Second City Cop

• A yearlong review has found that the Chicago Police Department must overhaul the way it investigates homicides, from finding better detectives to keeping better track of their work, if it hopes to improve its dismal clearance rate and reduce violent crime.

• The Police Executive Research Forum found some detectives do not even know how many cases they were assigned in the past year. It also found that the department offers nothing to witnesses who feel threatened, does not pay enough attention to shootings that are not fatal and must wait up to a year for crucial DNA test results. And it noted that homicide sergeants and lieutenants are currently not required to have experience investigating homicides.

Labels: department issues

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• Rumor: And not a rumor at all. Actually confirmed by a source at City Hall.
  
  A Certain CPD Superintendents personal vehicle is on the Boot List.

Labels: rumors

• I'm not sure how many are aware of this but apparently Streets and Sans is contracting out street sweeping services to Elgin Sweeping Services Inc. Below are notices at blocks of 6100 W. Gunnison and 4300 N. Austin. More privatization of city jobs under the radar!

Labels: city politics

• Units all across the city were all ordered to rush down to McCormick place today to pick up credential s that they never needed, because they never attended the conference, the question is why?

• Was just told that the attendance was 800 persons. shot for setting an attendance record so the push to get people to register is for bragging rights by the mayors office

Labels: corruption

• Mayor Lori Lightfoot campaigned on a promise to raise the boot threshold, stop booting for non-moving violations and eliminate a hefty chunk of red light cameras at 149 intersections if those cameras were used for revenue — not safety. The City Council has already approved the first installment of Lightfoot’s plan to go easier on scofflaws at a first-year cost of 15ドル million.
  
  Against that backdrop, the latest numbers on booting and ticketing should come as no surprise. Based on the first six months of this year, the city is on a pace to write 13.4% fewer parking tickets; 2.28 million tickets were issued during 2018, compared to 988,404 written through June 30 of this year.
  
  Booting is headed for an 8% decline — from 59,817 during all of 2018 to 27,529 during the first six months of 2019.

Labels: city politics, money questions

• Why is the superintendent given a pass on showing his "personal beliefs" but if a regular officer wears anything political, they are suspended? You can’t have it both ways. Either officers are freely allowed to show their political preferences in uniform and on duty or they are not. The superintendent was being political in uniform, on duty, and in front of the whole nation. Suspension coming his way?

• one for regular cops
• one for white shirts
• one for connected cops

Labels: department issues

• In a speech to police chiefs from across the country, President Donald Trump on Monday criticized Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson for skipping the event, saying "more than anyone else, this person should be here, because maybe he could learn something."
  
  Johnson last week said he would not attend the president’s speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference at McCormick Place, "because the values of the people of Chicago are more important than anything that he would have to say."
  
  "That’s a very insulting statement after all I’ve done for the police, and I’ve done more than any other president’s ever done for the police," Trump said. "Here’s a man that could not bother to show up for a meeting of police chiefs, the most respected people in the country, in his hometown, and with the president of the United States, and you know why. It’s because he’s not doing his job."

• It was the FOP 7 Lodge President.

Labels: general

• Pussle willingham is at it again. The four time merit hack came into roll call and told us he just talked to the commander, who’s in Virginia for training. Pussel said, according to the commander, we have no idea what we’re in for when comes back from training. He’s been keeping up on everything happening in 007 and the blog.
  
  Well, this should be interesting.

Labels: department issues

• State Rep. Luis Arroyo, a Chicago Democrat, has been charged with allegedly offering 2,500ドル a month in bribes to support electronic sweepstakes-related legislation to a state senator who wore a wire for the feds and secretly recorded conversations, according to a criminal complaint released Monday.
  
  "I’m going to give this you here," Arroyo allegedly said during a meeting in August with the state senator, identified by a source as Vernon Hills Democrat Terry Link, at a restaurant in Skokie as Arroyo allegedly passed him the first bribe.
  
  "This is, this is, this is the jackpot," Arroyo said, according to the criminal complaint.

Labels: corruption, state politics

• I was told by two PO's who say they have First Hand Knowledge that the Commander for VRI, "Crystal-King Smith" is "Not Approving Overtime" worked by Any officers who she discovers has either Failed to Swipe Out, or who does so any earlier than 0023 hrs. even though your Sgt. may have already Approved the Overtime...
  
  Apparently some PO's have been affected by this?

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• In light of a new report from a retired federal judge, the Chicago Police Department has agreed to find new ways to make sure that investigatory street stops by officers adhere to the Fourth Amendment.
  
  After reviewing paperwork on nearly 8,000 street stops conducted by CPD officers in 2017, retired U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys found that there was a "broad-based failure by Department members to accurately report all ISR [investigatory stop report] data."
  
  For example, if an officer failed to fully describe the Reasonable Articulable Suspicion — "RAS" — that prompted the street stop in their ISR, supervisors would return the report to the officer and allow them to make changes to it, "in contravention of Department Directives ... and in violation of the Fourth Amendment’s articulation requirement," Keys wrote.

• IT'S A TRAINING ISSUE, NOT AN EFFORT TO CIRCUMVENT THE LAW

Labels: department issues

• A woman was killed early Saturday, when an SUV crashed into McCormick Place and caught fire, while apparently racing another car.
  
  Police and fire officials said the dark-colored SUV was speeding north on King Drive when it crashed into the convention center at 2301 S. King Dr. shortly after 5:30 a.m.
  
  The vehicle caught fire after the crash, and the 29-year-old woman inside was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.

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• Anonymous said...
  
  OT: CONFIRMED from City Hall-Lori saw the body worn camera the day the story of Johnson’s DUI broke. She was shocked because it’s obvious Johnson is a lush but she’s pulling a Rahm move of "I had to let the investigation play out and I didn’t see the video" so she can make Johnson attack Trump. What a petty bitch. Jokes on her-a dozen people or more now have the video, and Johnsons attack on Trump will backfire on Lori. Popcorn time. You an amateur Groot.

Labels: rumors

• A police chief had her personal items stolen downtown while visiting Chicago for an international police chiefs conference Friday, according to Chicago police sources.
  
  The victim, a 55-year-old woman from Virginia was sitting in an establishment in the 500 block of North Wabash around 6:30 p.m. when she had her personal belongings swiped, Chicago police say.

Labels: crime, sarcasm AND silliness

• So, Eddie Johnson, superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, says he will give it a miss on Monday when President Trump addresses a gathering of police chiefs in the Windy City. "The values of the people of Chicago are more important than anything that he would have to say," Johnson’s spokesman said in explaining the planned absence.
  
  [...]
  
  Returning now to Eddie Johnson and the state of affairs at the Chicago Police Department. Johnson’s choice to absent himself from President Trump’s speech is being hailed in some quarters as a principled stand against the president’s rhetorical excesses, but in reality, it’s nothing more than a cheap political gesture in a city that voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. (It’s interesting to note that the only Chicago neighborhood to vote for Trump in 2016, Mount Greenwood, on the South Side, is among the safest in an otherwise very violent city. Make of that what you will.)
  
  There is also the possibility that Johnson’s snub of the president is an attempt to cloak himself with some cheap grace at a time he may be needing it. At about 12:30 a.m. on Oct. 17, Johnson was found passed out in the driver’s seat of his car while stopped at a Chicago intersection. Johnson attributed his condition to a change in his blood pressure medication, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Johnson later admitted to her he had had "a couple of drinks with dinner."

Labels: general

• A solution for the recent issue of ISR’s being revised multiple times, in violation of the consent decree, has been thrown around — have a Sgt on scene for ALL street stops requiring an ISR. The details are in the preliminary stage, but basically a Sgt would be required to approve probable cause on scene. If everything appears legitimate, they’re on their way. If the reason for the stop is questionable, the stop would be terminated immediately. A sgt would also sign the ISR receipt the same way they’d sign a TSSS card.
  
  This isn’t certain, but just be prepared Sgts. You are going to be responsible for the stops under your command one way or another.

Labels: department issues, rumors

• Cancelling a day off ought to be double time, not time-and-one-half;
• 2nd and 3rd watch personnel are all working days at 0500 hours? That a shift of more than two hours for everyone on third watch. There should be an additional penalty for every hour moved;
• Area North Districts have to report to Area North, Area South Central and South Districts to Sox Park. Any bid officer working outside their District of bid ought to be be getting additional premium pay;

Labels: contract stuff, FOP

• If it "isn't about the money" as so many of the CTU people claim, how about Groot takes 7% of the proposed 16% and apply it to the pensions that teachers don't pay into? Then they can take 9% raises, similar to what the FOP is about to get.

• a 16% increase in graduation rates?
• perhaps 16% increases in reading and math scores?

Labels: we got nothing

• We’ve shared more than a few outrageous stories about what some people have allegedly done while free on "affordable bail" in Chicago. Few reach the level achieved by 18-year-old Randy Wilson.
  
  Long story short, prosecutors say Wilson shot a teenager while on electronic monitoring for robbery, then went AWOL from the court system, and subsequently threatened another man with a gun before cops caught up with him. Did we mention that when police arrested him for the robbery, he already had an electronic monitoring bracelet on his ankle for yet another case? He did.

Labels: county, un-fucking-believable

• #1 Chicago
• #2 Los Angeles
• #3 New York City
• #4 Washington, DC
• #5 San Francisco

Labels: sarcasm AND silliness

• Read at roll call in a westside district...Please give teachers cars parking courtesy while they're striking! Lol, ain't that some shit!! CPD gets held over the fire for parking in questionable spots while ON DUTY, going to court etc. Yet we're supposed to give "courtesy" to a bunch of whiners who hate the police?? They have some nerve to ask for anything from us, already asking for the World with their contract demands. If I had a ticket book I'd write the bunch of them! Not only are you not getting paid, but now you're gonna Pay!

Labels: un-fucking-believable

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• As Chicago Public Schools announced the cancellation of a seventh day of classes, hundreds of striking educators and support staff filled the auditorium at the Chicago Teachers Union’s headquarters Thursday to receive civil disobedience training.
  
  The training session signals that members of the CTU and SEIU Local 73 are planning to escalate their aggressive demonstration efforts — and potentially face arrest. During the presentation, led by an SEIU Healthcare executive and a staffer for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, the strikers were coached on blocking traffic and shutting down building lobbies.

Labels: dumb ideas

• The video from 9**R clearly shows #FatHeadEd out cold. Takes a minute to get him up and alert. Only the business officer activates his BWC, and truthfully, I don’t believe either officer knows it’s the Superintendent. When #FatHeadEd wakes up, he’s disoriented and has some difficulty pulling his wallet out of his pocket. He rolls down the window about an inch (typical for the #1 law enforcement officer of the City) to respond to the officers request for his ID (after showing his star). The young officer realizes he’s the Sup, asks if he’s ok and #FatHeadEd replies "yeah".
  
  Officer walks away and poof #FatHeadEd is gone. CFD was on scene almost immediately. Additional units on scene, including 9** (who followed him to his final destination).
  
  An interesting twist to this debacle is that BIA and the IG waited over 24hrs to attempt to garner the in-car-camera video stored on the cars drives. Somehow, it had all been written over by the time they got to it. I wonder if they got the POD cameras or the restaurant cameras??
  
  [...] The cover up is always worse than the crime #FatHeadEd. So many more questions, than answers!"

Labels: scandals

• The Board of Directors of the Fraternal Order of Police — the union representing rank-and-file Chicago police officers — issued a vote of no confidence in CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson Wednesday.
  
  The vote came just a day after the union sharply criticized the superintendent’s decision to skip a speech that President Donald Trump is set to deliver at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Chicago on Monday. Johnson said Tuesday that he "will not be attending the presidents’ remarks because the values of the people of Chicago are more important to me than anything that could be said in the speech."
  
  In a brief statement issued Wednesday, the FOP said: "The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 Board of Directors today issued a vote of no confidence against Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson."

Labels: department issues

• A Chicago police officer who fired dozens of times at a fleeing teenager in 2011 should lose his job over the fatal shooting, but will only serve a monthlong suspension, according to a report from the department’s oversight agency that reverses a ruling made by the department two years after the shooting.
  
  Officer Macario Chavez and two fellow officers were cleared of wrongdoing in the shooting death of 19-year-old Calvin Cross after an investigation by the now-defunct Independent Police Review Authority in 2013. Chavez fired a total of 31 shots — 28 from an assault rifle— as he and two partners on a South Side tactical unit chased Cross through a residential neighborhood in West Pullman.
  
  The investigation was reopened in 2016 after a revamp of IPRA amid the fallout of the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald. In June, IPRA’s successor agency, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, ruled Chavez violated department policy by firing multiple shots with a high-powered rifle at Cross as the teen sprinted through a residential neighborhood, and that the final volleys of shots Chavez fired as Cross lay prone on the ground — and perhaps dead— were unjustified.

Labels: department issues

• A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the lawsuit against actor Jussie Smollett will not be dismissed.
  
  The suit asks that Smollett reimburse the police department the 130,000ドル spent on investigating his alleged attack, which he asked to be dismissed because he couldn't have known how much time and money was spent on the investigation.
  
  In January, Smollett claimed that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago, but the Chicago Police Department is adamant that there is a mountain of evidence that shows Smollett staged the attack with two brothers he knew.
  
  After nearly 1,900 hours of investigation, Smollett was charged with filing a false report. Those charges were dropped in March, despite claims from Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson that Smollett "took advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career."

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• Did fauxcahontas visit FOP to show her support for our labor struggle?

Labels: national politics

• Anonymous said...Hey SCC - 025 correspondents here. You should know Escamerit is going bat-shit crazy the last couple days. Apparently no one explained to him what a hostile work environment is. He spent all of yesterday calling people into his office, screaming at them, and then throwing them out of his office. Tuesday his secretary was seen running out the back door with tears in her eyes. The place is ready to explode. He has no friends left and is taking it out on all of us! Hey Mayor Lightfoot - can you please get this clown out of here!

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• Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson will be hosting the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in town next week, but he’s going to skip President Donald Trump’s speech, according to a spokesman.
  
  "While the superintendent is looking forward to leading the International Chiefs of Police Conference and he’s looking forward to participating in discussions about making our communities safer, he will not be attending the speech of the president because the values of the people of Chicago are more important to him than anything the president has to say," police spokesman Anthony [Google-me] told the Tribune on Tuesday.

• averaging five hundred homicides a year?
• averaging nearly three thousand shootings?
• abandoning the Rule of Law, particularly border security?
• driving drunk with a transplanted kidney?
• an aldermanic incarceration rate that rivals any kleptocracy?

Labels: dumb ideas

• No investment in policing, including an academy to better train the police;
• eliminate "incentives" to ticket and arrest (we have those?)
• a board of elected mopes with no idea how to police running the department
• all sorts of money for those released from prison
• anti-ICE crap
• weed for everyone!

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• That call became a crucial piece of evidence in a trial that ended Tuesday with the conviction of the two Chicago police officers, who were accused of using bogus information to secure search warrants used to then steal cash and drugs.
  
  Both officers faced five counts each — including conspiracy, theft and obstruction of justice charges — and jurors found them guilty across the board after a trial that lasted roughly two weeks. Salgado was also convicted of lying to the FBI.
  
  The jury deliberated for roughly five hours Tuesday. Each officer potentially faces several years in prison, and sentencing has been set for Jan. 23.

Labels: corruption

• The investigation into CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson stemming from his being found slumped behind the wheel of his car last week is now in the hands of the city inspector general, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday.
  
  Lightfoot was asked about the status of Chicago’s top cop after an unrelated news conference in the Austin neighborhood.
  
  Johnson asked the department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs to open its own investigation into the incident, which occurred early Thursday.
  
  Reporters asked Lightfoot about that investigation, and whether she had concluded it was time for Johnson — who was appointed by her predecessor, Rahm Emanuel — to go.
  
  Citing that ongoing investigation, Lightfoot declined further comment.

• Police and Chicago Fire Department personnel responded to the scene, and Johnson was able to drive himself home, according to police.

Labels: scandals

• Shootings across the city of Chicago this past weekend left four people dead and at least another 37 people wounded.
  
  According to Chicago Police Department Spokesperson Anthony [Google-me], this has been the city's most violent weekend since Labor Day weekend.

Labels: crime, stats

• Part 1 - no, yes, yes
• Part 2 - no, yes, yes, yes
• Part 3 - no, yes, no
• Part 4 - no, yes, yes

Labels: sarcasm AND silliness

• The Civilian Complaint Review Board is so anti-cop that it is now accusing highly decorated officers of misconduct — even when no complaints are filed against them, police sources told The Post.
  
  NYPD Lt. Richard Vetrano and Detective Thomas Woods were subjected to an administrative trial after a bystander at a traffic stop sent the CCRB video of a 2014 incident — in which even the couple involved repeatedly refused to file a complaint.
  
  The CCRB still undertook a probe and ruled the stop improper, citing a lack of reasonable suspicion, the sources said.
  
  "The result is two highly decorated cops — a detective and a lieutenant — were given charges by [the] CCRB," a source said.
  
  Another source said, "The fact that both occupants had no interest in making a complaint didn’t seem to deter them."

Labels: department issues

• A would-be robber who was wounded by a security guard at a Southwest Side Taco Bell over the weekend had been trying to rob the business with an unloaded handgun when the security officer stepped in, authorities said.
  
  Authorities were called to the fast-food restaurant in the 7900 block of South Western Avenue in the Wrightwood neighborhood on the city’s South Side about 9:50 p.m. Saturday. There, a 26-year-old man had been shot by a 33-year-old security guard, according to police spokeswoman Karie James.
  
  Officials said the 26-year-old "announced a robbery" before the security guard opened fire, hitting the 26-year-old in the right arm. The man was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition had been stabilized, police said in their initial news release.
  
  In front of a Cook County judge Sunday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, prosecutors said Antonio Brickell tried robbing the business with a 9 mm handgun that wasn’t loaded with a magazine.

Labels: general

• Two Chicago police officers and two paramedics were hurt when a police cruiser slammed into an ambulance Saturday night as authorities were responding to a shooting that left three teenagers wounded at a party in Homan Square.

Labels: officer injured

Labels: safety issues

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• Walgreens is closing its store in the South Side’s Calumet Heights neighborhood next month as it shutters 200 stores nationwide, officials confirmed. Customers, including frustrated residents, learned of the impending closure from employees last week. The store, 2011 E. 95th St., is set to close Nov. 11.
  
  Residents frustrated over the closing of their neighborhood Walgreens will have a chance to sound off at a community meeting called by Ald. Greg Mitchell (7th) at 6 p.m. Thursday at his 7th Ward service office, 2249 E. 95th St.
  
  [...]
  
  "Why is it always stores in black neighborhoods that are closing? You’re not going to see stores close like this in Lincoln Park," said Alcaraz, who has lived in the neighborhood for more than a decade. "We live in an area that’s aging out. There are a lot of seniors that depend on their prescriptions. This is unacceptable."

Labels: silly people

Labels: crime, stats

• Anonymous said...I heard the caller was another F/1 Officer who was another one of Robin Robinson’s merit picks who was upset she didn’t make Sgt on this past list
• Anonymous said...Nobody has mentioned anything about the witness who called this in

Labels: department issues, scandals

• Mayor Lori Lightfoot says CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson had 'a couple of drinks' before medical episode

• The city’s top cop remains under scrutiny two days after he was found at a stoplight slumped over in his vehicle.
  
  He had no scheduled public events Saturday.
  
  But the mayor was out and she says Superintendent Eddie Johnson will remain in his job while the investigation is carried out.

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• Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson admitted to Mayor Lori Lightfoot that he had "a couple of drinks" Wednesday night before he fell asleep in his car after pulling over when he felt ill, the mayor told the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday.
  
  The new detail came a day after Johnson went public about the incident and called for an investigation on himself by the department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs.
  
  In remarks to reporters Thursday night, Johnson blamed the incident on his failure to take his blood pressure medication.

Labels: scandals

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• An electronic message board along Lake Shore Drive near Soldier Field was changed overnight to read, "Kill cops," according to Chicago police.
  
  The vandalism was reported about 6:20 a.m. Friday, but police spokeswoman Karie James said it was not known how long it had been up. The sign had been altered manually by a keyboard, not hacked electronically, she said.
  
  "Several inappropriate messages" may have been displayed, but the police were called after the "Kill cops" message appeared, according to police spokeswoman Sally Bown.
  
  "It’s just awful," Bown said. "It’s extremely harmful to our officers and it’s not funny."
  
  [...]
  
  "It could just be really serendipitous," she said. "Until they find somebody, it’s pure speculation."

• ser·en·dip·i·tous
  
  adjective: serendipitous
  
  occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

Labels: silly people

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Labels: scandals

• being called to the scene of a violent mental and
• reacting within the bounds of training and
• within existing Use of Force models and
• accidentally shooting a bystander who was hidden from view

• Robbery in progress? Hope you've got insurance
• Burglary? Same thing
• Person with a gun? If we take our time, maybe they'll be gone
• Violent mental? Good luck - we'll be there - eventually

Labels: un-fucking-fucking-believable

• he experienced a medical episode, but following a nap, he drove himself home?
• since when does a sergeant, lieutenant, captain and commander show up for a non-ambulance medical "emergency"?
• No one did Special Ed a favor and drove him home?
• IAD is going to run an investigation? The same IAD that had six sergeants all score in the top ten and make the first class of lying lieutenants? The same IAD than ran an illegal First Amendment investigation of this site? The same IAD that covered up the shooting of a special needs child by a sergeant? We could go on for days.....
• And "complete investigation" would require an Administrative blow - how is that going to happen now?
• Why are there two sergeants and half-a-dozen investigators at the IAD Confidential this very moment combing through 009 District body cameras? You think we didn't notice?

Labels: corruption, scandals, un-fucking-believable

Labels: department issues

• Last Wednesday, Area North detectives issued a community alert about a robbery pattern in Logan Square. Chicago police release similar warnings dozens of times every month.
  
  But the Logan Square warning was unique. An armed man, police said, had shoplifted from the exact same Walgreen’s location and then threatened store employees with a weapon three separate times in three weeks.
  
  [...]
  
  These incidents are not isolated.
  
  A CWBChicago examination of Chicago Police Department data found that retail theft cases are up sharply in recent years across the city and in its busiest shopping corridors.
  
  The increase comes as Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx makes a public effort to back away from retail theft prosecutions. Attorneys in Foxx’s office are instructed to not pursue felony charges against shoplifting suspects unless the value of the pilfered merchandise exceeds 1,000ドル. That’s three times the 300ドル felony threshold set by state law.
  
  Since Foxx was elected in March 2016, retail theft reports are up 20% across the city. Along the posh Rush Street shopping district, reported incidents have more than doubled. And on State Street, famed in movie and song for its shopping opportunities, retail theft cases are up 32%.

Labels: crime, dumb ideas

• Did anyone in media did any homework on that guy? Arrested 72 times, multiple convictions including resisting police. If that’s not enough, just few weeks ago he was arrested for... waiting for it - Robbery ! Who let that shithead out on bond?
  
  Now you can go and dig deeper

Labels: crime

• OT: I got a friend on the SWAT team and please listen to this. The guys started complaining trough email that they haven’t trained in OVER A YEAR and that it is a big officer safety issue for swat and patrol as well. They are not meeting their training standards and the guys performance dropped dramatically. They are not even qualified with their rifles. It is supposed to be biannually and they haven’t even qualified once this year. Here is the KICKER:::::: Their boss told everyone that all emails sent trough department email have to be approved by a sergeant. The reason is because they are Discoverable and inflammatory to the department. This is so f....d up.

Labels: department issues

Labels: crime, stats

• Boston man Jean-Paul LaPierre, who caught a Blue Line train Sunday morning to the Chicago Marathon, said he didn’t hesitate to act when he heard someone was robbing people on the train.
  
  "I don’t like people that strike fear in people like that," he said. "I don’t like bullies."
  
  A man boarded the train about 5:50 a.m. and showed a handgun to passengers while demanding their money in the 5800 block of North Cumberland Avenue, Chicago police said.
  
  "He was very quietly robbing people," LaPierre said. "I went up front and said to him, give me the gun and we started fighting for the gun."

Labels: crime

• Exelon Utilities CEO Anne Pramaggiore abruptly retired Tuesday amid a wide-ranging federal investigation that includes the company’s lobbying activities at the Illinois State Capitol.
  
  The announcement of Pramaggiore’s retirement came less than a week after Exelon and ComEd acknowledged they had received a second subpoena in the probe. Authorities were looking for "communications" between the companies and state Sen. Martin Sandoval, a Chicago Democrat whose home and offices were raided by FBI agents last month.
  
  In addition, the Illinois Senate was served with a search warrant late last month. The lengthy list of things authorities searched for included "items related to ComEd, Exelon, any employee, officer or representative of any of those businesses, Exelon Official A, Exelon Official B, Exelon Official C, Exelon Official D, and/or any issue supported by any of those businesses or individuals, including, but not limited to, rate increases."

Labels: corruption, state politics

• Stop writing to the blog
• you're hurting Rod's feelings
• "You don't know how good you have it here."

• You guys and gals in Englewood don't know how good everyone else has it NOT being in Englewood working for someone who thinks supervising by intimidation actually works in what's considered one of the three or four worst Districts in the Department.

Labels: department issues

• The four-month electric scooter pilot in Chicago, both celebrated and reviled by residents, comes to an end Tuesday.
  
  As of last week, people had taken 772,450 rides on electric scooters, according to the city’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection. That’s about 7,000 trips a day. The city’s goal for the program was to determine if scooters would improve transportation access, reduce single-occupancy car use and provide a way to get to and from public transit.
  
  Was it a success? It depends on how you measure it, and whom you ask.

• The city issued 39 citations to scooter companies, for problems ranging from not having a working front light to not responding to complaints. Of the 10 companies, only Lyft, which operates the city’s Divvy bike share system, received no citations. Lime was cited just once. Bird and Chicago-based VeoRide had the most, with seven each.

Labels: dumb ideas

• The theater continues as seen in this weekend's news articles:
  
  
• Mayor Lori Lightfoot, in a video posted to Twitter Monday afternoon, said she hoped the two sides could use Monday’s negotiations to "build on the progress that we’ve made and come together for the good of our teachers, our students and our city."
  
  Her message struck a conciliatory tone following a rocky 24 hours over the weekend that saw the two sides attack each other after an "angry" bargaining session Friday, then regroup for a "productive" meeting Saturday.

• The teachers walk out Thursday, just to prove they can do it. Why have a vote unless you can flex that muscle?
• After marching Thursday and Friday, "progress" happens Friday/Saturday and everyone goes back to school Monday.

Labels: general

• LAZ has no respect for CPD. Wrote tickets on uc cars working marathon even after I politely spoke with her and asked not to write them. I even pointed out the placards. Total disregard. She couldn't write fast enough and refused to wait for our bosses to contact her bosses.

Labels: we got nothing

• Leave it to California to introduce a policing "innovation" that makes Barney Fife look like Judge Dredd.
  
  When the Huntington Park Police Force rolled out "HP Robocop" in June of this year, it was heralded as a major step for public safety for its supposed ability to keep an extra pair of eyes on patrol without taking an officer off assignment.
  
  "This is a big accomplishment for our city and introducing HP RoboCop shows innovation and the incorporation of new technology," Mayor Karina Macias said at the robot’s introduction.

• RoboCop recently got its first test in the realities of policing, and the machine definitely didn’t live up to its imposing name. According to NBC News, when a fight broke out in Salt Lake Park, a bystander rushed to RoboCop and pushed the robot’s call button. Nothing happened.
  
  "I was pushing the button but it said, ‘step out of the way,’" Cogo Guebara said. "It just kept ringing and ringing, and I kept pushing and pushing."
  
  The woman figured it needed to scan a face, possibly a deterrent to prank alerts, and positioned herself in front of the robot’s camera to no effect. A woman with Guebara then used a cell phone to call 911, and first responders arrived 15 minutes later. By then, the fight had already ended and one woman was bleeding from a wound on her head. Despite the chaos, RoboCop continued to follow its pre-determined route.

Labels: out-of-state, sarcasm AND silliness

• "It’s a fact, Eddie Johnson was to be fired on Friday morning by the Mayor. He convinced LL/Claussen to give him till Tuesday to rally the Black Caucus in order to keep his job. He meets with them individually and promises various promotions on top of the disastrous promotions already made. His argument to the Black Caucus is "I’ve promoted more blacks than any other Superintendent in the history of CPD...you wanna reverse that...?". Hence this mornings impromptu press conference with the BC (and Irving as their mouthpiece)."

Labels: department issues

• On October 10, Tyler and Emma received the devastating news that Tyler has Stage 3 Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Because it’s an aggressive form, he has begun 96 continuous hours of chemotherapy. He’ll have two weeks off, before another 96 hours, then two weeks off. This excruciating process will go on for the next four months.
  
  Any help with meals, childcare, groceries, and housekeeping will be much needed and greatly appreciated.

Labels: events

• President Donald Trump, who has been attacking Chicago’s handling of crime for years, plans to make his first visit to Chicago as president on Oct. 28 for a high-dollar fundraiser and possibly a speech to a national convention of police chiefs.
  
  Trump hits the city for a lunch co-hosted by Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts, chairman of the combined fundraising efforts for the Trump 2020 campaign and the Republican National Committee. As of Friday, a source said the location has not been finalized; one possibility is Trump International Hotel & Tower, 401 N. Wabash Ave., or another downtown venue. Wrigley Field has been ruled out as a venue.

Labels: department issues, events

Labels: promotions

• A suspect is in custody Saturday in connection with a shooting that killed one person and wounded four others at an apartment in Dunning on the Northwest Side, police said.
  
  About 5:30 p.m., the five people at an apartment complex in the 6700 block of West Irving Park Road, according to preliminary information from Chicago police.
  
  Four adults were taken to hospitals in serious-to-critical condition and a fifth adult was pronounced dead at the scene, a Chicago Fire spokesman said.

Labels: crime

• Rod at it again. Came into roll call screaming about making traffic stops and not writing movers. He threw a fit and said if you pull over anyone, you ticket them! No of and or buts. Forget the blue cards! It’s against the law not to write them! ...then he stormed out of roll call.

Labels: scandals

• A woman identified by police as a "habitual stowaway" was arrested Friday night while attempting to get around a TSA checkpoint at O’Hare International Airport.
  
  Marilyn Hartman, 67, was charged Saturday with a felony count of criminal trespass to a registered area at an airport, Chicago police said.
  
  Hartman was taken into custody at O’Hare around 10 p.m. Friday after TSA officials spotted her "moving TSA lane dividers in an attempt to circumvent security," Chicago police said. She was already on probation for a 2018 incident in which she snuck onto a London-bound flight from O’Hare.
  
  Friday’s arrest is the latest in at least a dozen such incidents in which Hartman has attempted to sneak through airport security. When she was released from custody in January 2019, a Cook County judge repeatedly warned her to stay from O’Hare and Midway airports.

Labels: crime

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