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?

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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.

Well, Well, Well

You knew there had to be a tie-in:

• Chicago Contrarian @ChicagoContrar1: The convicted felon who opened fire on CPD in March, wounding one officer, also received $20K in PPP loans for his "transportation" business. Watch Chicago media spin this to portray Reed as an entrepreneur.

Any guesses as to:

• how Dexter paid for a new car?
• how Dexter paid for a gun?

ZERO mentions in any media outlets aside from the Contrarian.

Not even Cuck Goudie.

Quick Hits

As readers know, this week has been dominated by one particular story. We do a lot of reading most days, so things we bookmarked for posting and commentary got shunted to the side for the bigger event. Here's some of the things we read earlier this week that cops might find interesting.

Once again, massive unexpected increases in heart issues among persons who are probably in the top 1% of healthy people:

• Vaccine-Related Heart Conditions Among Navy Pilots: In 2022, striking increases in myocarditis, hypertensive disease, ischemic heart disease, pulmonary heart disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and other forms of heart disease were reported when compared to the average of the preceding five years. This alarming trend, underscored by a 151% spike in myocarditis cases, raises essential questions about the possible link between these health issues and the COVID-19 vaccines.

"Trust the science!" they said, except these guys and gals didn't have a choice if they wanted to keep flying.

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That Bears stadium on the lakefront? Might not be a done deal:

• Bears President Kevin Warren sounds like a man in a hurry when it comes to building a domed stadium adjacent to Soldier Field. But the advocacy group that has long served as the lakefront’s primary protector is saying, “Not so fast.”

  Gin Kilgore, acting executive director of Friends of the Parks, is not about to go along with what she called Warren’s “Buy now, this deal won’t last!” sales pitch. The Bears met with Friends of the Parks March 21 and gave leaders of the group a glimpse of the team's vision for a lakefront stadium.

  “We need to slow down ... We need a lot of scrutiny because this isn’t just about the lakefront. ... It’s about public financing. It’s about community development. ... The Bears ...were going to leave us for three years and now, they want to come back,” Kilgore said.

Friends of the Parks have been the stalwart defenders of keeping the lake front open and accessible to all Chicagoans, not just the moneyed class who want to buy and restrict access. They kept George Lucas from dumping a ridiculous "museum" on the lake front - and seeing what Star Wars has become, that was a great move. The Bears shouldn't be selling any land in Arlington Heights any time soon.

[edit] As a commenter reminded us, the Friends of the Parks did allow the city to steal a huge chunk of park land for the Sparklefart Library, so they're obviously swayed by politics.

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Why is gun crime in Chicago up? Because the feds won't prosecute:

• Chicago is flooded with firearms, more than almost anywhere in the country, but federal prosecutors in the city are less likely to approve gun charges than their counterparts in most other cities.

  A massive new data release by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shows that more ownership traces of “crime guns” recovered by law enforcement agencies were done in Chicago than anywhere except Houston from 2017 through 2021.

  Yet federal prosecutors in Chicago were ranked in the bottom eight of the country's 94 federal court districts in the percentage of gun cases they approve, according to the report...

We guess when 85%-to-95% of your gun offenders are of a certain background, a high conviction rate could be interpreted in an unflattering light.

Useless Quotes and Ideas

Fancy names and words:

• Chicago police officials have unveiled a "four-pillar plan" to address car thefts and robberies, which have remained stubbornly high in recent years.

  Police officials joined Mayor Brandon Johnson and Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd) on Friday to announce the plan, which utilizes technology, focus missions, public engagement and accountability, Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling told reporters at Public Safety Headquarters, 3510 S. Michigan Ave.

To quote Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." "Accountability" means punishment and jail time....something impossible in the era of Crimesha and very unlikely with democrats in charge of anything.

[edit from the comments] Technology? You mean like....Shotspotter? 

• Snelling announced a partnership with Hyundai and Kia to host vehicle safety days during the first week of May at Guaranteed Rate Field where eligible owners can get software updates to help prevent vehicle thefts.

  Along with the updates, vehicle owners can also receive catalytic converter etchings and steering wheel clubs.

  "We want to be proactive and not just reactive when these crimes occur," Snelling said.

Software updates? Meh. 

Etchings? Prevents nothing.

Steering wheel clubs? Ten second delay at most.

Proactive, not reactive? You mean like....traffic stops? Pursuits? Arrests?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You and your handlers are trying to crucify a bunch of cops this whole week for being proactive. Or have you forgotten?

• The department is utilizing license plate readers and pod cameras to help identify offenders and collect video evidence to include when releasing community alerts, which can generate tips and information to help aid an investigation.

  "These community alerts are put out in the hopes that those with information come forward," Antoinette Ursitti, chief of detectives, said at the press conference. "With most of these crimes, someone out there knows something."

Have you seen the "Alerts" after the media censors the ever-loving piss out of them?

• Beware of males, traveling in pairs.
  

Real f#$%ing helpful there Antoinette. 

• Citywide motor vehicle thefts through the end of March dropped nearly 24% — from 7,314 to 5,594 — compared to last year while robberies remained roughly the same, according to police data. 
  

That's still sixty-one car thefts PER DAY.

We've seen a lot of incompetency in our nearly finished career, spanning parts of four decades now, but this crew is taking the cake.

Get to the Choppa!

A new helicopter?

• The Chicago Police Department is expected to have a new state-of-the-art helicopter in its now meager fleet in time for the Democratic National Convention and officials say the price is right.

  Duane Devries, the Police Department's Deputy Chief of Special Operations, said the department has desperately needed a new police helicopter for a while.

  Chicago Police do not have a state- of- the -art helicopter, though one of their outdated ones has an upgraded camera.

  Devries said the Democratic National Convention is buying the city an new $11 million police chopper that will be used during the party gathering in August.

The new helicopter will be outfitted with all of the latest equipment including

• is fueled by clean burning unicorn farts emitting zero greenhouse gases
• a backup electric generator
• an extra backup of solar panels
  
• a speed restriction device to make pursuits impossible
• a camera system that filters out all colors to prevent racial profiling - it only sees white
• (unless the white person is wearing all black clothing and masks and carrying an umbrella - then it filters them out, too)
  
• a sooper-seekret-special filter that spots red baseball hats and launches high explosive missiles at anyone wearing one

It will take about a year to train up a DEI qualified crew, so don't expect it to be operational this year.

COPA Lying....Again (UPDATE)

These lib-tarded commie fucksticks need to be disbanded.

Here's the TRR from the wounded officer (from the COPA website, so don't give us any $hit about it). Note the circled portion (click for larger version):

How many shots fired by the wounded Officer?

• Zero

And here are the TRR's from the other four Officers. Again, note the circled portions (click for larger version):

How many shots accounted for by the other four Officers?

• 17 + 34 + 16 + 12 = 79 shots by the police
  

We're going to do some really complicated math here, so if you work for COPA, are named Jamal Green, are raising three black kids and a love child on the west side, or are any of the other asshole political jagoffs reading, you might need a calculator:

• 96 shots MINUS 79 shots equals.....17 shots
  

And seventeen is.....the number of rounds commonly found in a semi-automatic pistol.

In plain English, Dexter did a mag-dump at the police.

He didn't fire eleven times, he fired everything he had.

And he's exactly where he belongs right now.

UPDATE: Some readers and ALL of the media have missed the point. The Officers didn't fire 96 times. They fired 79 times as accounted for in all of the TRR paperwork. 

But "79" doesn't have the attention grabbing appeal of "almost 100" in COPA's and the lilb-tarded media attempt to stir up the ghetto cauldron into some sort of behavior that can be exploited for other purposes.

What you are seeing is a "narrative" being constructed in real time.

Too Soon?

OJ died:

Sent to us by too many people to count.

So Where are the Charges?

Alabama - a supposed hillbilly backwater - is handing out real Federal time for the PPP scandal. But Illinois?

• More than four years after the outbreak of COVID-19, a state watchdog is continuing to investigate public employees ripping off millions of dollars from the federal Paycheck Protection Program intended for businesses that struggled during the pandemic.

  Since the coronavirus pandemic began here in early 2020, the Office of Executive Inspector General has found 277 cases of wrongdoing involving PPP loans, which were typically forgiven, meaning they didn’t have to be repaid. The investigators focused on loans of more than $20,000 and found about $7.2 million in improper ones, according to a new report by the office.

  Most of the confirmed fraud cases — 175 — involved Department of Human Services employees. There were 31 cases in the Department of Corrections, 27 in the Department of Children and Family Services and three in the Illinois State Police.

  The inspector general, who also investigates misconduct in the Chicago Transit Authority, confirmed three employees of that agency had fraudulently obtained PPP loans.

  Often, people who scammed the federal PPP program would pay a kickback to an illegal broker, who’d then fill out and process applications asking for financial help for phony businesses.

How is it that there aren't lines out the door at the Dirksen Building and a bus shuttle running convicts to-and-from the MCC?

Shoe Drops in Dolton

As we wrote about more than a few weeks ago:

• Dolton Trustee Andrew Holmes and the south suburban village's embattled Mayor Tiffany Henyard were sued this week for an alleged sexual assault of a village employee in Las Vegas last year.

  The civil lawsuit was filed Monday in Cook County by the now-former village employee and a Dolton police officer. It accuses Holmes, also a well-known community activist for victims of gun violence, of sexually assaulting the village employee. Henyard is named for allegedly trying to cover up the incident to protect herself and retaliating against the employee when she tried to come forward about the assault.

  The lawsuit comes the same week former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was hired by the village's Board of Trustees to investigate Henyard, look into possible mayoral misspending and the allegations connected to the May 2023 Las Vegas trip. Neither Holmes nor Henyard's office responded to requests for comment Thursday.

  Rumors about the rape in Las Vegas circulated on social media last month, as well as claims about Holmes' arrest in connection to it. Holmes denied the allegations in a phone call with the Chicago Sun-Times at the time.

Las Vegas PD continues their CSA investigation.

Also noted in the article is how Henyard is going to veto Groot's appointment to investigate her, but the Trustees might override the veto.....and Holmes is a Trustee, so the circus continues.

For the Ignorant

And by Ignorant, we specifically mean:

• the jagoff mayor Conehead;
• the worthless Crimesha
• the useless head of COPA Andrea Kersten
• dickhead Durbin
  
• governor Fata$$
• and the sniveling coward "superintendent" Larritorious Smelling
  

Here's the Supreme Court decision regarding persons in vehicles:

• Pennsylvania v. Mimms, 434 U.S. 106 (1977), is a United States Supreme Court criminal law decision holding that a police officer ordering a person out of a car following a traffic stop and conducting a pat-down to check for weapons did not violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The Officers were completely within the Law ordering Dexter from the vehicle following the stop. Regardless of the reason for the stop, once you are ordered from the car, you MUST exist the vehicle.

Here's the relevant part of the Illinois Law:

• (720 ILCS 5/7-5)(from Ch. 38, par. 7-5) Sec. 7-5. Peace officer's use of force in making arrest. (a) A peace officer, or any person whom he has summoned or directed to assist him, need not retreat or desist from efforts to make a lawful arrest because of resistance or threatened resistance to the arrest. He is justified in the use of any force which he reasonably believes, based on the totality of the circumstances, to be necessary to effect the arrest and of any force which he reasonably believes, based on the totality of the circumstances, to be necessary to defend himself or another from bodily harm while making the arrest.

An Officer had just been shot by Dexter. Therefore, Deadly Force is authorized, even demanded, due to the actions of the offender, and until such time as the offender ceased his actions. The video, however shaky, shows Dexter holding, and firing a gun....and firing first.

And we can't believe we have to cite this Law, but in light of the politicians (and we include Larritorious in this category) slobbering all over a dead felon's testicles, here's the topper:

• 720 ILCS 5/7-7)(from Ch. 38, par. 7-7) Sec. 7-7. Private person's use of force in resisting arrest. A person is not authorized to use force to resist an arrest which he knows is being made either by a peace officer or by a private person summoned and directed by a peace officer to make the arrest, even if he believes that the arrest is unlawful and the arrest in fact is unlawful.

By Illinois Law, THERE IS ZERO RIGHT TO RESIST. If you feel an arrest or a traffic stop is unlawful, even if you know it with 100% certainty, your ONLY LEGAL course of action and/or correction is THROUGH THE COURTS, not on the street and certainly not by shooting at the police.

And although COPA is going to try to hang their hats on "too many shots," there is nothing in the law that specifies how many shots a "reasonable police officer" must fire to stop a threat. Anything by COPA is purely speculation, an Administrative matter and perhaps a Training Issue.

Ask Larritorious - he spent his career at the Training Academy - mostly getting laid by various willing recruits - but near enough to a classroom that by the process of osmosis, may have absorbed some passing knowledge of the Law.

The End of Tact Teams?

The media is noticing what we and our readers pointed out years ago....and the "progressives" might be able to make Conehead do something about it:

• During a public question-and-answer session at CPD headquarters Monday, Snelling was asked about the video’s then-imminent release and about the traffic stop.

  Such basic violations , valid or otherwise, have long been studied and challenged in court cases about whether they can be a legal pretext for felony-level searches by police. Tactical police squads like the one involved in the Reed killing typically are not used for traffic patrol duty but for making significant arrests and taking guns off the street.

That's the way Tact teams used to be. It hasn't been that way in a long time.

Now, Tact is used as a carrot, dangled over the heads of young coppers who want to get off of midnights. Soft clothes, minimal radio calls, loose hours. And all you have to do is exactly what the commander wants....not dope, not guns....traffic stops and blue cards. That's it.

And now, there's a possibility it's going to end. 

Let's face it, Tact is a luxury the Department can't afford when we're downing half-a-watch of beat cars. We can't answer the calls we have, backlogs are a constant issue and getting a day off takes a near-act-of-God. Throw in a summer's worth of parades and the DNC and you see where this is heading.

The days of three Tact teams per District may be over. Man the beat cars first and foremost, for safety's sake if nothing else. Seniority rules the roost and (sorry kids) you're doing your time on midnights like every generation of cops did before you. Maybe bring back the 06 Teams if you need a specific pattern addressed, then back to the watch when it's done.

"But they can't do that!" will be the cry.

Why not? Tact teams are now a political liability. We recall the days of three Tact teams and two Gang teams in the Districts. Gang teams went bye-bye. We remember Mission Teams in the Areas....haven't existed for about twenty years now. Task Force? You'd have to have been retired almost thirty years to have served in the TF units. Gangs North, South and West? Special Operations? TRU?

All things come to an end....except answering calls, 24/7/365 in a blue and white.

Nolle Everything!

Crimesha continues to not do her job:

• @Misled64: Watch cases close the next 7 months. Foxx is already ramping up nolles, refusals to prosecute, not objecting to clemency petitions etc. Loevy n Loevy, Bonjean and Blagg will be burning up the Foxx phone lines….

The linked X / Twitter feed seems to be a 26th Street insider working behind enemy lines.

And speaking of 26th Street, Marty Preib has an article up about the election of O'Neill-Burke, the media's reaction to it and how she might derail the driving force behind the "exoneration" movement that allows guilty killers to go free:

• Burke should sit down in her first week and meet attorneys from the city who obtain the bulk of federal lawsuits alleging police misconduct. Many of these cases arose through shocking decisions from the Foxx administration. These city attorneys have a deep knowledge about how criminals are released from prison as part of a peculiarly Chicago-esque form of lawfare against legitimate cops. The knowledge these law firms hold is vast, a kind of primer that would immediately reveal to Burke that restoring justice in Chicago would mean attacking the police misconduct racket that exploded under Foxx.

  Doing so would also expose the role of the press in this industry. The potential for a spotlight on their writing is perhaps one reason they are so salty about the election of Burke.

Go read it all. It's interesting and therefore, unlikely to happen, but shining a light on the corrupt and bent media is more likely to bring about their failure.

Swimming Where?

This used to be guaranteed hospital visit:

• Despite promotion for a swimming event in the Chicago River, it turns out the city has not yet approved it. The swim, which would be the first open water swim in the river in nearly a century, is scheduled for September 22, and registration is already open. Money raised has been designated to go to ALS research.

  But at Wednesday's city council meeting, 34th Ward Ald. William Conway, whose ward covers part of downtown, said he was never notified of the event. He questioned officials with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events about it. They said the event announcement came out "without any permits or approval from the city of Chicago."

Back when we were young, we remember CPD and CFD divers having to have a battery of tests and more than a few shots after searching for bridge jumpers or vehicles that drove into the river. Even those who were rescued from falling in had to be tested for diphtheria and god knows what else lest they die from the pathogens in the raw sewage headed downstream.

We're even old enough to remember old man Daley wanting to clean the river in the 1970s so kids could fish in it and members of the City Council and media laughing at his words.

It's taken nearly our lifetimes to get the Chicago River to the point that someone could even think about swimming in it and we have to say, good for them. We'd never eat a fish pulled out of the river and we'd probably laugh at someone doing the river swim and ending up with a months-long case of diarrhea, but at least your skin isn't dissolving.

Overdue Decision

Halfway to a good decision:

• One of the city's largest parades is downsizing. Organizers of the Chicago Pride Parade said the event will be smaller this June.

  Entries will be capped at 125 group. That is down 35% from last year. The parade will also kick off an hour earlier, at 11 a.m.

This massive manpower drain and neighborhood disruption needed to put into check, especially as CPD manpower dwindles to crisis levels.

The next step would be to move the whole thing downtown where the streets are wider, the closures are less disruptive and parking is easier (not to mention the City could charge for the parking garages).

And by putting a damper on this monstrosity, maybe they can do the same thing for Billiken.

Conehead is an Absolute Jagoff

We mean, what a f#$%ing piece of $hit:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson held a news conference late Tuesday morning, attended by representatives of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, after COPA released the body-cam footage.

  The mayor called the footage “deeply disturbing.”

  “I know this footage is extremely painful and traumatic for many of our city’s residents,” he said. “It will be especially difficult for those of us living in communities where the events depicted occur all too often.

  “As mayor, and as a father raising a family — including two Black boys on the West Side — I am personally devastated to see yet another young Black man lose his life during an interaction with the police.”

  Johnson said he spoke to Reed’s family over the weekend. “My heart breaks for the family of Dexter Reed,” he said. “They are grieving the loss of a son, a brother and a nephew.”

We feel "deeply disturbed" that yet another cop was shot by a black offender....and we say that knowing we'll be called "racist" because of that.

Hey, you know what else is "deeply disturbing"?

• Looking at your wrist, seeing exposed bones and tendons, realizing that you'll probably never have full functionality again and some asshole has just gifted you your very own weather barometer that will pain you the rest of your life.

And the media isn't much better. A couple mentioned that $hitbag fired first, but few if any mentioned he fired ELEVEN times. Firing eleven times at five cops is a very bad life choice and at that point you deserve whatever comes your way.

Mayor a$$hole also claims:

• The mayor also gave strong support to law enforcement, saying, “I want to be clear: Shooting a police officer can never be condoned, or excused. I will never stand for that.”

....all while he claims to be "devastated" and his "heart breaks" when cops lawfully defend themselves against assailants.

Fuck this guy.

Court Resumes Friday

Naked crackhead squad car stealing shitbird:

• The defense is presenting their case on Whitley temple at 10am , room 304 on April 12. There is still one big question - which high powered politician pulled strings to push her application to the hiring stage with all those red flags? She would still be on the city payroll if there was no backlash.

We fear that there will never be an answer to that question.

Die Already

Two  media entities that we wouldn't shed a tear over if they went under tomorrow:

• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a significant Chicago Public Media financial backer, voiced its sadness over a round of deep job cuts at WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times, as the organization faced pushback on social media and from a Chicago alderperson over the decision.

  The $8.2 billion foundation also expressed its continuing optimism for the merger of the two legacy journalism titles but sidestepped questions about whether it continues to support Matt Moog in his capacity as Chicago Public Media CEO.

  Moog, who announced his resignation last December and said he intends to depart the organization in August, cited financial pressures Wednesday as one justification for pink-slipping 14 people across both news organizations.

  Those cuts mean the elimination of WBEZ’s podcast unit and the conversion of the WBEZ-run Vocalo radio station — which has offered R&B, jazz and Spanish-language programming — into a streaming-only service.

  Four nonunionized Sun-Times staff members also were among those laid off.

Unfortunately, Mope-rah and the spouse abuser weren't among the layoffs.

Video Release on Tap

Behind the Tribune paywall....sorry about that:

• The Civilian Office of Police Accountability was expected to release video footage this week that captures a fatal shooting involving Chicago police officers in West Garfield Park last month, according to a family lawyer for the man who was killed.

  Dexter Reed, 26, was fatally shot by police during a March 21 traffic stop in the 3800 block of West Ferdinand Street. Sources familiar with the shooting but not authorized to speak about it publicly told the Tribune that CPD officers fired more than 30 bullets at Reed.

  One CPD officer was also shot in the wrist, according to COPA. A gun was recovered by police, authorities said, though it was unclear Monday whether Reed pointed that weapon at officers or fired it.

A funny thing though. We're hearing rumors that Dexter was employed as a security guard at Monterrey Security, a heavily connected and politicized business. A couple of Monterrey security personnel allegedly were doing stick-ups on the Red Line a little bit ago....while on duty, and that seems to have fallen off the radar.

Does Monterrey supply its armed employees with guns? Was the recovered weapon one of theirs? And how was a guy with Dexter's record hired for security....and perhaps armed security?

Questions abound. 

But hey, Jamal Green has an axe to grind and an agenda to push (he even dug up the ubiquitous graduation photo from eight years ago), and if a few cops get shot along the way, it was probably their fault.

Same Old Same Old

The same people (or folks) preaching the same old hate without an iota of proof and absolutely zero consequences:

• ...Congressman Jonathan Jackson (D-Illinois) speaking at an event hosted by the Black Fire Brigade. Says the Chicago Fire Dept would let south side homes of blacks burn to the ground to rid them out of neighborhoods purposefully but they would aggressively extinguish homes of white people on the north side and they still do today.
  
  
  
  The Black Fire Brigade is just another activist organization with an agenda.
  
  
  
  Local 2 has been vehemently being bombarded with demands to comment on such a statement by the congressman and black fire brigade.CFD’s fire commissioner and deputy Marc Ferman will not comment on the video despite weighing pressure from the rank and file.Local 2 President should demand answers or statements from CFD brass to reject and renounce such actions take place.

The video evidence on Instagram was taken down within hours of being cited by outraged firefighters.

The cowardice on display by CFD's brass is appalling.

Of course, CFD's version of IAD is still refusing to properly investigate the commissioner who

• was caught on Ring Doorbell cam melting down over an affair...
• whose partner then blackmailed her into hiring her brother...
• who had an outstanding warrant from Colorado...
• who ended up shooting someone during a road rage incident in 020 a few months ago

So we shouldn't be surprised. 

UPDATE: Spoke too soon. The Chicago Contrarian has the video on their X feed!

UPDATE: Local 2 has expressed their displeasure:

• 
The Executive Board of Local 2 is shocked, disheartened, angered, and disappointed to see the statements made about the members of Local 2 by Congressman Jonathan Jackson while addressing his constituents at a speaking event. These comments propagated on social media are not only patently false and maliciously divisive-they are dangerous to our membership. The Executive Board of Local 2 would like to assure our membership that we are working diligently to address this issue.
 
Local 2 and the AFFI have officially and immediately revoked political endorsement of Congressman Jonathan Jackson. Additionally, Local 2 firmly demands Congressman Jackson publicly renounce his comments and issue our membership an apology.
 
Local 2 has been in contact with Commissioner Holt, and we await her response denouncing this hateful rhetoric and unwarranted attack on the Firefighters and Paramedics in which she leads. Additionally, we expect she will properly address those propagating these false statements as facts about the Chicago Fire Department and its members.
 
Local 2 comprises a diverse workforce dedicated to serving all communities without bias or discrimination. We take great pride in our commitment to inclusivity and professionalism in all aspects of our work.
 
Local 2 will certainly hold any member disseminating these abhorrent statements, slandering their brothers and sisters, fully accountable to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Chicago Fire Fighters Union.
 
We thank all of you for your hard work and commitment to the City of Chicago and its citizens.
 
Fraternally,
Local 2 Executive Board”

As we noted before, the commissioner is busy making sure the Ring Doorbell video doesn't hit the airwaves and reveal she was blackmailed into hiring a felon who shot someone in the face. She's not likely to tell a sitting congressweasel to shut his mouth.

Let It Burn

Nothing has happened yet, and the lib-tards are tying CPD's hands before it starts:

• Chicago Police have been preparing for the Democratic National Convention this summer - and the huge number of protesters coming with it. New policies, including one that allows mass arrests of protesters, have caught the eye of First Amendment advocates - and of the protesters themselves. 

  Chicago Police are calling the practice "coordinated multiple arrest incidents," or CMAs. They are to be used when multiple arrests happen at the same time and normal processing cannot happen.

  But protesters and civil liberty advocates said it is the policy itself that cannot happen.  Groups concerned over how Chicago Police handled - or mishandled - unrest in the days after George Floyd's death at the hands of police in Minneapolis are taking issue with a special order from the CPD dealing with "response to crowds, protests, and civil disturbances."

  The Democratic National Convention is coming to Chicago in just four months and thousands of protesters are expected for it. In this a federal court filing last month, the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of protesters zeroes in on "serious deficiencies in the mass arrest policy" - a policy they say "eviscerates protections required by the First Amendment."

  "CPD doesn't need any more slack in their leash," said Joe Iosbaker of the Coalition to March on DNC. "They need a tighter leash."

The trouble with a tight leash? It strangles.

Which is what they want....so let them have it. 

The chaos will guarantee a Trump victory.

Don't be their opening for a lawsuit.

Bring Some of That Here

Seeing some consequences elsewhere for PPP fraud....namely, federal prison:

• A federal judge sentenced two Tuscaloosa men this week for defrauding the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Patrick Davis. 

  These cases are the part of a collaboration between the U.S. Secret Service and local partners to identify and focus enforcement on individuals who defrauded the systems meant to provide relief during the pandemic. The joint effort also addresses violent crime by employing, where appropriate, federal laws to prosecute violent offenders in the Northern District of Alabama. 

  U.S. District Court Judge L. Scott Coogler presided over the two unrelated cases.  Kenzarian Lemark Harris, age 38, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for PPP fraud.  Harris pleaded guilty in November 2023 to wire fraud.  According to the plea agreement, in February 2021 Harris submitted false and fraudulent PPP loan applications and received a PPP loan totaling more than $20,833.  Harris’ loan application included fraudulent tax and bank records and several misrepresentations – including that his business was in operation, that the business had employees for whom it paid salaries, that the PPP funds would be used to retain workers, and that the information provided in the loan applications was true and accurate. 

  The court separately sentenced Reginald Dewayne Rhodes, Jr., age 26, to 18 months in prison for PPP loan fraud.  Rhodes pleaded guilty in October 2023 to wire fraud.  According to the plea agreement, between April and June 2021, Rhodes applied for and received a fraudulent PPP loan in the amount of $11,770.  Rhodes claimed to own and operate a carpet cleaning business that did not exist, and his application included fraudulent tax and bank records.
  

The PPP site has revealed quite a few exempts, a boatload of dispatchers and more than a few teachers all with "loans" in the $11,770 and higher ranges. Quite a few of those are fraudulent, so we should be seeing federal sentences commensurate with those handed out in Alabama.

Retirement Denied? (Delayed?)

Someone posted a rumor the other day that they made up, quoting some MCC section that doesn't exist as far as we can tell, but we think (THINK) could exist somewhere. Perhaps not in Chicago, but other government agencies.

They claimed that Conehead could suspend retirements indefinitely, to alleviate the manpower shortage that's going to come to a head right before the DNC.

Does anyone know if this provision exists in any form in the Contracts? We're just curious....and we don't have to tell anyone exactly what would happen if Conehead tried this bull$hit.

Run!!! It's an Eclipse!!!

Why is everyone getting worked up about this?

• The solar eclipse of 2024 brings with it some hidden threats that are being laid out in a new special bulletin from Illinois State Police. According to the alert, the total eclipse of the sun on Monday will draw unchecked crowds in public places that should be considered terror targets. Local authorities also need to be prepared for drug overdoses as eclipse viewers try to enhance their experience.

  At the Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center in Springfield, State Police analysts will replace highway maps on the big screens with the Illinois eclipse path.

Seriously? 

Most people will be at work. Most kids will be at school. Many shift workers will be sleeping. No one cares what the birds and squirrels do. Planes won't be falling out of the sky and quite frankly, if you can't find a safe spot to pull your car over, your insurance rate should double for stupidity.

And if someone is using Controlled Substances to "enhance" an event that lasts all of fifteen minutes, we wouldn't even be wasting the gas to respond to those calls.

More Judicial Stupidity

The "Safe-T Act" is producing stupid results all over the place:

• Illinois appellate courts, where criminal cases go on appeal, are not immune from the regressive effects of the SAFE-T Act euphemistically styled as “reform.”  

  The Second District of the Illinois Appellate Court (which hears cases from Kane, Lake, McHenry, Dekalb, and Kendall Counties) published an opinion pending in McHenry County involving a defendant who was charged with twenty-five offenses, including aggravated identity theft, a class 3 felony, and aggravated fleeing and eluding a peace officer, a class 4 felony. 

  The aggravated fleeing and eluding charges arose after the defendant allegedly led officers on a high-speed car chase from Spring Grove, Illinois across state-lines into Wisconsin. 

  After he was arrested, the State sought to hold the defendant pretrial under the SAFE-T Act arguing the defendant was a risk of “willful flight” because he literally fled from the police in a car at high speeds in order to avoid arrest.  The trial court agreed with the State’s argument and detained the defendant pending his trial.

  On March 19, 2024, the appellate court reversed the trial court and ordered the defendant to be released.  The court adopted the reasoning of another court making the finest of distinctions that though “evading arrest could be viewed as obstructing the criminal justice system, it did not reflect a ‘thwarting of the judicial process to avoid prosecution.’”  In other words, fleeing from police to avoid arrest is not evidence of a defendant being a risk of “willful flight.”

Really? Fleeing and eluding isn't evidence of "willful flight."

The mental gymnastics required to sit on the bench while remembering to breathe and not $hit your pants - a bar that even president Potato can't hurdle - are amazing.

Beware Top Golf

Who knew Naperville was so dangerous?

• Two men who were allegedly found to be in possession of loaded guns at a Topgolf recreational facility in Naperville have been denied pre-trial release, according to the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office.

  The men, who were arrested in separate incidents last week, were each charged with multiple felonies, including armed habitual criminal, and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon.

  "We’re a very welcoming county, people are welcome to come here, but not to commit crime," said DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin.

We don't usually cover suburban crime without some Chicago connection, but it pops up in our news-feed based on our reading preferences and we've seen a version of this story nearly ten times over the past year or so. 

Most times, the offender is a Chicago felon, and we can say with the experience of almost three decades, that the number of times we actually saw a golf bag in the hood is probably three.

Is Naperville a hotbed of under reported gun crime? Is Top Golf a nexus for felonious meet-ups a la the old Outift dons who'd meet in River Forest or Orso's or that Dry Cleaning establishment that cost Rodriguez the superintendent's spot?

Emergency Exempt Sunday Meeting

This sounds serious. 

Larritorious is calling in just about every gold star along with the commanding officers of citywide units and tactical lieutenants.

We're hoping our spies at HQ are exaggerating slightly, but after what we heard and saw posted by some community agitators, we might be hoping in vain.

Everyone better have their riot equipment handy and be prepared for twelve and fourteen hour days.

Scandal to Pop?

From the CWB X / Twitter feed (click for larger version):

No idea what this could be, but it would appear that CWB - a small-sized reader-supported blog - is out-reporting all of the lame stream and dead tree media.

Be sure to visit their site and keep up on all sorts of interesting news.

The Return of Groot

Hilarious:

• Four Dolton trustees are looking to hire former Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot to investigate their mayor, Tiffany Henyard, as the village finds itself embroiled in controversy.

  The investigation stems from a series of events surrounding a trip to Las Vegas in May 2023. Allegations of serious misconduct surfaced, which prompted Henyard and her administration to come under scrutiny.

  The trip, initially billed as an opportunity for economic development, involved Henyard, Village Trustees and personnel from Dolton and Thornton Township. However, upon Henyard's return, there was allegedly a notable lack of communication regarding any potential economic benefits or events from the trip.

The Dolton trustees are concerned that mayor Henyard is using taxpayer money for less-than-legit expenditures. 

The solution?

• If approved by the Board, [Groot's] law firm will charge $400 per hour for her services.

Maybe she can finally pay for her own house security?

Great Job Fata$$

It ain't just Chicago that's dying. Jabba the Governor is killing Illinois, too:

• Workers at factories in Illinois have been hit by mass layoffs and closures in recent months.

  Since the start of 2024, four factories in Illinois have announced they will make more than 1,000 employees redundant due to manufacturing costs, revenue losses and the need to relocate operations. The Quaker Oats Company, Blommer Chocolate Company, Rivian and Monterey Mushrooms have all announced or enacted layoffs since January this year.

And this is a continuing outflow of factory work fleeing Illinois.

It also doesn't help that the corporate tax rate here is higher than each and every state that surrounds Illinois, so it's just easier to open a factory or business just over the border.