPP Scandal Continues

But not at OEMC and barely with the schools. 

Only when police are involved:

• Two Illinois State Police officers from the Chicago area are suspected of defrauding the federal Paycheck Protection Program that provided loans to businesses struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  On their loan applications, one said he ran a sports program for kids, listing “babysitting” as the primary purpose for his business. The other said he was a “handyman.”

  The agency has filed complaints against the officers with the Illinois State Police Merit Board, which metes out discipline.

  The state police provided the complaints to the Chicago Sun-Times....

Two? That's it?

OEMC has upwards of twenty employees under investigation. The schools, probably closer to fifty. And the Slum Times doesn't seem to be filing any FOIA requests for those investigations.

Guess we know where the priorities lie.