Saturday, February 15, 2020

Who Wore it Better?

This one started making the rounds a day or so ago:


We're going to have to go with Don Johnson for this one.

UPDATE: Best comment so far - "Crockett....and Stubbs."

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Progressives v Free Speech

Seems the authoritarian side of progressives always wins out:
  • L.L. was so furious that protesters were at City Hall blocking her door she ordered City Hall Sgt. K to arrest women and children protesting with media present. He refused and was dumped a few week before his retirement. Is she really that stupid??????
At least the sergeant can retire with his conscience clean.

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Conway and the NRA

Some readers took issue with our encouragement to pull a dem ballot for the primary given Conway's anti-NRA statements. We are aware of the statements and grant them little or no credence for the following reasons:
  • Of course he's going to tailor his message. Every politician does it to some extent. If this gets him in the door to legitimately challenge Foxxx, we'll put up with his pandering for now because...
  • As Cook County States Attorney, how much influence does he actually have against the NRA? We'll give you a hint - zero. Crimesha should be prosecuting actual criminals and enforcing the laws on the books, not letting jagoffs go and creating law out of thin air.
  • Conway is correct in this - the office needs to prosecute criminals, not play social justice warrior.
As for the anti-Trump stuff, so what? He's one of thousands of yippy dogs nipping at the coattails of the more powerful. If it gets him credibility with the voters to displace Foxxx, who cares?

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Friday, February 14, 2020

Conway

We're going to pick a side here and it isn't going to make some people happy. We're going to have to encourage the readers to do the following:
  • Pfannkuche is going to be the Republican nominee. It's pretty much a guarantee. For this reason, we're going to encourage all CPD and anyone you can reach out to, to forgo voting in the Republican primary.
  • Instead, ask for a democrat ballot (yes, it's painful, but it's the only way to actually succeed at what we're proposing).
  • Vote for Conway in the primary race for Cook County State's Attorney. While you're at it, vote for Bernie Sanders (feel the bern!) Bernie winning will help hobble democrats nationally, so go for it.
  • THIS IS THE BEST OPPORTUNITY TO DEFEAT CRIMESHA FOXXX. If she makes it past the primary, she's going to eat Phannkuche for lunch. That's simply a fact of voting demographics. So she has to lose the primary.
Don't discount it. There's some support for it as voters see the outrageous crimes being committed by persons out on bail, not serving sentences, not even being charged, and being released to terrorize the same communities over and over again.

Conway has the money. More doesn't even have six-figures in her campaign accounts. Is Conway a "progressive"? He's making those noises, but it seems his record is a bit to the right of Foxxx's, so he's got that going for him. Plus, if voters launch the incumbent, the Machine sits up and takes notice.

It's not the optimal solution, but it's what we've got. Vote early. Vote often. Vote absentee if you have to. And don't worry about, "If I vote I might have to serve on a jury." Cook County uses Driver's Licenses for the jury pools and has for years now.

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Bought and Paid For

  • It seemed strange enough the Sun-Times editorial board on Monday "strongly" endorsed Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx for a second term, telling voters to spare her the "injustice" of letting a "single high-profile mistake ... overshadow her accomplishments."

    Foxx's "single" flub, of course, was cutting a deal to drop felony charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who police say faked a hate crime last year, and misleading the public about recusing herself from the case, among other things.

    By Tuesday afternoon, the paper's early support of Foxx's re-election bid grew even more shocking when word got out that special prosecutor Dan Webb obtained an indictment of Smollett on six new charges related to filing false reports that he was the victim of a homophobic hate crime, and said the investigation to determine whether "any person or office involved in the Smollett case engaged in wrongdoing" continues.

    Until you follow the money, that is.
Money totaling over $750,000:
  • But there's no mention of the $301,250 Sun-Times investor Michael Sacks has personally pumped into Foxx's campaign since September.

    The endorsement doesn't include a disclaimer revealing the political action committees controlled by the Service Employees International Union (part of a collection of unions that own the paper) kicked in $425,000 to support Foxx's campaign in the last four months, according to public records.

    There wasn't a single sentence about the $25,000 Sun-Times investor and politically connected real estate investor Elzie Higginbottom donated in October that the Friends of Foxx campaign didn't report receiving until Jan. 15, according to state election board records.
And the George Soros money, too.

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No One Mentioned This

We venture no opinion on this. We post it merely in the interest of full disclosure to all members of the CPD and all taxpayers of Chicago:
  • LANCASTER - The son of Dallas Police Chief David Brown killed a Lancaster police officer and another man during a Sunday melee that left three people dead, according to a law enforcement official.

    David Brown Jr., 27, was himself shot and killed by officers, according to the official.

    A law enforcement source who is familiar with the case and who asked that he not be identified said Brown had been behaving erratically at the apartment complex where the shootings occurred, in the 900 block of River Bend Drive near West Pleasant Run Road in southern Dallas County.
This was nearly ten years ago and the sins of the son shouldn't pass to the father. But as a finalist for the top job here, full disclosure is the watchword.

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"Do Not Hire" List

  • It's hard to believe Chicago City Hall's employment blacklist is only 29 pages long.

    Fired police Supt. Eddie Johnson and the local media's favorite City Hall spokesman, Bill McCaffery, who also recently got the axe, are the latest former employees blackballed from city jobs. Jose Moreno, a former Chicago firefighter who pleaded guilty to molesting five children, and 21 other former Fire Department employees won't be considered for city jobs in the future.
Nearly 200 cops, almost 50 Department of Aviation people, a couple of aldercreatures - running to twenty-nine pages.

Almost as shocking are the names that aren't on it, including some very connected people who did prison time.

We don't have anything to add, just an amusing read we thought we'd share.

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When Sergeants Attack

Remember, the clouted are always covered for - even when they act like criminals:
  • Question: When is Sgt Thompson going to get stripped for falsifying a fake battery report. He jumped in a PO’s face and pushed him. Mind you the PO is bigger than the jolly green giant. Well the sergeant got flipped by a one hand face grab and stretched out on the floor. They tried to cover it up but too many DEA guys were witnesses. Wonder what happened to that CR??????
We're betting the PO didn't want to make waves, but seriously, attacking a police officer? In front of outside witnesses? And then filing a fake Battery report to cover your lawbreaking - lawbreaking in front of feds?

Beck, you hear about this one?

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Thursday, February 13, 2020

Do Not Get Drawn In - Stay Fetal

So "Accountability Tuesday" reappeared for the first time since Special Ed was getting his knob polished:
  • Mayor Lori Lightfoot summoned interim Police Supt. Charlie Beck and the 41 commanders under his control to City Hall on Tuesday to talk about ways to tamp down the violence after Chicago suffered its deadliest February weekend in 18 years.

    “I wouldn’t describe the mayor as angry. I’m not angry. She’s not angry. We’re concerned,” Beck told the Sun-Times. “We have some issues that we’re dealing with in certain pockets of Chicago. We met to talk about those strategies. I’m not gonna go into them in depth, except to say that they involve a broad range of resources focused on areas that have suffered the violence the most.”
  • Chicago “could have a mess on our hands that eclipses some of the worst years of violence” the city has seen, unless police get proactive and use all the tools available to them, Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned Wednesday.

    After a weekend of violence — including nine homicides — that was the worst in February in 18 years, Lightfoot summoned interim Chicago Police Supt. Charlie Beck and 41 CPD commanders under his control to essentially read them the riot act.

    “This weekend’s crime numbers, where we saw so many homicides and we saw a lot of shootings, were incredibly distressing to me,” Lightfoot said. “I’m not gonna shy away from that and I had a lot of very difficult conversations with CPD leadership over the weekend, Monday and yesterday.”
Did any of the conversations center around the continuous harassment of Police by so many oversight organizations, that actual policing is dead? COPA is re-opening investigations that have been adjudicated years ago, just so they can fire officers previously cleared. Force Review is fine-combing videos looking for any and all infractions and recommending officers be pulled from the street for "training" - training that is actually punishment. IAD is continually covering for corrupt clouted officers.

And do we really have to go over the Crimesha disaster, where robbers are pled out to probation and then go on to murder multiple victims at the same time. Continuing Investigations that never get charged. Last week's article about murder stats being fudged, meaning known murderers are out and about, free to kill again.

Stop-and-Frisk? "Racist."

Citizen contacts? "Racist."

Traffic stops? "Racist."

If you get told over and over, even after months of training and hours of on-the-job training and extra training and more training that ever before, that everything you do is under review by armchair quarterbacks who never served a day on the street, that never made a snap decision under unbelievable pressure, then guess what? The smartest move you can make, day after day, is to disengage. Do not jeopardize your continued employment or your remaining free from prison and/or bankruptcy.

You have sown the wind. Now reap the whirlwind.

UPDATE: As many mentioned, coming up on THREE years without a Contract, and the only reason it's take this long is the political players want the FOP (and PBPA) to sign off on every single negotiated Disciplinary Protection....you know, to make it even easier to fire us for any offense, real or imagined.

Makes us want to rush right out and fight crime....how about you?

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...and Then There Were Four

  • A shortlist of candidates vying to be Chicago’s next top cop includes a woman who leads a suburban department and a former police chief from Texas, both of whom had officers injured or killed in mass shootings in the last few years, the Tribune has learned.

    The Chicago Police Board, tasked with reviewing applications from a pool of 25 candidates to be the next police superintendent, has yet to narrow down its search to three finalists to present to Mayor Lori Lightfoot for her consideration.

    But sources familiar with the applicants said the board’s roster of candidates has been whittled down to a handful of names, among them Sean Malinowski, a former Los Angeles police official who has worked as a top consultant for the Chicago Police Department for the past few years; Kristen Ziman, chief of police in west suburban Aurora; Ernest Cato, a deputy chief for the department; and David Brown, a former Dallas police chief.
The smart money is still on Malinowski given his ties to the interim and the University of Chicago eggheads currently running studies, pilot programs and pretty much the entire department.

However, money could be an issue as Malinowski is rumored to be earning well north of half-a-million with the outside consulting contracts. Would he take a 50% (or larger) pay cut to run a doomed department and a city on the verge of a 600+ homicide year?

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CTA Detail

So we have the "Window Detail" over Christmas, where Probationary Police Officers are sent to Michigan Avenue over the holidays to provide a visible presence of "security" to assuage nervous tourists who might otherwise decide to stay home, shop online or :::gasp::: spend money in the far-safer suburbs.

Now we are going to have a "Tube Detail" to cover current failures in charge of Mass Transit:
  • The Chicago police department is preparing to deploy a temporary task force to address crime on the CTA’s elevated train system. News of the plan emerged hours after CWBChicago yesterday reported that CPD and CTA leaders were preparing significant changes in the way the two agencies address rail safety.

    “I want to put cops on dots,” CTA Vice President of Security Kevin Ryan told CWBChicago this week, referring to L stations that are represented by dots on the transit system’s maps.

    The police department seems to be moving in Ryan’s direction with the patrol surge, which will run from March 5 to Memorial Day. Two or three officers will be pulled from each of the city’s 22 police districts to staff the mobile patrol unit for about eight hours each evening, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
Golly, is that Iron Mike? Must be nice to get such a soft landing.

And Albany Park residents - remember those ten cops you were promised to alleviate shortages? It just became seven. The Amazing Shrinking Manpower solution.

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Crime is....Up!

Beck has a problem.

Groot has a problem, but she can just blame Beck:


Something emboldened the criminals, and they're having a field day with it.

Thanks to our stat guy for the chart. Don't expect to see this in the papers.

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That Was Fast

We guess it isn't that hard to be a captain if they're already getting their assignments:
  • Meleon to 022 (old list)
    Mannion to 001
    Oseguera to 009
    Baier to 010
    McKenzie to 011
    Hein to 015
    Bielfeldt to 018
Next up - 25 lieutenants and 55 sergeants. Supposedly, no "merit" among them all.

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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Juicy Charged

  • A little less than a year after he walked out of a Cook County courthouse seemingly never to return, Jussie Smollett again faces criminal charges as a special prosecutor Tuesday announced a new indictment accusing the former “Empire” star of faking a 2019 hate crime attack.

    The new indictment brought by Special Prosecutor Dan Webb — and a three-page statement that rebukes Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s decision last year to dismiss charges against Smollett — land about a month from a Democratic primary in which Foxx is fighting to win a second term.

    The charges almost certainly will vault Smollett’s case — which involves six counts that are the lowest level of felony offenses in state law — back into national headlines.

    Foxx’s office accused former federal prosecutor Webb of roiling the political waters in “James Comey-like” timing, invoking the former FBI director’s decision to announce an investigation of then-candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails ahead of the 2016 presidential election. The state’s attorney’s office also issued a brief statement.
We're actually surprised Webb didn't bury this until after the primary. What does he know that we haven't heard yet? 
  • Are there some internal numbers that hint Crimesha is in a weak spot?
  • Or is this meant to drive supporters to the polls since a pasty white Special Prosecutor is picking on Crimesha?
Webb is a product of the Machine. Always has been. If he's doing this now, at this point, it's at the behest of someone pulling the levers. The voters have to sift through the bullshit to see which ones.

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Worse and Worse for Crimesha

  • A South Shore man who received just two years probation for committing a pair of 2018 robberies in Boystown has been charged with the cold-blooded slayings of two men during a botched robbery in Chinatown this weekend.

    Prosecutors on Monday charged 20-year-old Alvin Thomas with two counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of 36-year-old Huayi Bian and 38-year-old Weizhon Xiong in a parking lot on the 2000 block of South Wells around 2:13 a.m. Sunday.
The above is from the CWB blog. But the Slum Times endorsed Crimesha yesterday, despite knowing that this asshole was charged with a pair of robberies and was currently on probation.

Who in their right mind offers probation for TWO robberies?

Not only that, but a little birdie whispers to us that this jagoff was (thisclose) to being released because Felony Review demanded more video than what already existed - the offender trying to carjack other vehicles on the expressway ramp, fleeing the scene immediately after the shootings and being covered in the victims' blood. That's not good enough for Crimesha's social justice warriors.

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Preview of Illinois' Future

This is in Michigan. Do not doubt for a second it's coming here:
  • Everywhere you turn, headlines scream about criminal justice “reform” and the need to change how we prosecute and punish people who break the law. But instead of moving toward positive change in the name of law and order, we’re essentially just redefining what constitutes an actual crime.

    And this story out of Michigan is no different.

    According to the Lansing City Pulse, Ingham County Prosecutor Carol Siemon is on a mission to empty her community’s local prison. And it’s starting with reviewing cases of convicted murderers who are currently serving life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Guess who she sounds like?
  • “While I personally believe there are some people who should be in prison forever, like the Jeffrey Dahmer type of people, I just don’t believe in the death penalty,” Siemon says. “I think life in prison without parole functions in a similar way, and I think everyone should have an opportunity to be able to get out some day.”

    So now she’s trying to commute their sentences. Reports said that with the help of former Assistant Attorney General Ron Emery, Siemon will begin a review of 90 inmates convicted of murder and sentenced to life behind bars. Critics are losing their minds. And for good reason. Because it’s not about guilt, Siemon says – it’s about progression and a potential change in character.

    “It’s not whether or not they’re innocent,” Siemon said in an interview. “We’re not saying that. But if they committed a homicide 40 years ago, who are they now? And do they deserve another chance? To my knowledge, nobody else is doing this type of thing in the state. It has just been something rolling around in my head.”
This type of insane thinking permeates the left, pretty much from top-to-bottom. It completely ignores the victims, victims' families, and the safety of the community at large.

Should any of this crap come to pass, this idiot should be required to house the first two of those released into her home on a trial basis, just to see how it would all work out.

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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Correction

It wasn't the worst weekend in seven years.

It was the worst February weekend in EIGHTEEN years - and the Slum Times actually reported it:
  • In terms of violence, Chicago hadn’t seen a weekend like that in 18 years.

    The nine murders on the South and West sides between Friday night and early Sunday were the most in a single February weekend since 2002, according to a review of publicly available police data. All nine victims were men between 19 and and 39 years old.

    Another 14 people were wounded by gunfire, including a 7-year-old girl in Humboldt Park.
How bad is 2020 shaping up?
  • Chicago has recorded 50 murders so far in 2020. Three more people have been fatally shot by CPD officers.

    Interim CPD Supt. Charlie Beck is set to meet with Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday to discuss the weekend violence.
Fifty murders in under six weeks. That's a hell of a pace to keep up.

Well, at least Beck is on the case. He's got something like three weeks left and then he's out the door, right? Why would he give a rat's ass what Groot wants to discuss?

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Nice Catch of Media Bias

Sometimes, it's so obvious it escapes notice. A reader pointed out the Slum Times reporting on the shooting in 019:
  • About 5:15 a.m., officers in the area responded to calls of a disturbance outside of Tai’s Til 4, 3611 N. Ashland Ave., and as officers arrived, an armed male shot a person outside of the bar and attempted to run from the scene, interim CPD Superintendent Charlie Beck said at a press conference.
So they report the offender shot another individual. Pretty factual.

Then this:
  • As officers pursued the armed male, he allegedly fired shots at police and an officer returned fire, fatally striking him, Beck said. The armed male was pronounced dead at the scene, and a gun was recovered.
Now the narrative is "allegedly" because everyone knows the police can't be victims of gun wielding assassins. No, the media has to introduce that element of doubt into the lib-tarded narrative because you never know - it might turn out to be a white cop and a black offender and then you can spin a yarn of racial disparities that don't actually exist.

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Rapscallions

"Scamps" didn't seem to cover it:
  • Three juveniles are charged after a police chase that ended in a car crash in South Chicago.

    Police said the minors — ages 13, 12 and 10 — were speeding in a Jeep Cherokee around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, when they rear-ended an unmarked police car and drove away. Officers chased the Jeep to the 8700 block of South Chicago Avenue, where it then crashed into nine parked vehicles at a car dealership before flipping over.
Anyone hear from the parents? Are they paying for the damages caused by their spawn?

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Monday, February 10, 2020

Shooting

  • An armed person was shot to death by Chicago police Sunday after allegedly shooting someone outside of a bar in Lake View on the North Side.

    About 5:15 a.m., officers in the area responded to calls of a disturbance outside of Tai’s Til 4, 3611 N. Ashland Ave., and as officers arrived, an armed male shot a person outside of the bar and attempted to run from the scene, interim CPD Superintendent Charlie Beck said at a press conference.

    As officers pursued the armed male, he allegedly fired shots at police and an officer returned fire, fatally striking him, Beck said. The armed male was pronounced dead at the scene, and a gun was recovered.
By all accounts, a particularly heroic bit of police work in harrowing circumstances. Very well done Officer.
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