Second City Cop

Labels: crime, stats

• Rahm claimed that 15,000 people signed up for the latest police test, touting minority outreach and recruitment;
• Final tally? Only 7,437 tests were graded.

• around 60% pass (down to 4462)
• half of that total don't bother with any further testing (2231)
• 25% fail background and drug testing (1673)

Labels: department issues

• 2017-0606001 Kennedy, Keanna K 07/12/1985
  BK Female 505 212
  Booked Date 06/06/2017 DIV17-SFFP-SFFP-General
  *NO BOND*
  Charges
  720 ILCS 5/9-1(a)(1)
  MURDER/INTENT TO KILL/INJURE
  
  Next Court Date Court House Location
  06/26/2017 Markham
  Markham
  
  Isn't SFFP the furlough program aka EM? I may be wrong because I don't work for the county.

Labels: county

Labels: sarcasm AND silliness

• A judge ruled Wednesday that statements Chicago Officer Jason Van Dyke made to a detective investigating the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald could be used against him at trial.
  
  For the first time, Van Dyke, 39, took the stand. He testified for 45 minutes during a pre-trial hearing at Cook County courthouse that aimed to determine whether comments he made to Det. David March and Cmdr. David McNaughton, both retired, could be used.
  
  Both March and McNaughton were granted limited immunity for their testimony, which cannot be used against them in any other legal proceeding.
  
  The judge determined that comments to March, who was indicted Tuesday with two other officers for obstructing the McDonald investigation, could be admissible, but ruled against comments made to McNaughton.

Labels: info for the police

• Baltimore's police union expressed their frustration on Wednesday that the city doesn't have a plan to crack down on crime.
  
  The Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) issued a release that unleashed searing criticism toward the city for not really doing anything after FOP warned about the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) being "critically understaffed" as crime soared in the city.
  
  "In reaction to this surge in violence, and in particular the recent six homicides in a 24-hour period, Police Commissioner Kevin Davis cancelled leave and placed our officers on 12 hours of duty in order to stem the violence," the release stated. "This, however, is merely a stopgap measure and not a long-term plan of action, a plan to fight crime that the Baltimore Police Department still doesn't have in place."
  
  The release added that stretching out the understaffed police's hours has caused the officers to be "fatigued and morale continues to decline."

Labels: out-of-state

• "Take a close look at the Inspector General's report. On one hand, the report cites the fact that officers are accumulating comp time, something that costs the City too much, he argues. But at the same time, officers throughout the City complain they can never get time off."

Labels: department issues, FOP

• Chicago City Wire recently published a story projecting that the pension fund for Chicago police would run dry in several years, absent new taxpayer subsidies.
  
  Reacting to the story, a police union representative reportedly sent an email to union members that included "This is not true. Current actuarial projections prepared for the pension fund do not include a time at which the fund has depleted all assets. The media failed to mention that Illinois law mandates that the pension be funded at 90 percent by the year 2055."
  
  Let’s take a look at some of those actuarial projections, shall we?

Labels: pension

Labels: FOP

Labels: sarcasm AND silliness

• One cop I know had a gambling problem. We would not let him handle money for the golf outing ’cause it wouldn’t turn out right. We didn’t want him on a search warrant. If we did, we had to fucking hold the money ourselves. So, yeah, I was actually surprised they made him a commander.

Labels: media

• In a historic move sure to be watched nationwide, three current or former Chicago Police officers are facing criminal charges in an alleged cover-up to protect Officer Jason Van Dyke, who fatally shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
  
  Special prosecutor Patricia Brown Holmes on Tuesday announced a three-count grand jury indictment charging patrol officers Joseph Walsh and Thomas Gaffney and detective David March with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and official misconduct.
  
  Holmes accused the trio of allegedly filing false accounts of the October 2014 shooting to keep Van Dyke from being accused of any wrongdoing. She also said the three failed to interview witnesses who might have contradicted their faulty version of events.

• ...the three failed to interview witnesses who might have contradicted their faulty version of events.

Labels: we got nothing

• A high-speed collision that killed an off-duty Chicago cop and a woman on the West Side began when police tried to pull over the officer's Jeep because it resembled one that had been involved in a carjacking, authorities said.
  
  Officers in an unmarked police car tried to stop the off-duty officer around 1 a.m. Tuesday at Roosevelt Road and Independence Boulevard, according to chief police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. But the off-duty officer fled and collided with a car at Roosevelt and Kostner Avenue, less than a mile away.
  
  The officer's SUV rolled on its side, and the other car was crushed by the impact. Both the officer and the woman driving the other car were killed.

Labels: officer down, we got nothing

• Six months after President Donald Trump threatened to "send in the feds" to combat gun and gang violence in Chicago, the city is finally getting new federal crime-fighting resources, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Monday.
  
  Emanuel, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson announced that the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had deployed a high-tech van in Chicago that can immediately test guns and shell casings at crime scenes throughout the city, according to a statement from the mayor's office.
  
  "I'm glad the feds have arrived," Durbin said at the press conference at the Deering police district headquarters.
  
  The van first hit Chicago's streets three weeks ago, and is scheduled to remain in the city until the end of July — but Emanuel, Johnson and Durbin said they would ask Attorney General Jeff Sessions to allow the van to stay until Labor Day.

Labels: dumb ideas

• The family of an Uber driver who was hacked to death while on the job has sued Walmart, where authorities said the driver's teenage attacker stole weapons — a machete and knife — moments before the killing.
  
  Grant Nelson's family filed suit in Cook County court Monday against Walmart and two companies that handled security for the retailer's Skokie store. Authorities allege that 16-year-old Eliza Wasni stole the machete and the knife from a Walmart about 3 a.m. May 30, then got into Nelson's car and hacked and stabbed him to death moments into the ride.
  
  The wrongful death lawsuit said Walmart's security contractors were negligent because they failed to stop Wasni, question her or ask her to show a receipt as she allegedly left the store carrying the weapons.
  
  According to the lawsuit, two Walmart employees or contractors were standing immediately in front of the door as Wasni exited, passing within feet of them.
  
  Walmart said in a statement that its associates "acted properly."

Labels: crime, we got nothing

• The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 7, the Chicago Police Department union, responded to projections estimating the Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago will require a taxpayer bailout to pay for retiree benefits in four years.
  
  Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which owns this publication, released estimations that the police pension fund will experience a major loss in funding by the beginning of 2021 because of higher wages and promises of higher pensions.
  
  "The lodge has received many inquiries regarding the status of the pension fund in response to media claims that it is in danger of running out of money in the near future," FOP #7 President Kevin Graham wrote in an email to members. "This is not true. Current actuarial projections prepared for the pension fund do not include a time at which the fund has depleted all assets. The media failed to mention that Illinois law mandates that the pension be funded at 90 percent by the year 2055."
  
  FOP No. 7 declined to comment further for this story.

Labels: FOP, money questions

• A former 911 operator in Houston has admitted hanging up on emergency calls "because she did not want to talk to anyone at that time."
  
  Supervisors at the Houston Emergency Center discovered that operator Crenshanda Williams, 43, had been involved with thousands of calls lasting 20 seconds or less. The incidents occurred between October 2015 and March 2016, reports KPRC.
  
  Williams has been charged with a misdemeanor for interference with an emergency phone call. If convicted, she could face a year in jail and a 4,000ドル fine for each count.

Labels: out-of-state, sarcasm AND silliness

• Do you lie awake at night in constant fear a fire will break out and nothing will be done to put it out?
  
  For the 99% of the population not suffering from pyrophobia or a similar neurosis, the answer to that question is "no," even though firefighters aren’t patrolling the streets in their big red trucks. They still manage to arrive at the scene of a fire within minutes of an emergency call.
  
  Why can’t police departments be run the same way?

• Here’s the catch: you can’t have a free society where this "protection" occurs in advance. The federal and every state constitution assumes the government can’t and shouldn’t do anything to prevent a crime. The Fourth and Fifth amendments were written to keep the government from even trying. They assume the government is powerless until a crime has already occurred, the Fourth in particular providing further restraint on how the government investigates after the fact.
  
  Defending oneself while a crime is occurring is left to the citizen. It’s not a responsibility of the police. Even the Supreme Court agrees. Protecting oneself is what the Second Amendment is all about.

Labels: department issues

• A Chicago police officer and a woman were injured in a hit-and-run on the South Side Sunday morning and a person of interest is in custody, police said.
  
  Police said officers were handling a possible domestic dispute at about 2:20 a.m. when a maroon-colored vehicle came speeding down the 6800-block of South State Street and struck a 43-year-old officer and a 24-year-old woman who he was interviewing in the street. The driver then took off, police said.
  
  The officer was treated and released from the hospital Sunday afternoon, while the woman remained hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

Labels: officer injured

• It’s common knowledge that Chicago is one of the nation’s most dangerous cities when it comes to gun violence. But that’s only because it has one of the highest populations.
  
  A non-profit news outlet that focuses on gun coverage called The Trace, found that in gun violence per capita, Chicago isn’t even in the top 10 — or the top 15.
  
  Miami, Washington, D.C. and other metro areas are worse. And here are the absolute worst: New Orleans is on top, followed by Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore and Oakland.
  
  You have to go all the way down to number 18 to find Chicago, right behind Pittsburgh.

• The report points out that Chicago does have the most homicides but its murder rate per capita is one third as high as New Orleans.

Labels: stats

• Chicago Public Schools is serving up free lunches for kids during summer break.
  
  Starting Monday, children 18 and under can stop by 96 locations across the city for a meal as part of the CPS LunchStop summer meal program.
  
  Locations will be open Mondays through Fridays between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. until Aug. 25.

Labels: money questions

• A Chicago man is grateful to be alive after collapsing on a basketball court.
  
  Doctors say he’s only alive because of the actions of a heroic Chicago police officer who says, he’s "always on duty"

Labels: good news

• I - yes, no, yes, yes, yes, no
• II - no, yes, yes
• III - no, yes, yes, yes
• IV - no, no, yes, yes

Labels: sarcasm AND silliness

• A woman was killed in a crash early Saturday in the Englewood neighborhood when the driver of an SUV collided with her car while speeding away from a police stop.
  
  About 1:05 a.m., officers on patrol heard gunshots and stopped a white Kia SUV as it came out of an alley in the 5700 block of South LaSalle, according to Chicago Police.
  
  A passenger in the SUV, identified as 29-year-old Richard Johnson, was told to get out of the vehicle while the officers investigated, police said. When Johnson stepped out, the male driver of the SUV sped away south and crashed into a Ford Focus in the 5900 block of South LaSalle.
  
  The driver of the SUV ran off after the crash and has not been located, police said.

Labels: we got nothing

• Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democrats orchestrated a brief reprieve from their fighting Friday as they touted a new law to crack down on repeat gun offenders.
  
  Rauner inked his approval to the legislation at a hastily arranged signing ceremony in his Capitol office, a day after his staff accused Democrats of holding onto the bill in order to deny the governor a chance to celebrate the political accomplishment.
  
  The governor called lawmakers to Springfield for a 10-day special session, during which Democrats have cast the governor as unwilling to negotiate and incapable of completing a political deal.
  
  The new gun law was long sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whose relationship with the governor also has been strained. Emanuel and Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson pushed the measure as a way to help reduce crime in the city.
  
  The legislation changes gun sentencing laws so that instead of a range of three to 14 years for some repeat gun crimes, judges would hand out sentences of seven to 14 years. If they want to depart from that guideline, they will have to explain why.

Labels: we got nothing

• A crash involving a Chicago Police vehicle Friday night on the West Side sent four officers and another person to hospitals.
  
  About 9:20 p.m., officers turned on their vehicle’s emergency equipment in the East Garfield Park neighborhood when they saw a vehicle in the 3000 block of West Madison that was wanted in connection with an investigation, according to Chicago Police.
  
  As the officers were traveling south on Sacramento, a black SUV traveling east on Madison struck the police vehicle on the passenger side, police said. The SUV then hit another vehicle that was stopped in traffic.

Labels: officer injured

• When the City of Seattle passed a tax on all sales of guns and ammunition, the measure was hailed as a way to defray the rising costs of gun violence.
  
  But since the tax took effect, those costs have only risen as gun violence in the city has surged. And the tax has apparently brought in much less than city leaders projected it would.
  
  [...] Seattle City Councilman Tim Burgess introduced the tax in 2015. It puts a 25ドル tax on every firearm sold in the city and up to 5 cents per round of ammunition. The measure easily passed and took effect January 1, 2016. Comparing the first five months of 2017 with the same period before the gun tax went into effect, reports of shots fired are up 13 percent, the number of people injured in shootings climbed 37 percent and gun deaths doubled, according to crime statistics from the Seattle Police Department.

• In selling his gun tax to the public, Burgess predicted it would generate between 300,000ドル and 500,000ドル annually. The money would be used to study the root causes of gun violence in hopes of reducing the costs to taxpayers.
  
  Seattle officials refuse to say how much the tax brought in the first year, only giving the number "under 200,000ドル." Gun rights groups have sued to get the exact amount.

Labels: dumb ideas, money questions

• A cool and wet May helped tamp down the stupidity a bit which was good enough for "at least it’s not as bad as last year". Now a warmer and therefore more violent June has been running up the score and as of this post, 2017 has now once again tied 2016. Of course this is "unacceptable" and we’ll be on the lookout for new strategies, including but not limited to further depletion of police manpower from the non-warzone parts of town and accelerated development of a supervillan weather control device.

Labels: crime, stats

• Two off-duty Chicago police officers were involved in a fight with three male strangers as they left a club in the city's River North neighborhood early Friday morning.
  
  The two officers, ages 32 and 25, and a woman were leaving the club in the 400-block of North LaSalle Drive around 2 a.m. when the argument began. It turned physical and the older officer sustained injuries to his face, police said.
  
  The 32-year-old officer was transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was treated and released. The 25-year-old officer was not visibly hurt in the fight and refused medical treatment, police said.
  
  The woman, who was not involved in the fight, fainted at the scene and was also transported to Northwestern, where police said her condition stabilized.

Labels: officer injured

Labels: county, rumors

• Cook County in 2016 again recorded the largest black population of any county in the U.S., but it carries that title with less conviction than previous years as more African-Americans move to outlying suburbs or warmer states in the South and West, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
  
  Between 2015 and 2016, more than 12,000 black residents left Cook County, an increase from the previous year when about 9,000 residents left. The greater Chicago area, which for the census includes parts of Indiana and Wisconsin, has lost nearly 46,000 black residents since 2010. That exodus is larger than in any other metropolitan area in the country.

• Gunfire interrupted three Little League baseball games on the West Side on Wednesday night during an event meant to build connections between two neighborhoods that grapple with violence.
  
  Teams from Little Village and Near West Side were playing at Altgeld Park at Harrison Street and Washtenaw Avenue when at least nine shots were fired around 6:45 p.m. No one was hit, but the fields were cleared.
  
  [...] The two leagues play each other every Wednesday. DeMateo said it's an opportunity for Latino kids from Little Village to play with black kids from the Near West Side.

Labels: city politics

• I don't blame CPD for being disgruntled, if I were a cop I would probably be in jail for killing every asshole that looked at me wrong, but to label everyone in the neighborhood as anti-cop SJW liberals is fucking retarded and even if they were, it shouldn't stop you from your job of keeping the people that live there safe.

• While the party itself sparked a few fights caught on camera, six people were shot on the Near West Side Sunday. One of the shootings, injuring a 29-year-old man, occurred at 11:10 p.m. on Adams Street, just a block or two west of the park.
  
  Minutes later, two more men were shot standing in the 2500 block of West Jackson Boulevard, a half-mile away from the park, police said.

Labels: we got nothing

• Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new plan Tuesday in which 12 cities will receive more federal manpower to combat violence in their communities.
  
  "Turning back the recent troubling increase of violence crime in our country is a top priority of the Department of Justice and the Trump administration as we work to fulfill the president's promise to make America safe again," Sessions said at the beginning of the Justice Department's two-day summit on crime reduction.
  
  The first round of cities chosen for the new initiative, the National Public Safety Partnership, are Baton Rouge, La.; Birmingham, Ala.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Cincinnati; Houston; Indianapolis; Jackson, Tenn.; Kansas City, Mo.; Lansing, Mich.; Memphis, Tenn.; Springfield, Ill.; and Toledo, Ohio.

1. Baltimore
2. Chicago

Labels: national politics

• Tiger Woods’ design firm on Wednesday released final designs for a multimillion-dollar plan to merge the Jackson Park and South Shore golf courses into PGA-caliber links, a vision met with cautious optimism as city officials presented the idea to South Side residents.
  
  The city, Chicago Park District, TGR Design and Chicago Golf Alliance showcased the proposed course layout at the South Shore Cultural Center, the first in a series of public hearings to gather community feedback on the "South Lakefront Framework Plan," a revamp that includes the course and the Obama Presidential Library.
  
  What remains to be seen is how much the golf course project will cost — and who will foot the bill.

• The Chicago Golf Alliance has said merging the courses will cost about 30ドル million, with 24ドル million coming from private donors.
  
  But infrastructure improvements around the courses — including two new underpasses, at 67th Street and South Shore Drive, and at 66th Street and Jeffery Boulevard — could at least double that price tag, critics say, and it’s unclear where that money would come from.

Labels: money questions

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• Without a taxpayer bailout, Chicago’s police pension fund won’t have enough money to pay benefits to retirees in 2021, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.
  
  At the end of 2020, LGIS estimates that the Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago will have less than 150ドル million in assets to pay 928ドル million promised to 14,133 retirees the following year.
  
  Fund assets will fall from 3ドル.2 billion at the end of 2015 to 1ドル.4 billion at the end of 2018, 751ドル million at the end of 2019, and 143ドル million at the end of 2020, according to LGIS.
  
  LGIS analyzed 12 years of the fund’s mandated financial filings with the Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI), which regulates public pension funds. It found that-- without taxpayer subsidies and the ability to use active employee contributions to pay current retirees, a practice that is illegal in the private sector-- the fund would have already run completely dry, in 2015.

Labels: money questions, pension

• This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.
  
  The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."

• A raucous and "very dangerous" gang party that brought 1,000 people to a Near West Side park late Sunday was so out of control, Chicago police struggled to shut it down, one alderman said.
  
  Despite calling for police and politicians to address notoriously loud and sometimes violent gang parties for years, neighbors living near Touhy-Herbert Park report that this weekend's massive all-night party that spilled over into the streets was worse than ever.
  
  The footage of the post-Father's Day party, captured in photos and on video just two blocks west of the United Center, shows hundreds of people crowding the streets, drinking, smoking and at times, fighting. As music is blasted over car stereos, women illuminated with floodlights dance on the hood of cars, and the blue lights of police squad cars flash in the background.
  
  One area neighbor called the out-of-control party "Armageddon."

Labels: we got nothing

• Chicago's top watchdog has found no evidence that several well-connected police command officers — including Superintendent Eddie Johnson's fiancee — cheated on a promotion exam, but he also recommended that the department tighten its testing procedures.

• Inspector General Joseph Ferguson said in a report released Wednesday that investigators found no proof to support allegations that a former top-ranking officer who helped develop the 2015 lieutenants exam had leaked elements of the test in advance and coached cops to higher scores.
  
  Ferguson, however, criticized the department's testing procedures. He suggested that the department hire an outside company or person to finalize tests to eliminate the possibility that parts of exams will be leaked. He also suggested that officials who develop tests should be required to disclose any personal relationships with those taking the test.
  

Labels: promotions, scandals

• The city of Chicago has agreed to pay 9ドル.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a man who was severely injured when a police officer jolted him with a Taser and he fell and hit his head on the pavement, court records show.

• Jose Lopez was injured in July 2011, as officers were aiding paramedics who had been called to the Little Village neighborhood, where Lopez was experiencing chest pains. Lopez repeatedly refused medical treatment and officers alleged that he took a swing at them before Officer [...] tased him, according to court records.

Labels: department issues, dumb ideas

• Thousands of revelers descended on Humboldt Park for this weekend's Puerto Rican Festival and Parade — but the weekend also saw an uptick in shootings, including one that left a 33-year-old man dead.
  
  Ald. Roberto Maldonado (26th) did not respond to requests for comment on the violence, but said in a statement that he'd spoken to Kevin Navarro, the first deputy superintendent for Chicago Police, "to express my deep concern about the recent increase" in crime in the area.
  
  Maldonado said he told Navarro police staffing had dropped in the area, and that there was a "clear need" for more police.

Labels: un-fucking-believable

• Illinois is like Venezuela now, a fiscally broken state that has lost its will to live, although for the moment, we still have enough toilet paper. But before we run out of the essentials, let's finally admit that after decade upon decade of taxing and spending and borrowing, Illinois has finally run out of other people's money. Those "other people" include taxpayers who've abandoned the state. And now Illinois faces doomsday.
  
  So as the politicians meet in Springfield this week for another round of posturing and gesturing and blaming, we need a plan. And here it is:
  
  Dissolve Illinois. Decommission the state, tear up the charter, whatever the legal mumbo-jumbo, just end the whole dang thing. We just disappear. With no pain. That's right. You heard me.

Labels: media

• Police suspect the 17-year-old reputed gang member who investigators believe sprayed an unmarked police van with bullets from an assault rifle last month – hitting two cops – has fled to Mexico.
  
  "He has family in Mexico," a law enforcement source said Wednesday. It’s the job of the U.S. Marshals office to work with law enforcement from Mexico to collar the teen, the source said.
  
  "It’s on ongoing investigation, so I can’t comment," U.S. Marshals spokeswoman Belkis Sandoval said Wednesday. "But I can say this case is a priority. And we investigate all leads, even if there in other countries."

Labels: officer injured

• Downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) has made an "urgent request" for more overnight police patrols on the Lakefront Trail, the downtown Riverwalk and in Streeterville after a 25-year-old Lawndale woman was shot and killed in his ward early Sunday.
  
  Reilly has also requested more surveillance cameras, better lighting and the overnight shutdown during warm weather months of an underpass at Ohio and Lake Shore Drive used to access the beach, the Lakefront Trail and Navy Pier.
  
  It was near that underpass in the 500 block of East Ohio that 25-year-old Raven Lemons was shot in the head and killed around 2 a.m. Sunday. It was the first downtown homicide reported this year, but violent crime has been on the rise, along with the temperatures.

Labels: department issues, silly people

Labels: safety issues

• A man fell off the top of a vehicle and died Sunday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
  
  About 3:30 p.m., the 26-year-old jumped onto a vehicle in traffic in the 5100 block of West Chicago Avenue, according to Chicago Police.
  
  The driver accelerated out of fear and struck the man, police said.

• Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Labels: we got nothing

• Chicago recorded its 300th homicide over the Father's Day weekend, just like it did last year.
  
  The somber milestone was reached around 2:30 a.m. Monday when a 33-year-old man was gunned down during a burst of violence that saw four people killed and 13 others wounded over just five hours Sunday evening through early Monday, according to data kept by the Tribune.
  
  At one point, officers working a double-shooting on the Near West Side late Sunday night had to duck for cover when shots were fired blocks away.

Labels: crime, stats

• Alder-scum Maldonado is at it again. He's the one that was written a ticket and claimed the police were racist. He tried to drive through a shooting crime scene to get home and when he was stopped pulled out his cell phone camera and started taunting the Sargent [sic]. He demanded to be allowed to drive (while obviously impaired) through shell casings so he could get his kids home. Now he is demanding a meeting with the Commander or else. Stay tuned to see him run to the media with this one too. Only difference is this time his antics were caught on dash cam and body cam.

Labels: silly people

• ADMISSION / RELEASE / DISCHARGE INFO
  
  Admission Date: 05/09/2017
  Projected Parole Date: 02/08/2018
  Last Paroled Date:
  Projected Discharge Date: 02/08/2020

Labels: un-fucking-believable

• Thirty-two members of the Chicago Fire Department’s brass resigned their exempt positions Monday and returned to rank-and-file status in a fight over pay and benefits that will cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  The bosses will return to their career service ranks of battalion chief and, in one case, paramedic field chief, but will continue to "act up" in their exempt positions.
  
  That means the 32 will now be eligible for overtime, holiday pay, duty availability, hazmat and other forms of supplemental and specialty pay afforded to members of the rank-and-file.
  
  They resigned en masse at 8 a.m. Monday. They represent more than half of the brass on the fire suppression side of the Chicago Fire Department but just one of roughly a dozen bosses overseeing emergency medical services.

• ...the state pension code doesn’t allow exempt fire officers to earn pension benefits based on their current salary. Instead, their pension benefits are based on the lower salary of their most recent union-covered job.
  
  All of that can result in a loss of thousands of dollars in pay each year for exempts — sometimes 20,000ドル or 25,000,ドル sources say.
  
  Pending state legislation known as a "brass bill" would allow exempt fire employees to earn a pension based on the pay for their current jobs.

Labels: fire fighters, pension

• Information we have obtained from numerous sources is that the current administration of the Cook County Sheriff's Department cannot account for over 300 subjects (various reports place this number as high as 500) who have been released on electronic monitoring.
  
  These subjects include highly violent repeat offenders, which the admin of the CCSD does not have knowledge of their whereabouts.
  
  Furthermore, information obtained is that the officers in the electronic monitoring unit are so severely understaffed that they have a near 9 month backlog of work to complete.
  
  Sheriff Tom Dart has not hired a Deputy 11 years despite his budget expanding nearly 200 million in that same period. The court deputy division is down over 700 officers since 2006... Dart however, found funding for 244 'Shakman Exempt' political hires

Labels: county

• Tribune - Three people were fatally shot and 22 others were wounded across the city during 18 hours from Saturday to Sunday, according to police. Of those shot, eight were wounded in two separate quadruple shootings on the West Side.
• Sun Times - A woman who was shot to death in the Gold Coast neighborhood was among eight people shot early Sunday. In total, 3 people have been killed and 36 others have been wounded in gun violence across Chicago since Friday evening.

• 9 dead, 44 wounded (numbers may change - at least two on life support at last report)

Labels: sarcasm AND silliness, stats

• A West Side woman was fatally shot while standing on the street near Ohio Street Beach early Sunday, police said.
  
  About 5 a.m., the woman was standing with an acquaintance in the 500 block of East Ohio Street when someone shot her in the head, police said.
  
  The woman was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Labels: crime

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• One adult and two teens have been charged in connection with the shooting that wounded two young girls outside an elementary school in the city's Pill Hill neighborhood Friday afternoon, Chicago police said.
  
  The three suspects have been charged with two felony counts of attempted first degree murders, two felony counts of aggravated battery and one misdemeanor count of criminal trespass to a vehicles.

Labels: good news

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• Gun violence in Chicago has surged since late 2015, and much of the news media attention on how the city plans to address this problem has focused on the Strategic Subject List, or S.S.L.
  
  The list is made by an algorithm that tries to predict who is most likely to be involved in a shooting, either as perpetrator or victim. The algorithm is not public, but the city has now placed a version of the list — without names — online through its open data portal, making it possible for the first time to see how Chicago evaluates risk.
  
  We analyzed that information and found that the assigned risk scores — and what characteristics go into them — are sometimes at odds with the Chicago Police Department’s public statements and cut against some common perceptions.
  

Labels: info for the police

• In 1812, Chicago was not a city, but rather a frontier settlement occupied mostly by French-Canadian and American traders as well as soldiers and Native Americans. It was the home of Fort Dearborn, the site of the famous battle that would take place that same year.
  
  But Fort Dearborn’s history was bloodied even before it became known for the battle that bears its name. Just two months earlier — on June 17 — it was the site of Chicago's first documented murder.
  
  The murderer was John Kinzie. In history, he is sometimes referred to as "Chicago's first citizen," but Haiti-born Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is widely considered to own that title today. (Du Sable built a cabin just north of the Chicago River near Lake Michigan — approximately where the Tribune Tower is today — in 1779, where he established a trading post. That same cabin was later purchased by Kinzie in 1804.)
  
  The victim was Jean La Lime, a French trader who also served as an interpreter among the settlement's inhabitants and the Native Americans. La Lime first purchased du Sable's cabin and later sold it to Kinzie.

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• Khia Shanks, an eighth-grader who graduated Thursday, was making water balloons for the big water-balloon fight — a normal occurrence at end-of-year school picnics across the country.
  
  But this end-of-year event at Warren Elementary on the Far South Side ended up being anything but normal.
  
  Instead of balloons flying, there were bullets.
  
  "The kids were running around the playground playing with water balloons," 14-year-old Khia said. "I went outside and saw a black van drive by and someone fired about five shots.

• "This makes me sick that kids are having an end-of-the-year picnic and they have to get shot at," Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said at a press conference outside the school.

• Mayor Rahm Emanuel, was meeting the victims’ families at Comer Children’s Hospital, Claypool said.
  
  "I’ve known the mayor for 30 years and I have never seen him so angry," Claypool said.

• The gunfire sounded like a small firecracker. Shot from a small-caliber handgun pointed out the window of a silver car, the bullet struck 78-year-old Gene Gordon two blocks from his South Side home on a muggy Thursday afternoon.
  
  Gordon fell to the pavement, bleeding from his head and struggling to move. His right eye swelled. He couldn’t speak. He was dying.
  
  A 19-year-old man who had been sitting on the curb — and was the shooter's intended target — scampered away unharmed, Chicago police said. The silver car sped north on Hermitage Avenue, from 68th Street toward Marquette Road. No one has been arrested.

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• People thought they heard fireworks as they strolled near Millennium Park and the Art Institute of Chicago on a warm evening Thursday.
  
  But it was gunfire, a man in his 20s shot in the abdomen at Monroe Street and Michigan Avenue. It was the second shooting at that intersection in nine months.
  
  "This is like something off of 'Law and Order,'" one woman said as she gawked at the scene before crossing Michigan.
  
  "Welcome to Chicago," another passerby said.

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• Illinois residents may feel some solidarity with the likes of Puerto Rico and Detroit.
  
  A financial crunch is spiraling into a serious problem for Illinois lawmakers, prompting some observers to wonder if the state might make history by becoming the first to go bankrupt. At the moment, it's impossible for a state to file for bankruptcy protection, which is only afforded to counties and municipalities like Detroit.
  
  Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection could be extended to states if Congress took up the issue, although Stanford Law School professor Michael McConnell noted in an article last year that he believed the precedents are iffy for extending the option to states. Nevertheless, Illinois is in a serious financial pickle, which is why radical options such as bankruptcy are being floated as potential solutions.

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• A group of bystanders at North Avenue Beach prevented the escape of a man who stabbed someone nine times, then tried to flee Tuesday, prosecutors said Thursday.
  
  Pablo Sosa, 35, has been charged with aggravated battery and attempted murder. He was ordered held in lieu of 750,000ドル bond Thursday.
  
  [..] Other people with the man thought Sosa was acting strangely and told their friend to look out for him, Scaduto said.

• Police initially said that Sosa and the man with the bottle were engaged in a mutual fight over a domestic dispute. That account was contradicted by prosecutors’ account Thursday.

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• Citing a lack of personnel, the Cook County state's attorney's office plans to stop prosecuting certain traffic offenses, a top county official said.
  
  Under a policy expected to take effect later this year, the state's attorney's office will not prosecute people accused of driving on licenses that have been suspended or revoked for financial reasons — such as failure to pay child support, tolls or parking tickets.
  
  Instead, individual cities will have the option to prosecute those violations.

• The move comes as State's Attorney Kim Foxx, elected in November, has pushed in other ways to change how her office handles low-level, nonviolent cases. In December, she dramatically raised the bar for felony charges related to shoplifting. And this week, she said that prosecutors could recommend that judges to release nonviolent defendants charged with low-level crimes without any cash bail, pending the resolution of their cases.

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• 25ドル.00 per gun
• 0ドル.05 per center fire round
• 0ドル.01 per rim fire round

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• The popular Powerball lottery and Mega Millions games will drop Illinois at the end of June without a budget agreement, Illinois Lottery officials said Thursday.
  
  Concern over the state’s fiscal condition prompted the Multi-State Lottery Association to drop Powerball in Illinois, according to internal Illinois Lottery communications obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
  
  Mega Millions also plans to drop the state unless a budget agreement comes together, state officials confirmed. Without a budget in place, the state isn’t authorized to make payments to Mega Millions or the association.

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• Two Chicago Police officers were able to save a premature newborn’s life Monday by using CPR.
  
  The officers, Mark Palazzolo and Maritza Bautista, were called to a house near the 2300 block of South Lawndale Avenue, where a 26-year-old woman had called 911 to say her baby was not breathing after she gave birth in the 34th week of pregnancy.
  
  The woman, whom Bautista said "was horrified," gave birth to the baby in her basement, and the umbilical cord was still attached, the officers said during a news conference Tuesday afternoon at the Ogden Police District. When Palazzolo called Chicago Fire Department paramedics about the unresponsive infant, the officer was told to remove the umbilical cord before performing CPR.
  
  [...]The officers did CPR on the baby girl for four minutes until fire rescuers arrived and took her to Mount Sinai Hospital, where her condition has stabilized, Palazzolo said.

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