Second City Cop

• A man in a rented truck drove onto a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center memorial Tuesday, killing at least six people and injuring several others, police said. The driver was then shot by police after jumping out with what turned out to be two fake guns.
  
  A police official said the attack was being investigated as a possible act of terrorism. The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
  
  The attacker was taken into custody. His condition was not immediately disclosed.

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• Musician and songwriter Antony Ablan got to thinking about how crime suspects can spend years awaiting trial inside the Cook County Jail, and came up with an idea — a program, really, to help detainees learn a skill — that he thought might be met with eye rolls.
  
  He floated it to officials anyway: Put a professional music recording studio inside the sprawling jail complex on Chicago’s Southwest Side.
  
  The music teacher and frontman for a local band, Antony and the Tramps, said he found a receptive audience in Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who runs the jail, and others.
  
  "I thought it was a bit of a pipe dream to build a studio in a jail. And I start calling places and they say ‘sure,’" he laughed.
  
  The only problem? There’s no money in the sheriff’s budget to do it.

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• A man was in custody Sunday night after he shot someone and assaulted two others during a robbery at a steakhouse where he used to work near the Magnificent Mile, authorities said.
  
  About 11:45 p.m., the man entered Lawry’s The Prime Rib, 100 E. Ontario St., and found several employees in the locker room, where he restrained them, stole their cellphones and announced a robbery, according to Chicago Police and the Chicago Fire Department.
  
  One of the victims interrupted the robber, who then opened fire, police said.
  
  A 28-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to his right arm and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hosptial, where his condition was stabilized, police said.

Labels: crime

• Staffers in the Cook County Public Defender’s Office are used to clients who may have done horrible things, but over the last two years, female employees say their clients have become more brazen in doing horrible things right in front of them.
  
  Masturbating inmates have become a common sight on the walk to and from holding cells where defense attorneys meet clients, and at the jail and in courthouse lockups. Last week, in a letter to Chief Judge Timothy Evans, Public Defender Amy Campanelli said her staff has reached a breaking point.
  
  Campanelli declined to share a copy of the letter, but confirmed that she warned the judge that her staff won’t visit the jail starting Nov. 6 unless he or Sheriff Tom Dart can offer up a solution.

• "There have always been these incidents since I became a public defender," said Campanelli, who has been in the office for more than a decade. "But it’s never been like it is today, where it’s like the behavior we’re seeing now, every day, or every other day. It’s just become pervasive. We’ve tried everything."

• Just read this on Facebook. Dart tried to negotiate a pizza deal with the inmates and the next day they did a circle jerk around one of his female Directors. The Illinois Sheriff and Public Defenders say no other prison in the country has this sexual assault/masturbation problem. Way to go Sheriff.
  
  It went as far as negotiating with pizza in a div 9 tier asking then to promise not to masturbate after a pizza party, next day they all masturbated in front of a director, they formed a circle around her and did a jerk circle around her. jailguards warned her and asked to escort her, she felt confident that the pizza from the night before was going to stop the jerking off. she trusted the inmates

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• Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson called on state lawmakers to approve legislation to more aggressively regulate gun dealers in Illinois, pointing to a newly released trove of data that shows many guns recovered by police in connection with crimes can be traced back to licensed gun stores in the Chicago area.
  
  The call for legislative action came as Johnson and other advocates for stricter gun rules convened Sunday at police headquarters to highlight findings of a new report tracing so-called "crime guns" — firearms found at a shooting scene, in the possession of gang members or otherwise being used illegally — to their original point of sale.

• The report says Chuck's Gun Shop in Riverdale, Ill. and Midwest Sporting Goods in Lyons, Ill. are the top two source dealers of traced crime guns in Chicago. The remaining stores in the top ten are: Westforth Sports in Gary, Indiana, Cabela's in Hammond, Indiana, Shore Galleries in Lincolnwood, Illinois, GAT Guns in East Dundee, Illinois, Suburban Sporting Goods in Melrose Park, Illinois, Pelcher's Shooter Supply in Lansing, Illinois, Blythe's Sport Shop in Griffith, Indiana, and Sporting Arms and Supply in Posen, Illinois.

Labels: gun issues

• A woman was killed Saturday night when a gun accidentally discharged inside a Portage Park neighborhood home on the Northwest Side, police said.
  
  About 10 p.m., 21-year-old Nadia Manjarrez and a 37-year-old man were inside a home in the 4800 block of West Hutchinson when the gun went off, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
  
  Manjarrez, who lived in the neighborhood, was shot in the head and taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 10:50 p.m., authorities said. An autopsy was scheduled for Sunday.

• A 16-year-old girl is dead and three other people were hospitalized after shootings Sunday.
  
  The girl was shot in the face about 7 p.m. in the 6600 block of South Marquette Road, according to Chicago police.
  
  The girl, who was pronounced dead on the scene, was in a home when an acquaintance was "handling a firearm" and accidentally shot the victim in the eye, police said.

Labels: general

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• Suspected human remains were found packed in two duffel bags near the Lincoln Park lagoon Saturday morning on the North Side.
  
  Fishermen called police from the lagoon near the 2200 block of North Stockton shortly before 11 a.m. when they found one bag containing possible remains, according to Chicago Police.
  
  Police divers responded and found a second bag with additional remains thought to be from the same person, police said.
  
  Detectives were looking into missing person cases for possible leads as the Cook County medical examiner’s office investigated the remains, police said.

• Late Saturday afternoon, authorities continued searching the lagoon area next to a Lincoln Park Zoo parking lot, with staff directing drivers toward the other end. Steps away from the crime scene, families attended "Spooky Zoo 2017," billed on the zoo’s website as an opportunity for families "to celebrate Halloween in a free, safe, and family-friendly environment."

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• A 37-year- man and an 84-year-old woman were injured in shootings Saturday on the West Side, Chicago police said.
  
  Police released updated information after initially saying an 84-year-old woman was shot in the face Saturday afternoon.
  
  About 12:45 p.m., police were called to the 1500 block of South Homan Avenue in Lawndale on the city's West Side. At first, officers reported finding the woman suffering from a graze wound to her face, according to a media notification. In an update, it later was determined that she wasn't shot, but that a bullet instead likely shattered a window, which sent glass into the woman's face, cutting it.
  
  The shooter was in a black SUV but exited the vehicle before opening fire, aiming toward another vehicle in the same block, police said.
  
  The woman was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was listed in good condition, according to authorities.

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• This year’s city budget is going to be even more interesting than usual, Ald. Tom Tunney [44th] predicted last week.
  
  And it isn’t just a matter of dollars and cents this time around, he said.
  
  Speaking at an Oct. 18 Lake View Kiwanis Club meeting at Ann Sather’s restaurant, 909 W. Belmont Ave., Tunney said the Police Dept. is having a hard time finding recruits.

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• Will Chicagoans ever find out what then-Mayor Richard M. Daley knew about the Chicago Police investigation that enabled his nephew to escape criminal charges in a homicide case for a decade?
  
  The Illinois Appellate Court’s answer: No.
  
  A written statement that Daley gave to a grand jury regarding the investigation must remain under lock and key because grand-jury secrecy trumps the public’s right to know what Daley said, a new ruling from the court states.
  
  The statement Daley crafted four years ago came as he and other Daley family members were being interviewed by lawyers working under attorney Dan K. Webb, the court-appointed special prosecutor who ended up putting Daley nephew Richard J. "RJ" Vanecko in jail for throwing a punch that caused David Koschman’s death in 2004.

Labels: corruption, scandals

• A federal jury awarded a Morgan Park man a record-breaking 44ドル.7 million Thursday after finding that a Chicago police officer shot him in the head after a night of heavy drinking and that the troubled Police Department enabled the off-duty patrolman’s violent behavior.

• Because the jury found that the Police Department has a widespread problem with disciplining officers and failed to maintain an early warning system, the city of Chicago is responsible for the 44ドル.7 million award and LaPorta’s legal fees, which likely also will be millions of dollars.
  
  [...]
  
  Kelly, 36, has been found mentally unfit for duty twice, arrested two times, accused of beating a girlfriend and treated for alcohol addiction. He has been sued six times and has been the subject of more than two dozen investigations into his on- and off-duty conduct, including one in which he was found to have assaulted a female sergeant.

Labels: scandals, un-fucking-believable

• Two Chicago police officers are in critical condition after crashing into a construction barrier on the city's South Side.
  
  The crash happened just after 4 a.m. Thursday at a construction site at 83rd and Woodlawn.
  
  The police SUV crashed through a concrete barrier, then dropped into a hole dug into the intersection, trapping both officers.
  
  The Chicago Fire Department had to extricate the male officers, and both were rushed to Christ Hospital in critical condition with non-life threatening injuries.

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• In a racially charged attack, Inspector General Joe Ferguson on Wednesday came under intense fire from several City Council members for a blistering op-ed he wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times in response to the murder of a Rogers Park schoolteacher.
  
  License Committee Chairman Emma Mitts (37th) asked Ferguson why it took the murder of 64-year-old Cynthia Trevillion — who taught Ferguson’s children — to convince the inspector general to call out the mayor, Police Supt. Eddie Johnson and all 50 aldermen.
  
  [...] Mitts seized on the fact that Trevillion was white in attacking Ferguson’s criticism of city officials.

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• OT- Annual watch furlough order is usually issued by now but delay is because: Furlough picks will be 8.75% (1,2,3,4,5,11,12 and 13th periods) and 6% (6,7,8,9,10).

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• The retirees who contributed to the Dallas Police Department's staffing shortage may soon help plug the hole they left behind.
  
  The department is looking to hire as many as 40 retirees as temporary civilian workers to fill vacancies in investigations, administration and field support.
  
  The hiring program, which is expected to cost 1ドル.8 million, would be beneficial to both retirees and the department, Deputy Chief Scott Walton told the City Council's public safety and criminal justice committee on Monday.

Labels: department issues, out-of-state

• The commander of 025 dumped the cops off of 2535 because they didn't have ISRs. Nevermind that they lead the watch in arrests on afternoons! Not so much because they were go getters, but because that beat is sometimes the only 30 sector car that is not 'beat integrity.' During the summer they were hammered with jobs and arrests. All the other supervisors told EscameRAT that he was wrong and it was a bad idea to dump them off the car, but dumb ass thinks he knows everything.
  
  Besides fucking with these guys, Triple-Merit Tony is having Sgts tell the guys with two years on the job that he is aware of their lack of ISRs. This sack of monkey shit is the epitome of everything that is wrong with this sick joke of a police department.

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• Selfishly, I wish Chicago had heard from you earlier as countless families on the South and West sides were dealing with this very same grief — or when the Mayor and I were fighting in Springfield to create a culture of accountability for repeat gun offenders. Nevertheless, your voice is important, valued and needed to make our city safer.

• However, you are misinformed to suggest that CPD does not have a crime strategy or is not invested in the safety of our neighborhoods. So I would like to take this opportunity to tell you exactly what we have been doing to keep Chicagoans safe.
  
  At the very beginning of this year I outlined our strategy to reduce violence in 2017 based upon three important pillars: targeted, data driven enforcement, addressing the flaws in sentencing guidelines for repeat gun offenders, and renewing our community policing and engagement with the public. While we still have a lot of work ahead of us, we relied not on words, but action to make significant progress on all three pillars.

• In six of our most historically violent districts, we launched intelligence nerve centers that give our officers the data and tools they need to drive a 22 percent average reduction in shooting incidents in those neighborhoods and a nearly 18 percent reduction citywide, with 18 out of 22 police districts seeing reductions in gun violence this year. The Englewood district, which was the first to implement this technology, has seen a nearly 45 percent reduction compared to 2016 and a nearly 25 percent reduction compared to 2015.

• Shootings have NOT dropped 18% citywide (They've dropped 5% citywide)
• Englewood shootings have NOT dropped 45% 2017 to 2016 (They've dropped 4% YTD)

Labels: general

• Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to go after more cars parked illegally on weekends in busy areas of the city as part of his 2018 budget.
  
  Emanuel’s financial team told aldermen Monday they would expand from the downtown area to other neighborhoods a program to pay parking enforcement workers overtime to work weekends, hoping to take in an extra 4ドル million.
  
  That amount is a pittance in the context of the mayor’s proposed 8ドル.6 billion budget, but it’s a move that could anger Chicago drivers already smarting from red light and speeding camera ticket programs.
  
  And it shows the lengths to which Emanuel will go to try to balance the city’s books without resorting to more broad tax increases that are proving increasingly politically perilous.

• City Comptroller Erin Keane said the city will look to bring in a firm to provide parking enforcement workers with up-to-date "data analytics" about areas where business owners and others are complaining about cars parking in metered spots without paying. And the city will buy the workers new mobile ticket equipment so they can issue the violations faster.

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• Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Sunday that 14,020 people have applied to become Chicago Police officers.
  
  The Chicago Police Department will give an exam in December, the second one this year and the fourth in six years. The city plans to add nearly 1,000 officers by the end of 2018.
  
  The mayor said his proposed budget includes more than 27ドル million for increased police training to help departments reach hiring goals.
  
  In August, Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said the two-year hiring plan was moving on schedule, and that an April exam generated 8,700 qualified candidates.

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• OT: Hey SCC, if you get a chance look at the background of two of the offenders involved in the Greek Town shooting. Both are on parole for Murder, both charged in 2008 and eventually convicted. Offender 1 was sentenced to 18 years and offender 2 was sentenced to 80months. Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought you didn't get day for day good behavior on a murder conviction? How in the world is offender 1 out of prison and how does offender 2 get 6 1/2 years on a murder?!?! Where's the outrage, where's the accountability, where's the protest? News Media, you want to know why our City's streets are lost? Start by looking here!

Labels: scandals, un-fucking-believable

• Looks like McCarthys run for Mayor has paid off for him, the chatter from City Hall is McCarthy/Simon will finally get a HUGE security contract at both airports that will employ both unarmed security guards and armed off duty P.O.'S.
  
  Expect massive staffing changes at O'Hare as well in a panicked attempt to meet recommendations brought by an outside Israeli security expert who was flabbergasted by the lack of manpower in one of the worlds busiest airports and a massive expansion of O'Hare.
  
  As a stop gap measure Citywide OT initiative will be put in place until the airports are both completely staffed. The present Aviation Officers unfortunately will be disbanded but will get the first shot at being rehired at a considerably lower pay rate.
  
  The Mayor was finally convinced the only thing that could prevent a disaster is to have a large armed CPD presence. The wake up call was US Special Forces troops in Raqqa Syria found mock ups for multiple airports in the world with O'Hare being one. Hopefully we dodged a bullet!

Labels: rumors

• For every cellphone registered to a Chicago address and every Chicago landline, the city will tack on a 5ドル per month charge — up from the current charge of 3ドル.90 per month.
  
  [...] The City Council still needs to sign off on the idea when it considers the proposed budget Nov. 21. But the approval is near certain with aldermen unlikely to favor a citywide tax increase.
  
  Consumers would see the higher taxes reflected on their bills starting Jan. 1.
  
  [...] The City Council last raised the phone tax in 2014, when aldermen approved a 56 percent increase as part of an effort to keep the laborer's pension fund from sliding deeper into the red.
  
  Chicagoans' phone taxes will have risen 100 percent in three years — from 2ドル.50 per line per month to 5ドル per line per month.

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• The Chicago area’s bid for Amazon’s second North American headquarters includes 2ドル.25 billion worth of incentives — and even more if the company chooses the Thompson Center or the old Michael Reese Hospital site where the city and state could provide free land.
  
  The incentive package includes:
  
  Roughly 1ドル.4 billion in state EDGE tax credits. The newly-revised program provides a 50 percent tax break for every job they create in Illinois.
  
  170ドル million in state sales tax breaks for building materials purchased by and new construction completed by "high-end businesses."
  
  60ドル million in property tax breaks through the city and county programs known as Class 7B and 7C.
  
  450ドル million in site-specific infrastructure improvements that would come from the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Chicago Department of Transportation, the CTA and other agencies.
  
  250ドル million worth of investments in education, workforce development and "Neighborhood Opportunity Funds" to make certain that all Chicagoans can qualify for the 50,000 high-end Amazon jobs and that businesses that spring up or move here to support Amazon locate in Chicago neighborhoods.
  
  Free land worth 100ドル million, if Amazon chooses to build its second headquarters at the old Michael Reese Hospital site purchased by former Mayor Richard M. Daley as the site for an Olympics Chicago didn’t get. If Amazon chooses either to re-purpose or demolish and rebuild the Thompson Center that the state has been trying desperately to sell, the free land would be worth even more money.

• The incentive package pales by comparison to the 9ドル billion that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie offered in hopes of luring Amazon to Newark.

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• On 28 September, Officers in 025 were confronted by members of a well known gang. The offenders identified the police as officers they knew, drew weapons, fired and advanced while continuing to fire, retreating only after a lengthy gun battle and abandoning their weapons.

Labels: safety issues

• Three men were robbed at gunpoint Saturday afternoon at the Grand Avenue CTA Red Line subway station on the Near North Side, police said.
  
  The men, ages 22, 24 and 26, were robbed on a platform at the station, 521 N. State St., about 12:25 p.m., said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman.
  
  The three were on the platform when three male attackers came up to them and demanded their property, police said. One of the attackers showed a handgun, and the victims handed over at least one wallet, a backpack and three phones.
  
  The robbers then fled. No detailed description of the attackers was immediately available.

Labels: crime

• In San Francisco, where no automobile parked on the street is immune from glass-smashing thieves, some people have taken to posting signs on car windows announcing that there are no valuables inside.
  
  The hope, of course, is that a thief will read the notice and decide: "Huh. No valuables in this one.I guess I'll break into some other car."
  
  On Tuesday, a Reddit user posted a photo of such a sign and posed the question "Do you think it works?" to the Reddit community. A lively debate ensued.

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• Prompted in part by high-profile complaints about police use of force, the U.S. government in recent years has allocated tens of millions of taxpayer dollars for body cameras for state and local police departments – and those states and municipalities have invested millions of their own dollars as well.
  
  But a study released Friday reveals that body cameras have little to no effect on police behavior. Officers wearing the devices act similarly to those who don’t, the study concludes.
  
  And there is no significant difference in citizen complaints about camera-wearing officers versus those without cameras, the study says.

• Storage

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• The number of plastic and paper bags Chicagoans used to haul home their groceries dropped by 45 percent after city officials imposed a 7-cents-per-bag tax in an effort to keep the disposable sacks out of area landfills, city budget documents reveal.
  
  Because of the drop in use, the bag tax is now expected to generate 5ドル million for the city this year. When the tax went into effect in February, city officials had initially expected it to add 9ドル.2 million to the city's coffers in that time, according to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's 2018 spending plan.

Labels: money questions

• Three people were shot inside a Greektown restaurant after a fight broke out Saturday morning, police said.
  
  The victims and the shooter were involved in a fight inside the restaurant in the 800-block of West Jackson Boulevard when shots were fired.
  
  A 31-year-old man was wounded in the chest and transported to Stroger Hospital in serious condition and a 26-year-old woman suffered a graze wound to her right foot and refused treatment at the scene.
  
  Police said the shooter, a 26-year-old man, was wounded in the left leg and transported to Stroger Hospital. Police said the 26-year-old shot himself.

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• Chicago Public Schools’ enrollment this fall was down nearly 10,000 students from a year ago, a reduction somewhat steeper than the district had expected.
  
  The count on the 20th day of classes was 371,382. The overall student count includes all schools that operate under the district’s oversight, including privately run charter schools.
  
  Last year’s CPS head count was 381,349, which was down close to 11,000 from the previous school year. That difference was largely driven by a lower number of children in district-operated elementary schools and prekindergarten programs, according to the district, while this year, close to three-quarters of the population drop was at district-operated elementary and high schools.

• The district has said it won’t reduce funding for schools where enrollment fell below projections. CPS also said it will not make any midyear budget cuts or order unpaid staff furloughs, as it has in each of the past two years.
  
  The district planned on an enrollment decline of about 8,000 students for this year. That meant district-operated schools in total received roughly 43ドル million less than they did last year.
  
  Such cost reductions have not eased taxpayers’ burdens. CPS plans to raise its property taxes by more than 8 percent, generating 224ドル.5 million of revenue that will be spent largely to cover steadily rising contributions to the city’s teacher pension fund and school infrastructure projects.

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• They were a couple of Chicago cops, each serving in the Illinois Legislature, when they helped change state law to give themselves police pensions at taxpayer expense.
  
  The amendment co-sponsored 16 years ago by now-retired state Rep. Edward "Eddie" Acevedo and current state Sen. Antonio "Tony" Munoz gave them — and also any future Chicago cops-state legislators — the ability to get credit toward their police pensions for every day they served in the Illinois Senate or House.
  
  And Acevedo and Munoz took advantage of the change in Illinois law that they helped enact.
  
  Without that, neither would have been eligible for a police pension at all. That’s because they took so many leaves of absence from their duties at the Chicago Police Department to work in Springfield that they didn’t have the minimum 10 years on the job needed to get a cop pension from the city of Chicago.

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• To the police superintendent: Step up. There is much leadership within, but not enough, from CPD. You can fix that. Start by telling City Hall what you think CPD needs to be doing, and demand from City Hall what you need to do it. Take a lesson from your patrol days. Patrol officers exercise enormous judgment in the field, but do so within the parameters of extensive training and guidance from the department to execute strategies developed by experts. In other words, patrol officers are brave, dedicated soldiers who follow orders and direction from leadership. Your role in this scenario: lead.
  
  And let’s admit what we all know: Our city does not have a comprehensive crime strategy. We desperately need one — and a leader to make it a reality. What we don’t need? Spinning an innovative technology-enhanced tactical pilot project as a crime strategy, which it is not.
  
  If you are missing the needed expertise internally, then get help from the outside. People chosen by you, not City Hall. People with experience and demonstrated successes in developing and implementing crime strategies in large municipalities.

• Inspector General Joe Ferguson

1. What are you smoking?
2. When were you last drug tested?
3. You do realize that the Department does what Rahm says and not the other way around?

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• (3) - Philadelphia
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Labels: city politics

• Two men are dead, and two others were wounded Thursday in shootings on the South and West sides, Chicago police said.
  
  The fatal attacks happened Thursday morning in the Lawndale and Greater Grand Crossing neighborhoods.
  
  Shortly after 10 a.m., a person on a bicycle pulled a rifle from a backpack and fatally shot a 32-year-old man who was who was sitting in a vehicle in the 1300 block of South Troy Street.

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• More than 14 years after he skipped out on his federal drug conspiracy trial, ex-Chicago police Sgt. Eddie Hicks was back Thursday in a courtroom at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse following his arrest last month in Detroit.
  
  Hicks, 68, was led into U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Martin’s courtroom in an orange jail jumpsuit with a thin, graying goatee and shackles clanking around his ankles. He spoke only to say, "Yes, your honor," when the judge asked him if he understood the proceedings.
  
  A 29-year veteran of the police force, Hicks was charged in Chicago in 2001 with running a crew of rogue officers who robbed drug dealers, pocketed the illicit cash and sold the stolen drugs to other pushers.

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• Only in Chicago.
  
  On Tuesday, a Chicago Police officer and a retired Chicago police officer both took the Fifth Amendment — declining to testify so as not to incriminate themselves — in two separate courtrooms in two separate cases.
  
  What a sad commentary on the Chicago Police Department. What a sad reminder that reform of the police department must continue full bore, with federal judicial oversight.

• [the officers] ...declined to testify or repeatedly said, "I don’t recall."

• During depositions for the case, Daley answered "I don't recall" 139 times.

• Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.

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• The civilian panel that oversees the Los Angeles Police Department approved a drone pilot program Tuesday -- several months after the department first presented what it called a limited plan to use the technology.
  
  Approval of the program by the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners came despite opposition from activists who consider the technology a threat to civil liberties and after only 6 percent of the 1,675 emails the LAPD received about the program expressed support for it.
  
  [...]
  
  According to the guidelines the Police Commission approved, drones would be used in a limited capacity, including high-risk tactical operations, barricaded armed suspect responses, hostage rescues, and situations involving threats of exposure to hazardous materials and the need to detect explosive devices.
  
  The drones would not be weaponized or used during surveillance, and their use would have be approved on a case-by-case basis. The commission also added several more amendments before the final vote, including that facial recognition technology would not be used on the drones.

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• Promotion - Dwayne Betts from CMDR - 015 to Dep Chief of CAPS
  Lateral - Eric Washington from Dep Chief of CAPS to Dep Chief of IAD
  Lateral - Darren Doss from CMDR 003 to XO (CMDR) of Special Functions
  Promotion - Ernest Cato from Lt 015 to CMDR 015
  Promotion - Gloria Hanna from Lt. 015 to CMDR 003
  Promotion - Randall Darlin from Capt (XO) 007 to CMDR 009
  Lateral - Stephen Chung from CMDR 009 to CMDR 012

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• Hey SCC, Looks like an "untouchable" residing out of town is going to be named commander. How you ask? Nothing as simple as a wedding dress. Two houses. Live in LaGrange, own a second house in Garfield Ridge. Have your kids attend [omitted] and have your spouse tell everyone who'll listen how you've scammed the system for years. IAD refuses to investigate where he lays his head.

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• Two aviation security officers have been fired — and a suspended officer has resigned — for their roles in the April 9 passenger dragging fiasco aboard United Airlines Flight 3411.
  
  The final resolution of disciplinary action recommended by Inspector General Joe Ferguson is included in Ferguson’s quarterly report, released Tuesday.
  
  As always, the names of the fired employees were withheld. They were identified only as an aviation security officer and a sergeant.

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• If you could go to your bank for a loan offering to transfer ownership of your future income to make sure the bank got repaid, it would give you a lower rate. That would be reckless, however, and probably illegal.
  
  But that's basically what Illinois recently authorized Chicago and other home rule municipalities to do. Hidden in the state's 756-page budget implementation bill is authorization for Illinois cities and towns to borrow a new way—by transferring to bondholders full ownership of future tax revenue that flows from the state to municipalities, which is an essential public asset.
  
  Chicago is moving quickly toward using that authority for a 3ドル billion bond issue to be backed by conveying 660ドル million a year in city sales tax revenue for 40 years. Other municipalities likely will follow.

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• The future Navy Pier flyover is over budget and a year behind schedule, according to a report.
  
  While the first two phases of the long-planned Downtown bike path are set to open next year, the flyover won't be ready in full till 2019, a year later than advertised, said Mike Claffey, a spokesman for the city's Department of Transportation.
  
  And the years-long construction project is now expected to exceed its original 60ドル million price tag.
  
  "We just know that there is going to be more work than originally anticipated," Claffey said.

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• After years of litigation over the 2012 firing of a single Cook County sheriff’s police officer, dozens of other officers, jail guards and courtroom deputies fired for misconduct could get their jobs back, and hundreds more suspended without pay could be in line for possibly six-figure payouts.
  
  The state Supreme Court last month declined to consider an appeal of a lower court ruling that found Sheriff Tom Dart and the Cook County Board improperly appointed members to the Sheriff’s Merit Board, which hands out firings and suspensions for sheriff’s sworn personnel.
  
  The decision raises questions about hundreds of disciplinary cases brought by Dart, who has aggressively filed charges against officers, deputies and guards during his nearly 10 years in office. The ruling has caused an "administrative and bureaucratic mess" that might take years to unravel, said Cara Smith, Dart’s chief policy officer.
  
  The ruling affects cases that date back at least until 2011, and the sheriff’s and state’s attorney’s offices are researching whether earlier board appointments could affect even more cases, Smith said.

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• Despite Chicago’s alarming, if select, murder statistics and routine singling out by President Donald Trump for gun violence, this lakeside metropolis was just ranked one of the safest cities in the world.
  
  The Economist Intelligence Unit, a London-based research firm affiliated with the Economist magazine, named Chicago to its 2017 Safe Cities Index, issued Thursday — one of only three US cities to crack the top 20 — largely based on advances in digital security.
  
  The annual ranking assesses 60 global cities using four factors: personal safety, health security, digital security and the safety of infrastructure.

Labels: general

• NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell signaled last week that a change in policy regarding standing for the national anthem would be approved by team owners at the annual fall meeting next week.
  
  But the players and their allies in the media pushed back -- hard. Now it appears that Goodell and the players union will codify a policy that will allow kneeling or any other protest during the playing of the anthem. And the league will justify it by using the NFL brand as a "platform to both raise awareness and make progress on issues of social justice and equality in this country."
  
  In other words, a total, complete cave to the players.

• Fans booed New Orleans Saints players who knelt before the presentation of the American flag and the singing of the national anthem Sunday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
  
  The boos rang down during a moment of silence for fallen NOPD officer Marcus McNeil, who was killed in the line of duty Friday.

Labels: out-of-state, sports

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Labels: we got nothing

• Mayor Rahm Emanuel will dedicate about 27ドル.4 million to Chicago Police reform in his 2018 budget proposal, as the city continues rehabbing the beleaguered department’s image in the wake of the Laquan McDonald shooting scandal and a scathing Justice Department probe.
  
  "With this investment, the city of Chicago is making a down payment on police reform," Emanuel said in a statement Friday, less than a week before his annual budget address to the City Council.
  
  The 24ドル million jump in funding compared to last year is set aside for "enhanced training, reform implementation, officer wellness and community policing," according to the mayor’s office, which didn’t specify where the funding will come from, other than to say it’s part of the city’s full spending package.

Labels: city politics, money questions

• Cynthia and John Trevillion, both longtime teachers at the Chicago Waldorf School in Rogers Park, were trying to catch a train at the Morse CTA station, a few blocks from their home, to meet up with friends Friday night.
  
  At the sound of rapid gunshots, John quickly dropped to the ground. But Cynthia, 64, didn’t make it in time. She was fatally hit in the head and pronounced dead at Presence St. Francis Hospital in Evanston just before 7:20 p.m. An autopsy Saturday determined she died of a gunshot wound to the head and neck and her death was ruled a homicide, officials said.

• She was a teacher, walking with her husband, and was slaughtered in Chicago's gang wars that City Hall can't stop. Squabbling with Trump gives City Hall cover and makes for news. But people are dying. Forget the politics. Do your jobs. Mayor Emanuel, your first job is to keep order. hundreds of murders, thousands of shootings, most unsolved. that's not order. that's how cities die.
• The mayor's office wants you to call it gun violence. That suits City Hall politicians. But it is gang violence. And the bloody street gang wars that City Hall can't control claimed another innocent life. 64 year old woman walking toward the "L" in Rogers Park when they opened fire. "They just shot that girl like it was nothing," a witness told the Chicago Tribune. "I can’t believe what I just saw." Believe it. Wake up Chicago
• Enough.And don't blame this on cops. We've told the cops through various means, most of it political and ugly, to stay in their cars. This is on the politicians. City Hall, either do something or go.

Labels: crime, media

• A spokesman for the Chicago Police Department said Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson briefly fainted at an event for law enforcement Friday.
  
  Spokesman [...] said while Johnson was at an event in Springfield, he briefly experienced lightheadedness and fell on stage. Johnson got up and was taken to an area hospital for a routine evaluation.
  
  Doctor determined the spell was caused by Johnson's blood pressure medication, which was taken without eating.

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• OT...but Interesting.
  
  I work in City Hall (Oh...Not a Cop btw..) and noticed the Department of Finance take in a rather large delivery of Bullet Proof vests from Point Blank Inc.
  
  Are they getting ready to arm the damn PEA's and Booters?

Labels: rumors

• Shot & Killed: 517
  Shot & Wounded: 2479
  Total Shot: 2996
  Total Homicides: 556

• The citizenry is now tied with the police for the most justifiable homicides this year with 10 each.

• Police say the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Pleasure Cardell Singleton Jr. was a case of self-defense, and the woman who shot him will not be charged.
  
  The woman shot Singleton after he stabbed her multiple times Thursday afternoon in a domestic fight in his West Side Lawndale neighborhood home, Chicago Police said.
  
  About 4:05 p.m. Oct. 5, Singleton, a father of three, was shot in the chest after he stabbed the 25-year-old woman multiple times in the 4000 block of West 21st Street, police said.

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• Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office opposes the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the death of a man fatally shot by a Chicago police officer six years ago, court records show.
  
  Flint Farmer was unarmed when he was shot and killed by then-Officer [GS] in June 2011 in an on-duty incident captured in part by a police dashboard camera. The Chicago Tribune broke the story that fall after learning the Farmer shooting was [GS]'s third — and second fatal one — in a six-month span.
  
  [...]
  
  In a written response, the state’s attorney’s office revealed that prosecutors re-investigated the Farmer case after Foxx won election and again found that there was not enough evidence to support charges against [GS].
  
  Prosecutors also rejected Farmer’s claim that an inherent conflict of interest exists when prosecutors investigate police-involved shootings — a position Foxx supported on the campaign trail.
  
  But since taking office in December, Foxx has implemented new "protocols" to ensure that police shootings are reviewed in "an expeditious and thorough manner," the filing said.

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• Vowing to step up the city's efforts get Chicago's exploding rat population under control, Mayor Rahm Emanuel Friday proposed spending an additional 1ドル million to get rid of the disease-ridden vermin.
  
  That budget boost will allow the city to add five crews of workers charged with reducing the number of disease-ridden critters scurrying through Chicago's streets and alleys, officials said. That will bring the number of rat control crews to 30 in 2018, officials said.
  
  In the spring of 2016, the city had eight rat control crews, records show.

Labels: money questions

• Another Thursday come and gone and CompStat was a rousing success.
  
  In attendance were all sorts of Chiefs, Deputy Chiefs, and Commanders.
  
  Also just about every XO in the city, who either had hours adjusted or received overtime, not to mention Lietenants working out of grade a Commanding Officers.
  
  Countless Lieutenants, including one from every watch for the District/Area up for review. That's a whole bunch of overtime since each got around 4 hours.
  
  And then there's the "statistic people" in every front office racking up Overtime to get binders full of info for the meetings and produce a lot of paperwork, all of which will be filed, stored or shredded, never to be seen again - it takes a lot of overtime to compile all those binders.

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Labels: sarcasm AND silliness, sports

• Police rushed to the scene of what they thought was an active shooter in West Town on Wednesday morning — only to learn the incident was a drill.
  
  About 8:30 a.m., officers were called to a health center in the 1700 block of West Superior Street because there were reports of an active shooter, said Chicago Police Department spokesman [...]. Multiple calls were made to 911 about the shooter, [...], but once officers arrived they learned the incident was a drill.
  
  The Police Department wasn't consulted about the drill....

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