Lieutenant List Out?

Didn't they just make a bunch of lieutenants this year?

Are the retirement numbers larger than we had heard? So bad that they have to do another class on the heels of the previous one?

Post it if you got it or send it here.

Larry Saves Conehead Money

This would have cost taxpayers million of dollars:

• Chicago Police Department leaders said Thursday they have decided not to punish any officers whose names appeared on the leaked membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that played a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

  “The investigation is closed and the allegations were not sustained,” a spokeswoman for the CPD said in a statement, declining to provide any documents from the internal probe.

  The brief statement stood in stark contrast to Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling’s zero-tolerance vow to the City Council in October, after WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times revealed the misconduct records of the cops with ties to the Oath Keepers.

In something like 100% of the "misconduct" allegations, none of it had anything to do with membership in the Oath Keepers. In many of the cases, the Officers names were gleaned from phone lists or email lists and there was zero documentation that anyone had done anything aside from signing up for a newsletter. Of the few that had sustained allegations, all served disciplinary penalties through the appropriate channels, but again, none of the allegations were tied to membership in an organization.

After this story broke, we may have suggested to numerous persons at bars and parties that membership applications should be filled out in Larritorious's name along with Conehead and other members of the City Council.

There's still the Right to freely associate with all sorts of groups and people that others may find objectionable on some level....like democrats or lawyers or anyone working for COPA.

Pre-Convention Lawsuit

They're pre-suing Chicago:

• As protests surge across America just months before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, activists representing LGBTQ+ and women’s reproductive rights say Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is violating their First Amendment rights and is unprepared for the onslaught of dissidents headed to the city this August.

  The claims were made as Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging the city wrongfully denied permits for the group to protest by the Water Tower on Michigan Avenue, an area where many Democratic delegates will be staying during the Aug. 19-22 convention.

  Joined by the ACLU of Illinois, activists with the LGBTQ+ and women’s reproductive rights organization said that while they support the Democratic Party over Republicans it’s essential for protesters to be heard to ensure their perspectives are reflected by the party both during and after the convention.

Just so everyone is aware, if protestors pop up in unexpected places around town, they still have a First Amendment Right to be in public spaces, chanting what they want, protesting whatever. Be familiar with the First Amendment General Order.

They still have to obey laws concerning being on sidewalks, not blocking intersections, etc. They're claims of Conehead's administration being unprepared are 100% on point, but that doesn't mean you can't be prepared and informed in advance, so when mayor BlowJob attempts to throw you under the bus, you're able to defend your actions....or inactions.

Protesting Johnson's

So many opportunities for jokes here.

Keesing Bandit hardest hit:

• As of Thursday evening, more than 1,200 people have signed a petition to stop Johnson’s Chicago, a Florida-based male strip club, from opening at 954 W. Belmont Ave. — formerly home to Berlin Nightclub, which closed its doors in November 2023 after 40 years.

And the main reason for protesting Johnson's?

• He also said he was concerned when he looked at the owner Matt Colunga’s social media and found that he was rejecting dancers based on their appearance.

The owner won't hire ugly dancers.

If we were to go to a normal strip club, we wouldn't be going there for the furniture, the liquor or the conversation.

They want this guy to commit to going out of business by promising to do everything possible to be unsuccessful. What world do these people live in?

Targeted Car Burglaries

Someone is looking at unmarked cars:

• A group of thieves targeted law enforcement vehicles on the city's Northwest Side, Chicago police said.

  CPD issued a community alert after three law enforcement vehicles were broken into in Edison Park, Oriole Park and Wildwood. In each incident, offenders drove up to a vehicle in a dark colored SUV,broke the window, and took items from the glove compartment and trunk.

  It's unknown what the thieves took from the law enforcement's units.

These are among the nicer neighborhoods in town, with a higher number of city workers, a larger percentage of property taxes and a lower crime rate.

If we were degenerate gambling types, we'd lay money on the cars being exempt vehicles. And as the exempt creatures are the "best and brightest" of our members ("Earned, not Given") we'd supppose that there weren't any weapons stored in the cars.

We'll assume radios, uniform items, maybe some helmets, riot gear, perhaps a gun belt with magazines and ammo. 

We're pretty sure all of these items are required to be listed on an AdMin Fax message, so everyone will  know soon enough.

Is that rule still in effect that take-home vehicles must be parked on the street and not in a garage?

Oops...Again

Those darn ShotSpotters, doing the job that 9-1-1 callers won't do:

• In making the case to tie Mayor Brandon Johnson’s hands on canceling the ShotSpotter contract, City Council members have repeatedly cited faster response times and the number of gunshot detection alerts not accompanied by a 911 call.

  South and West side alderpersons representing the city’s most violent police districts have argued that Chicago police officers never would have known about those incidents without ShotSpotter.

  Now, they have statistics to back up their anecdotal claims.

  The statistics, compiled by the Chicago Police Department, show response times over the past six years were more than two minutes quicker with a ShotSpotter alert than when the gunshot detection alert was accompanied by a 911 call.

Faster response times means quicker medical care for the maimed and better chances at apprehension...which is why Conehead and Crimesha don't want it around.

How much quicker?

• With only a ShotSpotter alert, the average response time was 8 minutes, 6 seconds. That compares with 10 minutes, 11 seconds when ShotSpotter was combined with a 911 call. Response time grew to 10 minutes, 48 seconds with a 911 call but no ShotSpotter alert.

Oh.

Actually, that's kind of ridiculous. Eight full minutes to respond to a ShotSpaooter call?

We guess this is "Proof Positive" of the warnings we've been giving for nearly two decades about manpower dwindling to crisis levels.

How is Cashless Bail Going?

This article appeared a few days ago:

• About seven months after Illinois ended cash bail as a key provision of the much-debated SAFE-T Act, fears that it would lead to a surge in freed criminal suspects committing more offenses or skipping court so far haven't materialized, at least in Cook County.

  [...] According to the latest data — which spans from the end of cash bail on Sept. 18, 2023, through April 13 — 30,012 defendants have been granted pretrial release in Cook County, while 1,970 have been detained.

  Of those released, 26,930 of them — about 90% — have appeared in court as required, including 88% of felony defendants. That's an improvement from three years ago, when about 80.4% of those charged with felonies and released on bond attended their scheduled court hearings, according to a report from the Civic Federation.

  The data shows that among defendants released while awaiting trial, 89% of them have not incurred additional charges. Among the 11% who had, 4% of them were violent offenses. That's again an improvement over 2021, when 18.2% faced new charges, according to the Civic Federation report.

But then we read stuff like this on CWB:

• A man on parole for two gun cases faces three counts of attempted murder after he allegedly opened fire on another car during a road rage altercation near the Loop on Friday morning. Prosecutors say young children were in Steven Moore’s car and the victims’ car at the time of the shooting.

In fact, you can read - on average - around a story per week about someone on bail committing another violent crime. CWB even kept a running count on their stories last year....not sure if they're still doing it.

Additionally, you cannot (and should not) trust any stories in the media citing statistics. We wrote just a few days ago how New York, LA and Chicago (among others) haven't reported any crime states to the feebs in over a year, so nothing is accurate.

As we've said in the past, who are you going to believe? The media? Or your goddamn lying eyes?

Killer Arrested

About an hour ago:

• The suspect wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca was arrested Wednesday in west suburban Glendale Heights — with the slain officer’s own handcuffs used to detain him, according to law enforcement sources.

  Xavier L. Tate Jr., 22, was taken into custody without incident shortly after 7 p.m. following a “multi-state investigation” that involved the Chicago Police Department and “many other” law enforcement agencies, according to Belkis Sandoval, a spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force.

  Authorities had issued an arrest warrant for Tate on Friday night, when documents filed by the Cook County state’s attorney’s office charged him with first-degree murder in the April 21 shooting in the Gage Park neighborhood.

A heartfelt Thanks to everyone involved in tracking down this piece of garbage.

Who the F#$% Was This?

Inside info of the political maneuvering that took place behind the scenes, trying to get Conehead to the funeral of Officer Huesca, including some truly scumbag behavior by Special Activities Section and an unnamed Spanish speaking exempt member:

• Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara is lifting the curtain on the backstage maneuvers culminating in Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. J.B. Pritzker being told to stay away from the funeral of slain Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca.

  The back-and-forth, which only intensified the grieving family’s anguish, did not start and end with Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza delivering the stay-away message directly to the mayor Sunday night.

There was a conference call in which Huesca's sister threatened to make a scene and toss the mayor out herself. At this point, the true scumbaggery commenced:

• Catanzara “thought everything was squared away” until midday Sunday, when the Huesca family, gathered for the wake, texted a question: “Is the mayor really coming?” He rushed to the funeral home, where CPD personnel told him they had talked to the family, and “they understand that the mayor is mandatory to be here,” Catanzara said.

  “I said, ‘You’re lying to the family. There is nothing mandatory about the mayor’s attendance, and shame on you for even trying to tell the family that this is the only option they have.’”

  A flurry of conversations ensued, one including CPD Supt. Larry Snelling on speakerphone with other police brass, one of whom told Huesca’s mother, in Spanish, it was “mandatory that the mayor had to show up.”

  “ At one point, there was an implication that the honors funeral is tied to the mayor’s attendance. That was the guilt trip that we’re laying on this family,” Catanzara said.

We'd certainly like to have that exempt's name so we can properly denounce him and let everyone know what a dick he actually is....though everyone probably knows it already.

Here's the deal - once Larritorious declared it a "Line of Duty Death," the Honors Funeral is a given. Period. No "take backsies" or other such bullshit. You declared it. 

If Larritorious made this declaration at the behest of politicians for the sole reason that Conehead and Fata$$ could have a photo opportunity, then Larritorious needs to be demoted, fired and drummed out of the Department. He would have made a mockery of every other Line of Duty death AND cheapened the death of a good and decent copper who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Also, Catanzara is correct. There is zero "mandatory" appearance for anyone to appear. Not in Law, not in Ordinance, not in policy. And for some scumbag exempt to try to guilt the bereaved family into acquiescing so that some asshole politician can pretend to be something that everyone knows his entire first year of office was spent portraying the entire Department as the enemy, as racist, as something needed to be reined-in, then that exempt needs to be identified, demoted and called out as an utter tool.

And everyone at Special Activities Section needs to be tossed back to a District for the rest of their careers, blacklisted from ever being in a phone call unit, and reminded every day that they're fucking idiots, probably just like the exempt that brought them downtown in the first place.

Extra Reading

Articles of interest we've run across tonight.

Another useless police oversight body, bringing the total to something like eight:

• The president and vice president of Chicago’s Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability on Tuesday are among Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choices to serve on the permanent panel responsible for civilian oversight of the Chicago Police Department.

  Anthony Driver Jr. and interim vice president Remel Terry are among seven mayoral nominees to the permanent commission.

So we've got COPA, IAD, the Police Board, the Consent Decree people, this "Accountability" board, the local District Councils, Crimesha's task force....we're missing one somewhere.

Is there any comparable amount of people and boards overseeing the Fire Department? The schools? The City Council?

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Marty Preib explains the rotten media structure that abets Crimesha's corruption:

• Among the new buzzwords in Chicago’s war on the criminal justice system is the claim of “duty to intervene.”

  The phrase describes the city’s demand that officers should turn in officers who commit misconduct. That is the rhetoric. In reality, it is a phrase that will be used to cast a wider net in the war on police officers by attorneys and their media lapdogs.

Go read it all - the amount of taxpayer money being directed at these corrupt institutions is astounding.

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Our old friends at the Contrarian take a deep dive into Conehead's efforts to make Dexter into osome sort of martyr and provoke Minnesota riots here:

• ....it was Mayor Johnson who delivered the most disturbing remarks and they are worth examination. Describing the incident in front of reporters, Johnson declared the events capturing Reed firing on officers and police defending themselves on video as “deeply disturbing,” “painful,” and “traumatic.” Projecting undue calm, Johnson sulked with anguish over Reed’s death, as if Chicago had suffered a great loss with the armed gunman’s death.

  Far from a tragedy, Johnson neither mentioned Reed’s criminal history — Reed was out on bail awaiting trial on a felony gun charge — nor did the mayor explicitly state Reed fired at police. Worse, Johnson waited until near the conclusion of his remarks to address Reed’s attack on police, describing with indifference how he would never “condone” or “excuse” an attack on police. Most troubling was Johnson approximating the value of the life of Reed and his victim, Officer Gregory St. Louis. A bizarre parallel for the mayor to draw as he addressed an armed criminal who shot at and wounded a police officer, Johnson’s comments only highlighted his contradictory prioritization of violent criminals over police or unarmed citizens.

Well written and - to the uninformed - eye-popping conclusions that Conehead's sole effort was to undermine Officers doing their jobs and expose taxpayers to yet another ghetto lottery payout.

Go read it all.

WTF Paul?

Sticking up for Ed Burke?

• Former Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas told a federal judge that convicted ex-Ald. Edward M. Burke is “worthy of whatever leniency you see fit to provide” in an early batch of what will likely be several letters of support ahead of Burke’s sentencing this summer.

This appeared mere days after Vallas guest-posted on John Kass's blog:

• You want to know why violent crime is surging in the nation’s urban centers? Look no further than the radical left’s efforts to “reform” the criminal justice system by pretending that criminals are just a new class of victims whose violence is a product of our systemically racist society. According to them it’s not the sociopaths committing the violence, it’s racism. Racism, not crime, explains America’s prison population which has not plummeted as violent crime has surged.

While we don't argue with the fact that violent crime has surged....in fact, we were warning about years ago before it became stylish to mention it....but one of the underlying reasons violent crime surges is an overall disregard for the Rule of Law and white collar criminals being given leniency.

A violent criminal usual victimizes one person at a time:

• a single mugging
• a single burglary
• a battery or robbery
• most gunshot victims are still single victim crimes....murders, too

But white collar crime victimizes thousands of taxpayers, sometimes tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of victims at a time. And excusing the crime with leniency revisits the damage done again.

Throw the book at Burke. Maybe he dies in prison. He made his choices.

Dragging it Out

The longer they drag it out, the less people will remember it when the judgement comes down:

• Testimony ended Monday in the naked crack head, squad car stealing, squad car crashing, attempted murdering witch. Closing arguments are May 22 at 11am Room 304

This thing was dragged out two years just to get to trial and now the bench trial is entering it's third month.

The fix is almost certain at this point. Seems she's a neighbor of Conehead and probably worked on his campaign before he got her a city job.

Lasers

Someone was griping about the 3-day Field Force training. One way to avoid it (as we found) was to announce your intent to retire prior to the DNC. They didn't even schedule us for it.

But we were more concerned about something else:

• eye protection against laser damage

We've seen dozens of reports, from here and abroad, about laser pointers being used to "paint" aircraft cockpits, potentially blinding pilots. The FAA has issued all sorts of warnings, many LEO Confidential, so we'll not be posting those.

There are also reports, again from here and abroad, of lasers being used against police in riot/mob situations and Officers suffering significant irreversible eye-damage.

Is there a plan to address any of this? We'll be gone, but we can be concerned for those who are left.

Twitter as News?

So this happened prior to the funeral Monday:

• As a nationwide search for the man accused of murdering Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca continues, his family is asking Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker to stay away from his funeral today, according to three reports and the Illinois State Comptroller.

  Mary Ann Ahern of NBC5 and Courtney Spinelli of WGN-TV both shared that information on Twitter, citing sources. Ahern said the governor would honor the family’s request.

  The reports both said Huesca’s family shared their wishes with Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza when she attended the officer’s wake on Sunday. Mendoza confirmed on Monday morning that she and Rep. Angelica Guerrero Cuellar (22nd) relayed the information to Johnson personally.

Fata$$ immediately said he'd stay away. There's wasn't a buffet anyway, so it was an easy decision.

It took Conehead until an hour prior to the funeral to decide to cancel his plans to exploit the death of an Officer. 

Lib-tarded "progressive" scumbag head of COPA Andrea Kersten had to be asked to leave the wake twice as she positions herself to run for mayor in three years.

The obvious message here is that politicians who condemn the police with one breath, are not welcome to express insincere condolences when the laws and policy decisions they champion directly contribute to the deaths of those same Officers so they can pretend to be law-and-order candidates next election.

And aside from the CWB reporting and the Contrarian X/Twitter feed, no mainstream media outlets reported the family's wishes....because it would have been embarrassing to those exploiting the Officer's death.

But....do you see the highlighted links in the CWB report up top? Those are X/Twitter feeds to reports that the editors refused to broadcast, but the reporters tried to get the word out anyway. Maybe to preserve the "scoop" but also, to actually do their jobs and inform the public.

We have no real idea how X/Twitter works. We can barely understand eBlogger and we keep our social media footprint deliberately small. But it is looking more and more like the big media companies are dying and the smaller micro-platforms may be the only truth being told.

UPDATE: The Tribune Editorial Staff takes a swipe at Susana Mendoza for revealing the family request for un-supportive politicians to stay away from the funeral, calling it a "political opportunity for a mayoral humiliation." 

Fuck them. If anyone needs to be humiliated, it's Conehead. And Fata$$. And Kersten. Bravo to Mendoza for letting everyone know that if you support a anti-police agenda, you aren't welcome at police funerals. That should be the bottom line.

We're still holding out hope she runs for mayor again in a few years.

Crime is NOT Down

Hey, if it's in the Wall Street Journal, it's got to be more accurate that the New York Times:

• Americans think crime is on the rise, but the media keep telling them they’re wrong. A Gallup survey last year found that 92% of Republicans and 58% of Democrats thought crime was increasing. A February Rasmussen Reports survey found that 61% of likely voters say violent crime in the U.S. is getting worse, while only 13% think it’s getting better. Journalists purport to refute this by citing official crime statistics showing a downward trend.

  Americans aren’t mistaken. News reports fail to take into account that many victims aren’t reporting crimes to the police, especially since the pandemic.

This is an opinion piece, but the author is John R. Lott Jr., the well-known expert on Gun Rights and probably best known for applying actual scientific analysis to crime statistics - something the media and anti-gun people refuse to acknowledge:

• The U.S. has two measures of crime. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting program counts the number of crimes reported to police every year. The Bureau of Justice Statistics, in its National Crime Victimization Survey, asks some 240,000 people a year whether they have been victims of a crime. The two measures have diverged since 2020: The FBI has been reporting less crime, while more people say they have been victims.

  The divergence is due to several reasons. In 2022, 31% of police departments nationwide, including Los Angeles and New York, didn’t report crime data to the FBI. In addition, in cities from Baltimore to Nashville, Tenn., the FBI is undercounting crimes those jurisdictions reported.

31% of jurisdictions DIDN'T EVEN REPORT CRIME DATA to the FBI? Including New York and Los Angeles? 

Gee, you think that had an effect on the crime statistics? 

And you think that doesn't prove (again) that the FBI is not to be trusted in anything? They should just change their name to the "Ministerium für Staatssicherheit" now and save the printing costs.

Go read it all.

Weekend Wilding Coverage

We had pointed out that not a single media outlet appeared to cover the Saturday night mayhem downtown this past weekend, and we lamented that the violence had become so commonplace (and expected) that it wasn't worthy of coverage according to the lib-tarded media.

But we discovered that someone is still out there covering it on the X / Twitter platform:

• William J Kelly twitter feed

This person is the reporter who got under Groot's skin, had his press credentials pulled and then sued her to get them back. He appears to be a bomb-thrower with some talent for digging out stories City Hall would rather no one saw.

Thanks to the reader that let us know.

Funeral Today

Some (or most) of the media links on the right hand side will have streaming coverage of the service and / or funeral procession.

RIP Officer Huesca.

Cops Wanted

But very few are applying, according to our old friend Jack Dunphy:

• Gentle reader, are you looking for a job? Are you interested in one in which you’re regularly exposed to staph infections, lice, scabies, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and every other imaginable parasite and infectious disease as borne by America’s largest population of drug-addicted vagrants?

  Would you like to work for a city whose municipal government is rife with socialists, people who would more quickly blame you for their city’s ills than the criminals who prey on their fellow citizens? Are you thrilled at the prospect of a job in which the split-second decisions you make in defending yourself and others from death or serious injury are endlessly scrutinized by people in your chain of command who have spent their careers avoiding situations requiring such decisions?

  And finally, are you hoping to work in a city where the district attorney is more eager to imprison you than the criminals you’re expected to confront? If all of that describes you, gentle reader, you’re in luck. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass wants you to know the LAPD is hiring.

And this hiring shortfall is hitting all of the usual blue-state $hitholes you'd expect. Including Chicago.

Go read it all.

Police Ain't Coming

As we suggested just yesterday:

• From the university’s perspective, it seemed like the perfect time for the police to move in and break up the students’ anti-genocide camp: 3 a.m.

  George Washington University had given the students until 7 p.m. on Thursday night to clear out. Instead more than a thousand students from other area universities and other supporters flooded the university yard, forming a circle around around the camp.

  As the time advanced beyond midnight the crowd dwindled, leaving the encampment less protected. It seemed logical that under the cover of darkness, with fewer media also present, the police would intervene, as they have on a growing number of campuses around the United States.

  And that’s what the GWU president wanted. But the Washington mayor and the police brass refused, according to The Washington Post.

This is Washington DC - ground zero for lib-tarded politicians and their sycophantic police officials since Ramsey left over a decade ago. 

And they're refusing to eject semi-peaceful political protestors from private property.

Maybe this catches on in time for the convention? Give the mob their "room to destroy."

Wilding is now Normal

Scanning the major media outlets and nary a mention of this weekend's wilding downtown.

Even the alternative media didn't mention it.

We guess it all went away?

• Anonymous said... Saturday night was Another shit show downtown, by Colombus & Illinois Streets . Again Mayor Conehead's [non-demonized] kids .. 60+ CPD Officers at least kept the assswipes off the street
  Of Course No comment from Fake Mayor Johnson
• Anonymous said... No coverage of the [mono-chromatic] mobs roaming downtown last night.. in prime tourist spots,,,, by any fake Chicago media.. Lets go brandon biden  

So unless someone gets shot or there's a "street takeover," it doesn't exist any more.

Good to know.

Good Idea?

We think it's the start of a good idea:

• In recent years, unofficial street parties celebrating Mexico’s Independence Day have surged in popularity: car caravans clog the Loop with bumper-to-bumper traffic as people dance in the streets, drivers do burnouts, and an orchestra of car horns fills the air.

  [...]  Now, there’s another plan—a plan to host a two-day Mexican Independence Day festival in Grant Park. The Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Mexican Consulate in Chicago are proposing the idea, which Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) revealed in his weekly newsletter on Friday.

  Organizers say Choose Chicago and the state support the event, which will run from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on September 14 and 15. According to a promotional flyer, the festival will include food, “family fun,” arts and crafts, live music and performances at the Petrillo Bandshell, and “some of the best Margaritas in town.”
  

This should be the pattern for ALL parades and big festivals moving forward. Once it hits a certain point, becomes a certain size, has a certain number of parade units / floats, then it goes down to Grant Park and travels down Columbus Drive. The advantages are monstrous:

• the staging area becomes Solidarity Drive for floats and parade units;
• easy storage of the iron fencing for crowd control;
  
• tons of paid parking - all money in the city coffers;
• one single route for clean-up, so less muss, less fuss, less Streets and San OT

Think about the regular parades calendared years in advance. Set a price for the permit, set manpower numbers for Traffic Aides, require certain numbers of security personnel paid for by the parade committee.

You could even work in the usual bribes and graft that follow these events.

UPDATE: We forgot to mention this, but with a single authorized parade / festival, then ALL other "celebrations" and street takeovers are now illegal. Politicians can hide behind the "....but there was an authorized celebration on...." while the Department comes up with a plan to take back the streets.

Of Course They Lied

Funny how someone who wants taxpayer money, always underestimates the eventual cost:

• The Bears’ pitch for a new domed lakefront stadium came with a $4.7 billion price tag. In reality, though, Chicago and Illinois taxpayers would end up paying $5.9 billion to help the Bears build and finance the stadium and retire existing debt used to renovate Soldier Field and Guaranteed Rate Field, where the White Sox play.

  Add to that the $1 billion already paid to revamp Soldier Field and Guaranteed Rate Field, and the overall cost to taxpayers is $6.9 billion, says Frank Bilecki, executive director of the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority.

  The higher costs were gleaned from figures provided by the Bears during their initial meeting with the stadium authority and in follow-up conversations with the team, Bilecki said.

And that's not even counting the under-the-table "asks" that the Bears are trying to sneak through:

• Although a new domed stadium would be built on lakefront parkland and owned by the Chicago Park District, the Bears are also seeking to dramatically sweeten for themselves the terms of a stadium lease that has been an almost constant source of contention between tenant and landlord over the years.

  “They’re asking to keep all of the revenue from other events that might take place at the stadium,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Thursday. “If there’s a Beyonce concert, they want all of that revenue, too, and everything else that might happen there. There are aspects of this that are probably non-starters.”

  Pritzker went further on Friday: “The deal that was presented didn’t take into account that taxpayers really aren’t going to do well under that proposal.”

All we're seeing is that Fata$$ and the other politicians haven't been offered enough bribe money to sell out taxpayers yet.

This also explains why Reinsdorf was opening his wallet suddenly - he wants to get inside of the Bears management who were demanding ALL of the ISFA bonding authority money to freeze out the White Sox new stadium efforts.

Think what all of that tax money could do for under-funded pensions if it was directed properly.

UofC Protests on Tap

Can you believe someone in the media is doing the surveillance that the feebs refuse to do?

• Startling group chat messages exposed by the Chicago Thinker reveal that on Wednesday, May 1, Students for Justice in Palestine at The University of Chicago (SJP UChicago) plans to emulate recent protests at Columbia University. It becomes the latest development in a wave of protests at colleges across the country, including Yale and New York University, as tensions around the Israel-Hamas war rise. 

  [...] At UChicago, SJP protestors are aiming to take over the university’s Main Quad and camp out for an extended period. A Telegram group chat details their plans to occupy campus buildings and get arrested for trespassing in order to draw attention to their cause. The demonstrations will last “at least for… two nights.”

Tuition at U of C is around $65,000. The University is associated with something like 99 Nobel Prize winners in assorted disciplines. The atomic bomb was pretty much created there. The Hyde Park neighborhood is a hotbed of lib-tards. Sparklefarts taught there.

Maybe they'll burn it to the ground. 

We can always hope.

In any event, don't get roped into a political protest on private University property. The Department will need everybody available in August and you don't want to be sitting at callback for any potential missteps.

Adressing Underfunding? Haha

Can anyone explain what this means to the newer Tier 2 kids?

• With a month and a half left in the General Assembly’s spring session, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration is readying its proposal to address Illinois’ chronically underfunded pension system.

  But the governor this week also acknowledged in the strongest terms yet that any plans to finally get the state on track toward fully funding retirement plans for public school teachers, university employees and state workers could be derailed by a looming legal fight over a 14-year-old law.

  Pritzker’s comments came as Illinois’ two influential statewide teachers unions were wrapping up a “week of action,” encouraging their members to call and email lawmakers and urge them to essentially “undo” a 2010 law that created a new less generous pension system for those who began their jobs after Jan. 1, 2011.

  The General Assembly and then-Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn quickly approved that law in the wake of the Great Recession, which forced state leaders to grapple with decades of underfunding in Illinois’ pension systems.

  But in the years since, economists and labor leaders have repeatedly warned that the retirement benefits in the Tier 2 system are so low that they might violate federal “Safe Harbor” laws. Those laws dictate Social Security replacement plans, like pensions, can’t offer benefits that don’t at least match Social Security.

We'll tell you what we think it means:

• massive tax increases and raising the retirement age
  

There might be more, but Fata$$ and the democrat super-majorities would rather spend hundreds of millions on illegal aliens than fixing a broken system.

Crimesha's Double Standard

Everyone always knew she was a useless "prosecutor."

And here's more proof that she's simply a useful idiot for the Machine:

• You may not be aware, but for the last four years the public policy of the Cook County state’s attorney’s office has been not to prosecute criminal violations tied to protests and demonstrations if the office deems those actions “peaceful.”

  That means the office as a matter of policy won’t prosecute protesters arrested for disorderly conduct, unlawful gathering or criminal trespass to state-supported land, among other laws.

  Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx reinforced these positions to her staff in a Nov. 15 memo, just as the protests over Israel’s campaign in the Gaza Strip were gaining momentum. Foxx’s office confirmed to us that the policy remains, even as aggressive protests on campuses have reached a point where some of America’s most storied universities have shut down in-person learning. She says it’s right there on the office’s website.

So political non-violent political protests were not going to be prosecuted....until August:

• She told us Thursday when we asked about the Nov. 15 memo that her office’s policy on protests won’t be in effect for the convention. Her office is huddling with other agencies such as the Chicago Police Department, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, the FBI and the Secret Service on how to handle law and order at the event and are developing a cooperative strategy.

  Foxx, understandably, didn’t tell us the precise tactics envisioned in this multigovernmental initiative, but she was clear that her Nov. 15 memo wouldn’t apply during that time.

So protests that might embarrass democrats at their convention will be arrestable and prosecutable.

Two sets of rules. 

Everyone better do themselves a favor and not be anywhere near Box 1 or Box 2 or named in the narrative of any arrest at the DNC.

Um...WTF? (UPDATES and Post Moved)

(This post was originally published at 2201 hours last night. We moved it to the top due to the ongoing nature of the incident)

From the comments:

• Off Topic:
  
  Dateline Chicago, Crook County
  
  The Person of interest in the murder of Officer Huesca hade a court date the other day at 26th and Cal for a prior Misdemeanor arrest. Of course he didn't show up. Detectives and the ASA wanted to get at least a warrant for missing court but under the "SAFETY" act the judge could not get one under state law since it was a misdemeanor and only his 1st appearance.
  
  This State is totally messed up.

So as suspected, another one of Crimesha's and Porky's "SAFE-T Act" $hitbirds walking around with ZERO restrictions? 

Great job you worthless fucks.

UPDATE: An arrest warrant has been issued according to media sources. Not in custody yet, but they know who they're looking for.

UPDATE: Raid overnight at 106th and Hale. Offender is in the wind, but his cousin was arrested for attempting to sell the Officer's gun.

Are These All DEI Hires?

Larritorious, check your staff:

• OT Rumor - Any truth to it that the Cmdr of Area 1 Det’s didn’t go to scene of the Huesca murder
  
  It gets better than that. None of the three Lts at the Area went to the scene that night and showed up the next day and had no clue what was going on. Why do u think this investigation is so messed up. Look who we have as the supposed “leaders” here

And after you check your staff, start replacing a few of these assholes.

Rahm, You Naughty Boy

People with money or influence (like politicians) have always done things like this:

• act immoral;
• learn someone in the media got info of the immorality;
• contact the person who was a party to the immorality and - through intermediaries - offer to "buy the rights" to the story for a mutually agreeable sum;
• sign contracts to this effect - non-disclosure agreements

And a compliant media plays along, dismissing other leaks as "mere rumor" or "unsubstantiated." 

Unless it serves "The Narrative" by destroying the immoral person (see Trump trial).

But then this leaks out:

• While testifying in former President Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial Thursday, the former publisher of the National Enquirer reportedly said he buried a story about an alleged affair by Rahm Emanuel before the former two-term Chicago mayor’s first City Hall campaign.

  David Pecker said under oath that he paid $20,000 for the story and then suppressed it, as he did for other celebrities managed by Emanuel’s brother, Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel, Politico reported.

  Ari Emanuel approached Pecker about killing the story soon after Rahm Emanuel stepped down as chief of staff to former President Barack Obama, Pecker testified on cross-examination by a Trump attorney.

Because back then, it wouldn't have looked good for Sparklefart's Chief of Staff to have had an extramarital affair. It could lead to uncomfortable questions, like the one that we have:

• who was the lucky guy?

9.5 is currently hiding in Japan, so he's not picking up the phone.

Hi Paul!

Rejected by voters, but in a few years, will be seen as a Voice of Reason:

• Paul Vallas, policy advisor for IllinoisPolicy.org, said the Chicago Teacher’s Union’s contract negotiation proposals are all moving towards having “more members, higher pay, less work, less accountability, and less school choice.”

   “Clearly the district has been losing enrollment in dramatic numbers. And plus the Union support for Sanctuary cities and unlimited migration,” said Vallas on a recent edition of the Chicago Morning Answer show. “I think this is part of their effort to capture that constituency and to fill the school district’s ranks,” he said about the CTU’s proposed $2000 newcomer package for asylum seeker students. 

  “I think half the schools are far from their enrollment levels and larger schools have only a small percentage of their seats filled. So clearly they’re embracing the sanctuary city concept; it’s a way to increase their enrollment after losing enrollment for about twenty consecutive years,” said Vallas. “ This contract is really all about more members, higher pay, less work, less accountability, and less school choice. That’s the bottom line, that’s what they want, and that’s ultimately where they’re going to end up.”

Chicago voters had a choice....and they (mostly) chose to stay home, leaving Conehead to win with something like the smallest mayoral turnout in history. 

So now the CTU is pretty much negotiating against their former lobbyist and aside from a few aldercreatures who know a bit less than we do about basic economics, Conehead is going to try to give away the non-existent store with the empty shelves.

Recall Petition

For anyone interested, there's a website for the ballot initiative to recall Conehead or any future Coneheads:

• Recall This Fall petition site

There are specific rules and legalities involved in collecting signatures....which we used to be familiar with during the petition drive we supported nearly ten years ago. They are listed on the website along with the procedures for submitting and deadlines.

This is actually a decent opportunity because you need 20% of the total number of voters who participated in the previous election. And seeing as how it was a record LOW turnout, the number of signatures needed is probably attainable with a concerted effort. 

It would probably take a day or three to get signatures from Roll Calls. Maybe the FOP could take a hand, make some appearances, collect a few thousand signatures over the course of a month? It wold certainly help this guy's efforts.

(Plus 10% or so for challenges that are sure to be mounted by assorted lawyers and politicians who fear a recall effort.)

Rumor - Bikes

We could see this happening:

• The city wants 500 officers on bicycles for the convention. A lot of them will be pulled from district manpower which is already critically low.

Over the past ten or twenty years, the Bicycle Officer has proven an adept counter-force against mobile groups of protestors who coordinate via cell phones and social media apps. They're able to re-deploy quickly, block streets temporarily, create mobile barricades, and shadow moving mobs.

Unfortunately (but accurately) it is said that generals and armies always prepare to fight the previous war. No doubt the "protestors" have been developing ways around this and the CPD will likely be caught using NATO tactics that are a decade in the past. They'll try to get around this by roping in every single bike "trained" officer. 

Whether or not it works....

"Completely Justified"

Here's the actual interview that Marty Preib was writing about:

• Law enforcement experts not affiliated with Chicago Police Department have an entirely different take on the shooting.

  “The shooting is completely within policy and completely justified,” Scott Ando, former head of the Independent Police Review Authority, COPA’s predecessor, recently told Crooked City author Martin Preib.

  “As such, if COPA were to recommend discipline for these officers relative to the shooting, I would gladly testify on their behalf before the Police Board, an arbitrator, or the court,” Ando said.

Read it all. It's important.

Unlikely Numbers

Someone answered the question posed yesterday about retirement numbers, but we have our doubts:

• 780-800 Police Officers, 300-350 Sgts are set to retire.

For 780 Officers (from Patrolmen to Detectives to ETs to all sorts of specialized title codes) seems likely and almost aligns with our estimates, but we don't think there are 300 sergeants even eligible to leave.

Still Supporting the NFL?

They haven't changed their left-wing stances....they've merely attempted to out-wait the bad publicity and lure gullible low-information consumers back:

• The left-wing nonprofit that bailed out anti-Israel protesters who blocked bridges and highways across the country last week was a multi-year partner of the NFL's "Inspire Change program" whose work is still promoted on the NFL's website.

All those hamas-holes blocking traffic, disrupting commerce and impeding traffic? The NFL supports that...or did until a couple weeks ago.

A leopard doesn't change it's spots, and an organization always tends to drift leftward politically. We could cite hundreds of examples without batting an eye.

Who's Got the Numbers?

Last year, it was reported that beat cops were down nearly 20% under Groot:

• Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s recent campaign ad claims “she’s put more police on the streets.” But the city’s own data shows that claim is simply not true. The number of beat cops has declined. 

  Sworn police officers assigned to the city’s 22 police districts for regular patrol duties are down 19 percent since Lightfoot took office in April of 2019. That’s according to updated February 2023 data from the city’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) dashboard on sworn police officer allocation by unit.

The numbers and graphs are there. Part of it was hiding more people in Units or HQ or the Academy. That hasn't improved much, though there are rumors of hiring retirees to man Academy spots and background investigations for Personnel to free up sworn officers for street duty.

But we're still hearing that beginning 15/16 May and continuing up until 15/16 August, nearly 1,000 officers of all ranks are retiring. That doesn't count resignations, firings or lateral moves, which an educated guess would account for another 100-to-who-knows how many on top of that thousand.

Our usual spies at Personnel left during The Hiatus, but someone has to have accurate numbers.

Terror Warnings

A side effect of the Open Border policy of president $hit-for-brains is no one has any idea how many potential terrorists are roaming the country right now....and that makes the feebs nervous:

• The FBI is "increasingly concerned" about a "coordinated terror attack" on the US amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, warning a potential attack could play out similarly to the deadly Russian concert hall massacre that killed 144 people.

  FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed that while the terrorism threat to America was "already elevated" prior to Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel the conflict has now raised it to a "whole other level". He chillingly warned that a terror attack on US soil may "not be that different from what you saw against the concert hall in Russia a few weeks ago from ISIS-K."

  Wray admitted that "lone actors or small radicalised groups" on US soil could be influenced to carry out a terror attack in a public place. It comes as he reveals the threat environment the US is currently facing is at an all-time high.

So when the feebs aren't...

• chasing down peaceful anti-abortion protestors 
• or missing the next "known wolf" mass shooter
  
• or unarmed grandmothers who toured the Capitol 
• or covering up mass rapes of female gymnasts 
• or committing hundreds of thousands of Civil Rights / FISA violations

...then they're issuing near-useless warnings about a potential mass casualty event.

How useless is the FBI nowadays?

• “We don’t monitor protests, but we do share intelligence about specific threats of violence with campuses and local law enforcement,” (FBI Director) Wray answered.

  He added, “But we don’t monitor protests.”

Sure. Why bother monitoring (or infiltrating) the groups preaching and supporting the most anti-American hatred? 

Unless they're "right wing" conservatives unhappy with the current trajectory of the political discourse in the US. Then they're the "biggest threat" ever heard of....unlike the "mostly peaceful" #blm and antifa mass lootings / burnings of a few years ago.

These federal morons are going to be sooooo helpful come August.

Right on Time....a Lawsuit

The body must have cooled off enough?

• A federal lawsuit filed by the mother of Dexter Reed contends he was killed by Chicago police officers who unlawfully pulled over his SUV last month and were “outrageously” aggressive as they approached him.

  The lawsuit accuses Chicago police of promoting “brutally violent, militarized policing tactics,” and argues that the five officers who stopped Reed “created an environment that directly resulted in his death.”

  Reed, 26, was driving in the 3800 block of West Ferdinand Street in Humboldt Park on March 21 when tactical officers in an unmarked car stopped his GMC Terrain. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the oversight agency investigating the shooting, has said Reed was stopped for a minor seatbelt violation.

  But video footage released by COPA shows the officers aggressively approached Reed, drawing their guns as they yelled for him to lower his window and open his door. Instead, Reed opened fire and struck one of the officers in the wrist, according to COPA.

  The other officers shot back, firing as many as 96 shots in 41 seconds, COPA said.

Firstly, it's still a violation, big or small, doesn't matter. Police are tasked with enforcing them all. You want it changed, there's a legislature in session....change the law.

Second, the "militarized policing tactics" is just a nonsense word salad. Define it and we'll guarantee nothing like that occurred or is taught or written in CPD directives.

Thirdly, Reed shot first, Reed shot at the police, Reed wounded an Officer....who happened to be black. We mention that to head off the inevitable accusations of racial profiling.

And lastly, can someone at the FOP sue the media outlets who keep saying "96 shots." All of the official documentation that COPA put on its website shows this to be a lie and the media continues to misrepresent the scumbag lib-tarded head of COPA Andrea Kersten's bullshit e-mail as an "investigation" that still hasn't reached completion.

Still a "No"

Taking public property and also asking (demanding) taxpayers foot half the bill for a private corporation....we're not on board:

• The Chicago Bears unveiled plans for a new stadium on the city’s lakefront Wednesday afternoon, the newest update in a years-long process by the NFL franchise to replace Soldier Field with a state-of-the art venue that would allow Chicago to host major sporting events like the Super Bowl and the NCAA Final Four.

  The Bears unveiled the plans during an afternoon press conference at Soldier Field. Mayor Brandon Johnson attended and delivered a speech following opening remarks from Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren. The Bears said they are aiming to break ground in the summer of 2025, with a planned grand opening in the summer of 2028. 

  But there are a few financial questions to be answered. Last month, Warren announced the team would provide more than $2 billion in funding to build a publicly-owned domed stadium and park space along the lakefront.

  On Tuesday, however, the Chicago Tribune reported the Bears’ plan will ask taxpayers to cover about half the costs to build the new stadium. According to the report, sources speaking on condition of anonymity told the Tribune the plan is estimated to cost $4.6 billion to execute, with $3.2 billion directed toward building the new stadium itself and another $1.4 billion dedicated to infrastructure improvements around and outside the stadium.

  Sources told the Tribune the Bears plan to put forward $2.3 billion in private capital, which would include some financing coming from the NFL. But the Bears’ plan will also ask for $2.3 billion in public financing.
  

We're pretty sure there have to be a number of hearings at various levels of government, along with a bond issue and the inevitable lawsuits by Friends of the Parks and other parties looking for either a payout or a piece of the action.

And after the convention riots this fall, no one is going to want to commit billions of non-existent taxpayer dollars to a stadium. Those non-existent dollars will have to be earmarked to rebuilt other burned down buildings.

UPDATE: Reinsdorf is sensing public mistrust of stadium spending and is (finally) offering to pay an unspecified portion from his own team money.

PO Huesca - Line of Duty

With all the honors that go with it:

• The procession carrying fallen CPD Officer Luis Huesca's body arrived at the funeral home at about 4 p.m. Tuesday. It is the same funeral home his close friend and fellow officer, Andrés Vásquez Lasso, was mourned at just over one year ago.

  On what would have been his 31st birthday, Huesca's flag-draped coffin was transported from the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office to Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn. His family followed close behind as hundreds of Chicago police officers escorted Huesca to where his body will now be prepared for burial.

  Visitation is Sunday from 1 p.m. through 8 p.m. at Blake Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn. A funeral mass is planned for Monday at 10 a.m. at St. Rita of Cascia Catholic Church on Western Avenue in Chicago.

Hopefully, before the funeral, there will also be some good news in the manhunt to bring closure all around.

Foot Traffic is Up?

We're going to go out on a limb here and say, "bullshit:"

• The Loop is showing some signs of a revival as the average weekend foot traffic exceeded pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter, the Chicago Loop Alliance said Tuesday. But the group’s report said weekday activity still lags.

  The average weekend pedestrian activity on State Street was at 107% of 2019 levels. During the workweek from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m., foot traffic was about 91% of pre-pandemic activity.

  Total pedestrian activity on State Street was up 7% compared to the first quarter of 2023, representing 1.5 million “impressions” per week, and at 94% of 2019 levels. The impressions are counted by analytics firm Springboard MRI, which collects data daily from counters on top of buildings along State Street, from Ida B. Wells Drive to Wacker Drive, that track silhouettes of people but not any identifying features.

Have you been downtown during the week? It's a ghost town. 

And the buildings? Plywood forests.

The article admits as much:

• Hotel occupancy was 51%, up 3 percentage points from the same period in 2023, and 11 percentage points lower than the first quarter of 2019.

  Chicagoans and visitors are returning to the Loop, “but we have to give them a reason to stay,” said Michael Edwards, president and CEO of the Chicago Loop Alliance. “The Loop needs more investors to bet big on our district right now,” he said, citing wins from Google and JPMorgan Chase for their plans to open or refurbish offices in the Loop.

Google and JP Morgan aren't going to revitalize a dying restaurant industry or a dead convention industry. And tourists are correctly nervous about the wilding season ramping up. You know how bad it's gotten? Are you aware that there are only two McDonald's locations in the actual downtown area anymore?

We're willing to bet these automated tracking devices are getting their weekend number bumps from two-or-three-or-four-hundred jackass teens running around, taking over street corners, looting what businesses remain and beating whatever visitors stumble across their paths. Remember, these devices are only tracking silhouettes - nothing identifiable. You get a robot to count them multiple times as they run back-and-forth from the bikes and arrest teams and you can fake a few thousand "visitors" without any effort.

Get Rid of ShotSpotter!

Conehead is going to have a hard time justifying his previous decision to unload ShotSpotter:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson dodged questions when reporters asked him on Monday to square his decision to cancel the city’s relationship with ShotSpotter given that an alert from the gunfire detection system is how Chicago police officers first learned of a shooting that left an off-duty officer dead over the weekend.

  Many aldermen representing wards struggling with violent crime want to keep ShotSpotters in their wards. But Johnson’s allies—mostly aldermen representing more affluent, safer neighborhoods that aren’t even monitored by ShotSpotter—are blocking those efforts.

  Meanwhile, the technology continues to help Chicago police officers bring charges against people for allegedly firing guns on the city’s streets.

CWB goes on to list three recent cases, all resulting in arrests, gun recoveries and charges.

It's amusing to see the "more affluent, safer neighborhood..." aldercreatures representing the....let's just say "more pale" segments of Chicago telling the bleeding, broken and maimed parts of town that they don't need ShotSpotter since it only seems to point cops in the direction of minority shooters who are actually doing 90% of the shooting.

Tennessee Shooting

An amusing little bit of video from Memphis:

• X / Twitter link here

A "teen takeover" where a Corvette is doing donuts in the middle of the street.

Sixteen people ended up shot (2 dead) about seven seconds into the video. A captured still photo shows no less than what appears to be four rifles being brandished over the heads of the crowd:

These are the blue $hithole cities now.