Conehead the Moron

There sure seem to be a lot of elected morons in Illinois. 

That doesn't say much about voters that keep electing them either.

• Today, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed the ‘ICE On Notice’ executive order directing members of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to investigate and document alleged illegal activity by federal immigration agents and refer evidence of felony violations to the Cook County State’s Attorney's Office for prosecution.  

  "Nobody is above the law. There is no such thing as ‘absolute immunity’ in America,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson. “The lawlessness of Trump’s militarized immigration agents puts the lives and well-being of every Chicagoan in immediate danger. With today’s order, we are putting ICE on notice in our city. Chicago will not sit idly by while Trump floods federal agents into our communities and terrorizes our residents.” 

  Executive Order 2026-01 creates a framework for public accountability in the event federal agents violate local or state law while operating in Chicago. Mayor Johnson’s order makes Chicago the first city in the nation to leverage local authority to pursue legal accountability for misconduct by federal immigration agents. 

But lo' and behold, guess who said her office wasn't consulted about any of this, even though Conehead said she was?

• Within hours, O’Neill Burke publicly contradicted the mayor’s claims.

  “Mayor Johnson’s statement is not true,” O’Neill Burke wrote on Twitter. “The CCSAO did not receive the Executive Order until it was released to the public. We do not provide legal approval of any matter until we’ve reviewed it. On such a critical issue, it’s important we get it right.”

So who are you going to believe - an actual lawyer familiar with (at the very least) actual law? Or a failed social studies teacher from the CPS system that can't get more than one-third of kids reading, writing or 'rithmeticing at grade level?

Then the head of the FOP got involved:

• The head of Chicago’s largest police union unleashed a scathing attack on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s executive order establishing protocols for potential prosecution of federal immigration agents, calling the directive a “piece of toilet paper” and questioning the competence of city leadership.

  FOP Lodge #7 President John Catanzara Jr. provided the remarks to The Center Square following Johnson’s signing of an executive order on Saturday that the mayor said would lay the groundwork for criminal prosecution of federal immigration agents accused of misconduct while operating in Chicago.

And what report - pray tell - exists to document "potential crimes"?

• GOCR - Non-Criminal?

That's a GREAT use of police resources! Especially if you read the US Constitution:

• Article VI, Clause 2: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

That is the Supremacy Clause, the basis for numerous US Supreme Court decisions whereby Federal authorities operating under Federal Law are pretty much immune from contradictory state laws.

This means that everyone, from O'Neill-Burke to Catanzara, is far smarter than Conehead, who  is trying his best to be some sort of....king....with his "executive orders," which don't really fall within the scope of his powers as there is no local law that can override Federal Supremacy.

A bit of advice - don't get roped into generating some sort of paperwork under this "order." Politely refuse it as "not part of the duties of a Chicago Police Officer." 

If ordered, be sure to activate your body camera - after all, this is a "police action." Ask for precise directions as to (1) report to be used, (2) proper headings, and most importantly (3) the name, rank and star of anyone giving the order starting with your sergeant and working upwards from there. Maybe even have a witness nearby (preferably your Unit Rep) and take your time, making sure of spelling, grammar structure, dates, times, witness names, witness addresses....

After an hour or three of malicious compliance, this whole thing goes away. 

Voting Time!

And anyone can do it, multiple times, without limit!

• Chicagoans can vote through Sunday to pick a notable Italian to be honored with a statue in Little Italy’s Arrigo Park, where a statue of Christopher Columbus once stood.

  Eight notable Italian Americans are finalists in a little-advertised contest for the honor:

• Amerigo Vespucci, the explorer after whom America is named.
• Antonin Scalia, a former U.S. Supreme Court justice appointed by former President Ronald Reagan.
• Enrico Fermi, the creator of the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago.
• Florence Scala, an activist who challenged the construction of the University of Illinois at Chicago in the early 1960s in Little Italy and served at Hull House.
• Maria Montessori, a physician and educator who developed a new way of teaching very young children through play and hands-on activities.
• Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American saint, who served poor Italian immigrants in Chicago.
• Phillip Mazzei, who aided the American Revolution and is credited with inspiring former President Thomas Jefferson to include the phrase “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence.
• Renato Dulbecco, a virologist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering that some viruses can cause cancer.

No Joe DiMaggio? Frank Sinatra? Tony Accardo? Ah well.

In any event, here's the link to go vote.

And the best part is:

• Officials said only Chicagoans should vote in the contest, and should cast only one ballot. While the online form created on a Microsoft platform asks voters for their name and ZIP code, there is no mechanism to prevent people from outside the city from casting a ballot by creating a false name and picking a random Chicago zip code.

  Park District officials said “submissions are monitored for irregular or duplicate voting patterns.”

In other words, it's EXACTLY like Chicago elections have been for over one hundred years!

Go vote today! Then do it again! And again! And again! 

New COPA Head

Anyone familiar with CPD history knows that following the Summerdale Scandal in 1960, Old Man Daley was under political pressure to reform the Department. He was forced to appoint a committee to hunt for a new supernintendo.

But Old Man Daley had a plan - he brought in a police "expert" to head the search committee, a nationally known person named O.W. Wilson. The committee went through the motions, and then Daley had his inside guy on the panel pull one of those, "Aw shucks. The best person to head the CPD is the guy running this search committee!"

This has the same feel: 

• Chicago’s police oversight board on Thursday tapped the interim head of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to lead the city agency charged with investigating serious allegations of Chicago Police Department misconduct on a permanent basis.

  The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability voted unanimously to select LaKenya White, a 26-year veteran of Chicago’s police accountability system, crediting her with improving “the quality, consistency and timeliness” of investigations conducted by the agency better known as COPA while improving the morale of the staff and “internal operations.”

  “COPA’s work requires leadership that understands both the technical demands of complex investigations and the human impact those investigations have on families, officers and communities,” said Remel Terry, president of the police oversight board known as the CCPSA. “LaKenya has spent her career inside Chicago’s police accountability system, and she understands how this agency operates at every level.”

Someone from the inside doesn't feel right - the institutional bias of COPA (OPS, IPRA) is well known and well documented. But we've already had a comment or two from a retired sergeant who claims she's actually not bad - not a "friend" by any means, but someone who follows the procedures established and who would allow investigations to proceed where it goes instead of steering it politically.

If has nothing to do with us anymore - we're out of the system. But we have plenty of friends still in it and we worry about them getting to the finish line. 

Hopefully, it works out. Time will tell. 

Bank Fails

Banks fail. It happens. There's an almost-candidate for mayor who cost taxpayers something like $150 million and he's paid no political price for it.

This one turns out amusing for different reasons:

• State regulators closed Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust on Friday, marking the first bank failure in the United States in 2026 and Chicago’s second in as many years.

  The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation ordered the River North-based bank’s closure due to concerns over its financial stability.

And who bought it?

• The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was named receiver and brokered the sale of most of the bank’s $261 million in assets to First Independence Bank in Detroit, including all deposits.

A bank....from Detroit. 

We had no idea anything associated with Detroit was financially viable. 

Interesting, to say the least.

"Merit" Strikes Again

When you don't DO the job, you don't KNOW the job:

• O/T Area One Detective Commanders Watson had her first of many depositions from her unit the other day. She put it off a few times, but they finally forced her to go. She was asked “What does ATC stand for?”, and she stated she didn’t know. She was then asked, “What was a SPAR?”, and she couldn’t explain what it was or what SPAR stands for. There’s a lot of chattering going on at Corp Council right now. 

Someone taken care of their entire career, shielded from having to make snap decisions, probably protected from having to deal with the public, supervise under stress, perhaps even making (or approving) an arrest involving Use of Force....now supervising a Detective Area?

And testifying under oath in court. This will probably cost taxpayers millions. Again. 

Granny Clampett

She just can't stay out of the news as the most incompetent carpetbagger of all time:

ILLEGAL ALIENS have no business enforcing laws when they can't follow the law themselves.

(note: ILLEGAL ALIENS are different from resident aliens who are here legally, have green cards, have declared their intentions to become citizens and are in the midst of the process - we've served with more than a few and all were good cops.)

Rules for Thee....

Wrong message there Chief:

• We all know how Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns crew advocates relentlessly for gun control for the little people. Yet these same mayors keep getting popped for—you guessed it—illegally possessing guns? Well, hold their beer, because the University of New Hampshire just dropped a sequel. You can’t make this stuff up.

  Enter Steven Lee, the 50-year-old Chief of Police at the University of New Hampshire. He recently testified that college students absolutely shouldn’t be trusted with guns on campus. Reason? “They’re too drunk,” he said.  The gun control advocate, using his professional position as Chief of Police — advocating that New Hampshire protect the kids by keeping them disarmed.  Assume they’re constantly intoxicated and irresponsible.

  Fast-forward to present day: Chief Lee — badge, gun, and all — was pulled over in Portsmouth at almost 1 a.m.  (Pro-tip for the chief: nothing good happens after midnight.) Chief Steven Lee was (allegedly) hammered enough to earn himself a pair of shiny bracelets and a DUI charge. He’s now on paid administrative leave (because of course it’s paid), has plead not guilty, and a trial set for March.

We'd expect nothing less from a "chief" of a university police force.

Good News on Two Fronts

So Police are still allowed to shoot people attempting to commit murder:

• Chicago police officers who fatally shot a man as he stabbed a victim in the middle of a busy West Side street in May 2024 have been cleared of wrongdoing, according to documents released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.

  The incident occurred late on May 27, 2024, in the 300 block of South Cicero Avenue, where Tracey Watson, 35, was shot and killed by officers as he stood over a victim making stabbing motions.

  According to COPA’s findings, a witness flagged down two officers to report that Watson was chasing their friend with a knife. The officers spotted the men nearby and attempted to engage them. From their patrol car, one officer ordered Watson to drop his knife, but Watson ignored the command and continued advancing toward the victim, COPA concluded.

  As officers stood nearby, the victim fell to the pavement, attempting to protect himself while Watson stood over him making stabbing motions. The officers “verbally directed [Watson] to drop the knife several times, and [Watson] failed to do so,” COPA said in a written summary report.

And an actual miracle - cops aren't responsible for gravity killing uncoordinated morons!

• A Chicago police officer has been cleared of wrongdoing in a foot chase that ended with the pursued man falling, suffering a fatal head injury, and later dying in June 2024, according to a newly released report.

  Community activists rallied around the death of 22-year-old David Curry, with Black Lives Matter Chicago labeling the incident a “police crime” and saying Curry’s life was “cut short” as he “ran for his life.” But documents released Thursday night by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability show the agency found that the officer involved did not violate department policy.

  [...] One officer got out of the squad car to chase Curry on foot. COPA said Curry continued running, turned, and collided with the cop. The force sent him falling backward, and he struck his head on what investigators described as an uneven concrete slab. The officer told COPA that his hands were raised in front of him to grab Curry’s shirt when Curry suddenly turned, causing the collision. Investigators said video evidence and other information supported the officer’s account.

Good thing no one had to call Use of Force "expert" Larritorious.

Reviewing E.M.?

This should have been done years ago:

• Cook County’s new chief judge on Wednesday announced sweeping changes to his office’s electronic monitoring (EM) programs, requiring all major violations to be reported to judges within 24 hours and lowering the threshold for what constitutes a major violation from 48 hours of unauthorized absence to just three hours.

  The updated protocols represent Chief Judge Charles S. Beach II’s first major policy initiative since taking office on December 2 amid intense criticism of the court’s handling of electronic monitoring.

This follows a series of near-constant bail provision violations that never result in anyone being taken back into custody. 

These violations undermine any remaining trust in the system and reflects badly on democrats facing re-election as they are the only party in power in Chicago and Cook County.

It also provides endless fodder for alternative media sites to run pictures like this:

Judge Gonzalez doesn't like this and neither does Prickwrinkle. Beach is running interference for a corrupt judiciary.

Rahm's Own "Code of Silence"

After spouting off about something he made up on the spot and had zero proof that it ever existed, the 9.5-Digit Midget gets his own shot at the politicians "Code of Silence:"

• A federal judge reversed course Friday and barred former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel from being called as a witness in an upcoming civil trial over alleged police misconduct.

  U.S. District Judge John Tharp changed his mind two days after telling lawyers Emanuel “put himself in play” with a December 2015 speech acknowledging a code of silence at the Chicago Police Department.

  The new ruling followed a flurry of court filings earlier in the day, in which each side pointed fingers at each other as Emanuel’s potential testimony drew nearer. The legal dust-up came as Emanuel, a Democrat, seems to be positioning himself for a presidential run in 2028.

This of course, occurred following the Van Dyke shooting and Rahm's efforts to hide, restrict and deny video evidence that led to the "16 shots and a cover-up" chants that made his last political run a non-starter.

It will also come up prominently should he try to run for the top office, dooming him to yet another ambassadorship somewhere down the line. 

Durbin the Moron

Years ago, he called US Troops "nazis" and never apologized. 

Then he was tied to the Capitol Hill baseball game shooter and never adequately explained that connection.

This time, he's on the floor of the Senate, misrepresenting Law Enforcement operations in Minnesota in an effort to keep ILLEGAL ALIENS in the country. Then he pulls the stupidest move we've seen in years:

• Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) displayed a poster of an AI-generated image falsely depicting the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti — in which one AI-created federal agent is clearly missing a head — while delivering remarks on the Senate floor.

Here's Dick on the Senate floor:

Here's a better look at the picture he's using to condemn law enforcement:

 

Anyone know where the Border Patrol agent's head is? Because it sure looks like the "nurse" probably just chopped it off, meaning the shots fired were completely justifiable, not to mention deserved - someone chops off a head, they're getting every shot we can dish out.

And not a single media outlet in Chicago is mentioning that the senior senator from Illinois, a "man" within the line of succession to the Presidency, is using fake A.I. generated slop in his official capacity, to advocate for open borders, zero immigration restrictions and dissolution of the national identity.

Maybe Rahm is onto something.

Maybe Zeke is, too. 

Kept in Jail?

How does DuPage manage to keep violent offenders in custody?

• The 19-year-old Westmont man charged with murdering a 30-year-old pregnant woman in Downers Grove on Monday will remain in custody as he awaits trail.

  DuPage County Judge Joshua Dieden denied pretrial release for Nedas Revuckas during a hearing Thursday morning. Revuckas is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing Eliza Morales 70 times, mostly in the head and neck, and then setting her apartment on fire over an online sale gone wrong, according to prosecutors. Eliza, who was five months pregnant, leaves behind her husband and toddler, both of whom were not home at the time of the incident.

It's not like the offender was a habitual criminal:

• Revuckas has no prior criminal background, worked as a painter and complied with police. But Dieden said that if he was released and placed on home confinement, the entire community would be in danger.

But somehow, they managed to keep him in jail.

It's odd to say the least. 

Medical "Professionals"

Some lib-tard infiltrated our comment section whining about how the dead nurse up in Minnesota deserved our sympathy and ICE deserved our condemnation because he "treated veterans at the VA."

First up, fuck off.

Second, explain this:

• Alex Pretti was thrown to the ground by federal agents while protesting an immigration operation in Minneapolis 11 days before he was fatally shot by Border Patrol officers, new videos show.

  In one video of the Jan. 13 incident posted online Wednesday, Pretti is seen shouting and spitting at an unmarked SUV with flashing lights. As the vehicle begins to move away, he kicks out one of its taillights. A federal agent wearing a gas mask and helmet emerges from the rear passenger seat, grabs Pretti and throws him to the ground. Other federal agents join and try to subdue him.

  Pretti’s jacket comes off during a scuffle, and when he gets up, a handgun is visible in his waistband. At no point in the footage does he reach for his gun.

So he previously attacked agents....WHILE ARMED....and wasn't shot. But his luck ran out the second time. We're supposed to what? Support committing felonies on multiple occasions while armed? Are you fucking nuts?

And after the incident in New York with hospital staff refusing to treat NYPD Detectives because they might have been ICE, this started appearing in our search results:

• The nurse who wished White House Press Secretary to suffer a severe 4th degree tear during childbirth has been fired.

• A male nurse in Florida will likely lose his job after posting that he will refuse to treat supporters of President Trump. On Sunday, an anesthesiologist named Erik Martindale sparked a social media uproar after posting on his Facebook account that he would let MAGA supporters suffer and refuse to perform any anesthesia on MAGA clients.

• A nurse at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health has been fired after making a series of videos suggesting ways to harm ICE agents. [...] "Sabotage tactic, or at least scare tactic. All the medical providers, grab some syringes with needles on the end," she said. "Have them full of saline or succinylcholine, you know, whatever. Whatever. That will probably be a deterrent. Be safe."

And this article covering a series of events where medical "professionals" are basing medical decisions on politics rather than the Hippocratic Oath.

Dark times ahead, meaning disengagement (so you don't have to risk being "treated" by someone who would harm you) is now a requirement of the job.

So....Why?

What exactly was the point for losing your job and facing prison?

• A Chicago police officer is accused of accepting cash payments in exchange for lending out his department-issued encrypted radio, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Tuesday. Alain M. Dillon, 37, faces multiple counts of bribery and official misconduct.

  Dillon took multiple $500 payments from an unidentified person in exchange for personal access to Dillon’s CPD-issued radio, Raoul said, without saying who used the radio or for what purpose.

Was he letting these persons listen to the radio? Like tow truck operators?

Was he letting them run plates over the air to out rivals?

Were there Search Warrants being executed somewhere?

These weren't terrorists, were they?

So....what and why? 

Retiree Pension Election

So after the retired rep passed, there's a spot open on the Board. There are two names on the ballot:

• Saul Del Rivero
• Eugene Roy - former exempt

We have received no campaign literature for either.

We don't know Del Rivero.

We only know Roy from his extramarital fling with a subordinate at his vacation home where the wife caught him in flagrante delicto which resulted in quite the scandal at the time. The subordinate later made sergeant somehow....maybe it was a secret study group?

Who's qualified? Who has our best interests in mind? 

 

CCL for the Win

Sadly, he only wounded one of the offenders:

• A licensed concealed carry holder shot an armed man who tried to rob him early Tuesday morning on the Northwest Side, according to Chicago police, and officers tracked one of the suspects to his home by following a trail of blood.

  It happened around 2:40 a.m. in the 5200 block of West Montana Street, police said.

  Officers responded to calls of shots fired and learned that a 39-year-old man was exiting his vehicle when two men approached him on foot, police said. One of those men pulled out a firearm and demanded the victim’s belongings, according to CPD.

  The victim, who is licensed to carry a concealed firearm, drew his own gun and fired shots at the would-be robbers, police said. One of the suspects was struck multiple times in the legs, according to police.

Better luck next time Citizen!

Pay Your Fines Stacy

For someone who whines about millionaires and billionaires not paying their "fair share," how about just paying what you're supposed to?

• As president of both the Chicago Teachers Union and Illinois Federation of Teachers, Stacy Davis Gates wants government to take more from Chicagoans and businesses.

  But despite making $273,105 as a union boss, she apparently doesn’t believe government should take from her.

  Davis Gates has let $1,544 in Chicago water, sewer and trash bills pile up, according to the city’s Freedom of Information Act response from Dec. 16. She also owes the city $1,843 for parking tickets and speed violations.

We never made close to $273K, but you can bet on the few occasions we got a speeding ticket or a red light camera ticket, we paid it as soon as it arrived, because (A) we were likely ion the wrong and (B) there were job-related penalties if we ended up on that delinquent list.

Between the fines she and Conehead owe, Chicago might have had a balanced budget.

Shooting Update

The Police shooting the other day seems like a domestic gone crazy:

• Prosecutors have charged a paroled six-time felon with shooting a woman inside a South Side apartment and then trying to shoot the Chicago police officers who chased him into an alley, an encounter that ended with officers returning fire and seriously wounding the suspect. No officers were injured.

  Pierre Davis, 28, was taken into custody Friday night in the 7900 block of South Ingleside Avenue. Chicago police said no officers were physically injured. A 22-year-old woman who was shot earlier inside a nearby residence was hospitalized in good condition.

So offender shoots female, flees, is chased, and then exchanges gunfire with the Police.

How did a six-time felon get a gun anyway? We thought Porkulous made that impossible....and Conehead....and Crimesha....and Groot....and Rahm....and Shortshanks....and....

But they'll make every effort to take away your guns. 

Still A Murder a Day

Via HeyJackass.com:

 

Kind of surprising with the freezing temps and amount of snow.

But one-a-day would still be a drop over the course of a year.

Not very likely though. 

Known Offender

Seems the Minnesota attacker had a habit of interfering with Law Enforcement:

• Democrats want you to believe that Alex Pretti, the man who died during a violent clash with Border Patrol in Minneapolis, was an innocent legal observer with a heart of gold. It turns out that Pretti’s armed assault that resulted in his death was not his first illegal interference with federal immigration officers.

  The underlying issue here is that Democrats have encouraged their activists to believe that they can commit any amount of violence and dangerous illegal behavior without any real consequences. The leftist activists deliberately endangering the lives of federal immigration officers on the streets, and fueling an 8,000% increase in death threats and a 1,347% increase in assaults, see themselves as heroes for their violence. Yet they also melt down anytime that violence backfires on them. Alex Pretti committed a felony and threatened officers with deadly violence one too many times. He fell for Democrat lies and it cost him his life.

The felony he was committing?

• 18 U.S. Code § 111 -  (a) In General.—Whoever—
  (1) forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties; or
  (2) forcibly assaults or intimidates any person who formerly served as a person designated in section 1114 on account of the performance of official duties during such person’s term of service,
  shall, where the acts in violation of this section constitute only simple assault, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, and where such acts involve physical contact with the victim of that assault or the intent to commit another felony, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.

Committing a crime while armed pretty much negates the "he was allowed to carry a weapon" argument, because the minute you cross that line, the "allowed" falls by the wayside. Not to mention he wasn't carrying ID, which is a required component of Minnesota Law.

We could argue and counter-argue forever on this one. Was it unfortunate that someone chose to break the law? Yep, but he was an adult making bad decisions. Two-thirds of all assaults on Federal Officers care coming from nine cities - all blue state, blue city shitholes:

How about turning over all ILLEGAL ALIENS currently in state custody to the feds for immigration and deportation hearings and the feds wouldn't have to be in neighborhoods hunting for criminal ILLEGAL ALIENS. Texas has turned over more ILLEGAL ALIENS than all of these cities combined and the only assault was couple leftists attempting assassinate federal officers, accidentally killing a couple ILLEGAL ALIENS in the process.

In the meantime:

Residency Decision?

We get emails every so often:

• I'm not sure if this has been addressed, but I came across something recently that I thought that you and the troops may be interested in regarding residency.

  There is an interesting police board ruling from August 2025 where the Superintendent requested that an officer be terminated for living in the suburbs. BIA spent " 180 hours and 63 covert surveillance sorties of six to eight officers in covert vehicles" to prove that the officer was living in the suburbs and not residing in his Chicago residence. The police board found the officer not guilty due to the legal definition of residency. The board stated, " All officers and employees of the city shall be actual residents of the city.” “Residency” is not defined by any rule or statute. Residency is a nuanced determination set out in case law. It is important to note that establishing residency and abandoning residency are two different propositions having differing requirements of proof."

  The board goes ahead to site Maksym et al. v. Board of Election Commissioners of the City of Chicago et al as the case law:

  First, to establish residency, two elements are required: (1) physical presence, and (2) an intent to remain in that place as a permanent home [citations omitted]. Second, once residency is established, the test is no longer physical presence but rather abandonment. Indeed, once a person has established residence, he or she can be physically absent from that residence for months or even years without having abandoned it[.] Maksym et al. v. Board of Election Commissioners of the City of Chicago et al, 242 Ill.2d 303 at 319 (2011), quoting Kreitz v. Behrensmeyer, 125 Ill. 141, 195 (1888). (All emphasis in the original.) (Maksym’s continued reference to short absences is irrelevant to Respondent’s case.)

  (This case is actually Rahm Emmanuel's case to remain on the ballot after he was accused of not actually residing in Chicago.)

  We were all told when we joined the department that we must actually have to continually reside in a Chicago residence or be terminated. With this Supreme Court definition, if you initially establish your residence in Chicago, it would appear that you could then leave your residence for an extended period of time without having "abandoned" it. If you continue to pay a mortgage/rent, utilities, upkeep, etc on your Chicago residence while not physically being there, it would appear that you are in compliance as a resident.

  I am curious how this can play our for future incidences of officers spending extended amounts of time away from their Chicago residence or for those who have already been terminated.

Read the decision at this link here.

Anyone who has been around a few years can name at least three exempts who lived outside city limits, but no investigation was ever undertaken because of political clout. We can name at least as many aldercreatures who maintain residences in multiple jurisdictions and split time among them all. Not to mention someone who (if rumors are to be believed) currently lives in Lombard where his son and namesake plays basketball for a suburban high school. 

But hey, these are all rumors. 

Another Dumb Idea

Illinois.

Springfield.

Democrats.

All kinds of stupid - this bill is so poorly written:

• HB-3320 would force gun manufacturers to pay fees to help cover the medical bills, rent, court costs, etc of violent criminals if they get shot by a lawful gun owner —while committing a crime!

  That’s how Pritzker wants to ‘undo the effects of gun violence’ — by making gun manufacturers pay violent criminals if they get shot while committing a crime!

If a completely legal product sold in a completely legal manner is used legally....and said product functions properly and as designed, then there shouldn't be extraneous fees, fines or penalties attached to said product. 

There's a petition to sign electronically to express your displeasure with said bill, but we all know Springfield routinely ignores these. 

And if they don't ignore it, they merely do a "gut-and-replace" on some other piece of legislative bullshit like Fata$$ did with that other gun bill that was passed out of committee as an insurance bill after meeting all of the "open meeting" requirements, then had 100% of the language stricken and replaced with anti-gun legislation which was then passed in the dead of night.

Links here and here. 

Bunches of Hypocrites

There's a bill Porkulous signed last month to conceal information about government officials:

• Amid growing national fears about politically motivated violence and threats, Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly last fall to pass a sweeping statute allowing public officials to shield their personal information from public view.

  But the new law — signed last month by Gov. JB Pritzker — also erects a barrier between citizens and records long considered essential to democratic accountability, including marital status and basic information about whether lawmakers, county clerks and other officials actually live in the districts and communities they serve.

What else do they want to conceal?

• Under the law, government agencies, businesses and private individuals must redact and refrain from sharing the personal information of many current and former public officials upon request, though notably not those seeking office. Home addresses, phone numbers, personal email addresses and even marital status can all be removed from public view at the official’s discretion. The statute makes no explicit exception for journalism or political speech and applies retroactively, allowing officials to demand the removal of previously published material.

  Questions as basic as whether an elected official meets residency requirements — a cornerstone of representative government — could become legally fraught to investigate or publish.

And guess what else they're whining about?

• Democratic Rep. Katie Stuart of Edwardsville, the chief House sponsor of the law, said the legislation was modeled after a 2012 measure that allows judges to request the shielding of their personal information. That law was enacted after the 2005 killings of the husband and mother of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow by a disgruntled litigant. Stuart said the measure reflects a sobering escalation in political hostility and violence.

  “Our spouses, our children, our loved ones deserve to be protected and not be put at risk,” Stuart said. “And really, nobody needs their life at risk to do the job of serving the public.”

Gee, you mean like Federal Officers wearing masks so as not to be doxxed? That's going on right now....including threats to Officers' spouses, children, schools that their kids go to, etc.

But politicians - especially democrats - are our betters, so they deserve complete secrecy while outing everyone else? 

Another Slum Times "Error"

The other day, we wrote about the Slum Times attributing nine shooting deaths and one stabbing death to being "police related." We poked fun at them and CWB picked up on it, asking for explanations.

The Slum Times blamed a programming bug and said they had corrected it. Their "Homicide Tracker" site notes the corrections and also blames it on a programming "bug." An editor also appeared in our comment section, thanking us for discovering the error and noting they had corrected the issue:

• Thank you for flagging this problem with the Sun-Times violence tracker. Due to a bug in the tracker, some homicides were incorrectly described as having police involvement. The bug was fixed this morning. — Ari Soglin, Interim managing editor-news

  1/22/2026 12:48:00 PM

Hooray for accountability, right?

Not so fast - it seems this "error" appears other times, at least once that CWB discovered and tipped us off to. Here's one from October of 2025 (click for larger version):

First thing you should notice is TWO separate guys named Oman Cobbs, 48, appear to have been murdered on the same day. The second one is listed as a "police shooting." If you click on the link, you find this story:

• The October death of a 48-year-old man found in a suitcase on the Southwest Side was shot to death in a homicide, officials said.

  Around 11:55 a.m. on Oct. 17, officers responded to the 3300 block of South Kedzie Avenue near the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Chicago police said.

  There, officers located a green suitcase and inside it found a “badly decomposed” body of Omar S. Cobbs, according to police reports and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

So the Slum Times summary is that not only are Chicago Police killing individuals across the city, afterwards they're stuffing them into suitcases? We must have missed that lesson back in our training days and we don't recall anything like this in the e-learning modules before we retired. Is this a Consent Decree thing?

We'd hate to think the media was so incompetent at their jobs (and their editors so ignorant as to what was being published) that this happened regularly. Oh wait, we already think that and - once again - this proves it. 

Same Judge Again

Eight arrests in six months, and out because of the SAFE-T Act and a useless judge:

• A 37-year-old woman has been arrested for the eighth time in six months for carrying out a string of unprovoked, random attacks on the West Side while she was AWOL from a separate battery case.

  Prosecutors say Diamond Miller was in AWOL status from a pending misdemeanor battery case when she allegedly attacked three people within minutes near Pulaski Road and Cermak Road around noon on December 21.

You mean she didn't show up at court? Again? Why was she out?

• Records show that Miller failed to appear in court on a pending misdemeanor battery charge on December 2. Rather than issue a warrant, Judge Peter Gonzalez ordered the court clerk to send Miller a postcard reminding her of her court dates, according to court records.

Judge Peter Gonzalez? Why does that name sound familiar?

• A Cook County judge remarked that a man with a history of randomly and violently attacking strangers “seems to be expending a lot of energy getting into violent incidents allegedly” and that it “seems like we have a little anger management issue” before deciding to release the man on electronic monitoring rather than keep him in jail. Three days later, prosecutors say, that same man went on a violent spree in the Loop, punching three women in the face while he was supposed to be home on an ankle monitor.

  [...] 

  Gonzalez acknowledged concerns about Miller’s behavior during that exchange, telling the lawyers that Miller “seems to be expending a lot of energy getting into violent incidents allegedly,” and adding, “Seems like we have a little anger management issue.”

  Despite those comments, Gonzalez declined to detain Miller on the pending case.

Ah yes, the "Loop Puncher" judge, stating [in effect] that he knows this asshole is a piece of shit, doesn't follow court directives, has "issues" ....AND STILL RELEASES HIM TO ATTACK MORE PEOPLE!

This judge:

 

Probably a DEI hire. Definitely a political hack. 

Remember this name come election season - "Judge" Peter Gonzalez, friend to violent criminals.

Willie Sutton Lives On

We don't know if these people (or folks) know their history, but it isn't difficult to figure out:

• Nearly a century ago, serial robber Willie Sutton reportedly explained why he was sticking up banks by saying wryly: “Because that’s where the money is.”

  These days, crooks in the Chicago area seem to be centering on a new source of cash: establishments offering video gambling. The Illinois Gaming Board recently confirmed what many in the industry already knew: 2025 saw an explosion of crime, with more than $2.7 million stolen during 473 burglaries at those types of businesses last year.

  Nearly half of those burglaries — 219 — occurred between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31.

  There have been at least 40 since Jan. 1.

What always surprises us (unless they just aren't reporting it) is the lack of burglaries or takeover robberies of weed dispensaries. That's a business with a TON of cash on hand, and due to banking regulations regarding drug transactions, much of it can't be deposited properly or in a timely manner.

When we begin our villain character arc, we know exactly where we're starting. 

Don't tell Batman.

Detective Exam Assist

From our email:

• I’m a CPD detective currently on the job. I wanted to pass along a study resource I recently put together for officers preparing for the Detective Promotional Exam, in case you think it’s worth mentioning.

  The site is 10-1 Academy (tenoneacademy.com). It’s a policy-based prep program built around CPD directives and how the Detective exam is actually tested. I built it based on real investigative work and exam experience, not test-prep gimmicks, and kept the cost intentionally low so it’s accessible.

  This isn’t an official CPD program and it’s not endorsed by the Department. It’s just an independent project I built for other officers who want a structured way to prepare.

We found some of these courses helpful, some not as helpful, back when we were taking exams. Every bit of info helps, so do with it what you will.

Comments closed here - informational post only. 

Is There a Lawyer in the House?

Imagine the outrage of denying service to people based on race....then remember, liberals and democrats  already do it based on religion, political affiliation and what your job might be:

• New York City Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch is demanding that a Brooklyn hospital retrain all of its staff after emergency room personnel mistreated NYPD officers whom they mistook for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. The hospital said it “regret[s]” the conduct.

  Several NYPD detectives were “met with rudeness, disrespect, and a lack of basic professional courtesy” at the Home Depot Emergency Department at New York University Langone Health—Cobble Hill last week, according to the NYC Detectives’ Endowment Association. The staff initially mistook the officers for federal immigration officers and suggested they go somewhere else for treatment, according to multiple reports.

We've run across dozens of stories during our career where hospital staff were overly rude and unprofessional to on-duty cops who had either been injured or were escorting prisoners who had been injured, usually during the course of resisting arrest or attacking Officers. A few times, we experienced medical staff attempting to dictate how custody of prisoners was undertaken, none of which ended well for those attempting to cite "medical authority" over actual Law.

If we're going to go down this road - denying medical care to Law Enforcement over political differences - then we see a lot of referrals to medical licensing boards, examining hospital certifications and lawsuits with punitive damages attached for medical malpractice. 

We'd suggest the FOP start looking into a few pro-Police law firms willing to take on hospitals - they're loaded with tax money, grant money and insurance money.

Jolly Olde England (or Scotland)

Imagine this....and you don't have a gun:

• A man who chased a police officer with a chainsaw in an attempt to murder him has been jailed for 10 years.

  Liridon Kastrati, 32, was found guilty in November of the attempted murder of PC Gary Cowan following a trial at the High Court in Paisley.

  The daylight attack occurred on 6 May 2024 in the Renfrewshire town after a Volkswagen car being driven by Kastrati, an Albanian national, crashed into a police vehicle.

  PC Cowan told the court he initially approached Kastrati with the intention of arresting him, but then found himself running for his life after the attacker returned to the car, grabbed a chainsaw, started it up and began to sprint after him while shouting "f*** the police".

As we understand, most cops in Great Britain still don't carry sidearms.

This is what liberals here dream of. 

Term Limits? Age Limts?

Good idea from a moron:

• Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said this week that he wants a mandatory retirement age of 75 for people running the federal government.

  Emanuel made the comments at two events in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday — a conversation with reporters hosted by The Christian Science Monitor, and an event primarily focused on education policy hosted by the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank.

  The former mayor, 66, said rule should apply to all three branches of the federal government — including the president, members of Congress, and all judges.

  Emanuel said he would include the rule as part of a greater effort toward ethics reform.

There ought to be term limits and mandatory retirements across the board for all manner of political animal. For far too long, these leeches build power and then shut out people with newer and (sometimes) better ideas.

In fact, there ought to be a limit to years of "public service" altogether that would shut out Rahm immediately - aside from World's Clumsiest Deli Slicer, he's never held a real job in his life that wasn't attached to politics, so his meter ran out years ago. 

At least he isn't suggesting what his brother did and start killing old people once they hit seventy-five, though we'd make a few exceptions.

No Remote Learning?

Schools were closed Friday because the teachers wanted another paid holiday. 

No mentions of "remote learning" so kids didn't fall behind.

About that....

How many millions were spent just a couple years ago for computers and software so that teachers could have almost two-years of off-site work, teaching remotely while test scores plummeted and social skills were destroyed? And what ever happened to all those computers? 

It gets a little chilly and all that "global plandemic prep work"  isn't up to handle a single day of sub-zero temps?

Makes us wonder. 

Great Idea!

We wish we had thought of this one:

• ...we have a pretty huge update and confession about this whole "Report ICE activity hotline" situation.

  By about 1am, we had reports come in from numerous states that there had been "incidents" at a number of biker bars last night.

  It turns out that "report ICE activity hotlines" had received "tips" about "off-duty ICE agents" drinking at dozens of bars. Those bars just so happened to be biker bars owned or frequented by individuals who haven't always been on the right side of the law.

  ICE protestors were alerted and given the addresses of these bars. According to friends of ours across the country, beta soy boy, gender-fluid communist Meal Team Sixers showed up with their "F-ICE" flags and tried barging into the bars. Except... there were no ICE agents drinking there. As a wise man once said... "now you's can't leave".

Unfortunately, we can't find any actual news coverage of these incidents (yet) leading us to believe it's a work of fiction....which is too bad because it would be hilarious to say the least.

Shooting

Southside:

• Injuries were reported in a Chicago police-involved shooting Friday evening on the city's South Side, sources told ABC7.

  The shooting happened at at East 79th Street and South Ingleside Avenue in Grand Crossing.

  The block was filled with officers from corner to corner Friday night. Chicago police confirmed that it was a shooting involving police.

Two persons turned up shot, but at the moment, only one appears to have been shot by the Police. 

Not a good night to be standing around outside. Try to keep warm and let readers know if more info becomes available.

Pension Troubles?

Of course, the pension is always in trouble - it's run by democrats and their appointees, in a blue-state-blue-city shithole where promises are made and broken on a daily (Daley?) basis:

• The alternative city budget muscled through the City Council over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s objections required the city to make the full $260 million advance pension payment to stave off another costly reduction in Chicago’s bond rating.

  Late last week, the Johnson administration ignored that mandate and made a half-payment of $130 million and promised to pay the other half later this year.

  Now, the renegade group of 32 alderpersons who rejected Johnson’s corporate head tax and seized control of a budget process are demanding to know why.

What do you call someone who defies the legislative body representing Chicagoans? Isn't that some sort of "king" or "dick-taker" or "asshole"?

That 6% is looking worse day by day. 

Good Weekend Read

Sometimes you have to take your time and direct your attention to a longer written article that really gets into the meat of an issue. 

This Contrarian article is one of them:

• 2025 was another banner year for Chicago media. Over the past year, what news consumers experienced in Chicago was more overt political bias in ostensibly neutral news media. Business as usual for Chicago’s print, television, radio, and digital media figures, in 2025, reporters continued to demonstrate their utter intolerance with opposing views and became less trusted to separate fact from fiction in the delivery of the news. 

  Whether it was covering up or whitewashing Mayor Brandon Johnson’s incompetence and mammoth failures as mayor or throwing a tantrum at Department of Homeland Security agencies enforcing immigration law in Chicago, in 2025, Chicago media confirmed their intent to serve as a protective chrysalis for politicians and groups they favor. 

  It was once a non-negotiable duty to maintain a strict pose of neutrality in the reporting of the news. However, instead of asking questions and learning a story, media figures in Chicago persist in their habit of creating news. With Chicago media simply disinclined to fulfill the core journalistic duty of telling the truth or holding powerful people accountable for their actions, contributors to Contrarian have collected some of the most egregious examples of biased journalism in Chicago for 2025. While some reporters profiled here are regulars, in this installment of “Worst in Chicago Media,” there are some new arrivals, including our worst journalist for the year. 

The Contrarian starts there, and then names names along with cited examples of the worst of Chicago "reporters" and their so-called "reporting."

Media trust is at an all-time low across the country and the Chicago media is doing their part to demonstrate that just when you think they're at rock-bottom, they find a shovel and start digging a basement.

Go read it all - it's good. 

HQ Was Closed....for Cold?

We can close down the Department for cold weather?

• I just wanted to send u this info in case u haven’t already seen it. This definitely deserves a post on its own. 
  
  
  35th and Michigan closed [Friday] for inclement weather ? Is this a fuckin joke ?! 
  
  
  Dozens maybe hundreds of officers with under 5 years on the job getting a day off because they can’t “work” in the cold ?! Going from their take home cars to the building is too rough ?
  
  So they get a free day off but patrol has to go to work and has to actually be on the street not in some cubicle nice and warm ??
  
  
  What about officers who want to clear from the medical tomorrow they won’t be able to ? Do they get that day credited to them ? Doctors note or not ? Do we all get a 8.5 day credit if we don’t come to work ?? This should be news worthy especially since Johnson said he was cutting CPD spending ? Who made this decision ? I’m assuming this will definitely be a grievance with the FOP. Please post and bring attention to this BS

Did this actually come to pass??

We wish we could have closed the Districts back in the day. 

UPDATE: At least part of it was closed (click for larger version):

So if the OPSA was closed, did everyone have to burn 8.5 hours? 

Any of our FOIA wizards want to start requesting the Time and Attendance Sheets for Friday? 

UPDATE: It was the civilian side?

UPDATE: Get a load of Cook County:

• Think that’s ridiculous? That morning we had an out of state warrant brought to Maywood. After getting there, Maywood despite having a room full of deputies, said it was a last minute decision to “close all the courthouses because of the cold,” and said out of state warrants had to go to 26. Apparently it was too cold for all the normal courthouses but at 26 the temp was manageable. County didn’t decide to say boo to anyone so everyone who went to Maywood that morning, had to re-direct to 26. Who would’ve thought that jobs in the Law Enforcement field have “bad weather days.”

What's next? The Post Office?