Second City Cop

• With crowds expected to gather downtown for two planned fireworks displays, the Chicago Police Department plans to deploy about 1,300 additional officers across the city on New Years Eve.
  
  The majority of the extra officers will be in uniform to increase visibility, Fred Waller, CPD’s chief of the bureau of patrol, said Monday at a news conference.
  
  "We will also have plainclothes officers at events mingling within the crowds in a discreet manner to watch for public gatherings," Waller said.
  
  "Many of these officers have had their days off canceled to work on this important night," Waller added. "Officers from every district and every division will be pitching in this year."

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• An employee was shot and wounded Monday morning during an attempted robbery at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Dunning on the Northwest Side.
  
  A gunman walked into the business about 7:25 a.m. in the 7500 block of West Irving Park Road and demanded money from the front register, Chicago police said. A law enforcement source said it was a 7-Eleven.
  
  He shot an employee in his torso and left without taking any money, police said. The gunman wore a hooded sweatshirt with "space" written on the front.

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• Chicago police officers will be maintaining a "heightened awareness" of the city’s pot shops when the drug is legalized Wednesday , but they won’t be looking to ticket revelers for getting high outside.
  
  [...] Though the state legalization law prohibits individuals from sparking up in public, Chicago police officers have been directed to simply inform offenders of the new rules when they take effect instead of taking punitive actions. [Goggle-me] noted that officers are instead "interested in violence."
  
  Beat cops and narcotics officers will be on the lookout for individuals looking to rob dispensary patrons braving long lines to get their first taste of legal pot. Those customers make "attractive street robbery targets" because they’ll likely be carrying large amounts of weed and money near the largely cash-only businesses....

• In the upcoming weeks and months, [Google-deez-nuts] said, enforcement will shift to street-level dealers and gangs aiming to undercut the hefty dispensary prices. An eighth of an ounce of medical marijuana, subject to a 1% state pharmaceutical tax, typically costs around 60ドル at Illinois dispensaries. That price will be substantially higher for recreational users, who will soon face state taxes between 10% and 25% for pot products.
  
  Chicagoans can currently find an eighth of high-quality cannabis for as cheap as 30ドル on the street, according to Budzu, a website that aggregates weed prices.
  
  "Gangs are a business, they’re on top of these types of things," [Gargle-deez] said, adding that the push to offer the most competitive pot prices could potentially lead to a "turf battle." "It’s a supply and demand thing."

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• Illinois’ population decreased in 2019 by an estimated 51,250 people, or 0.4%, marking the sixth consecutive year the state has lost residents, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
  
  [...]
  
  Population losses in Illinois have been compounding since 2014, when the state began a steady, though not precipitous, decline. Illinois is the sixth-most-populous state in the nation, after California, Texas, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania, which passed Illinois in 2017. Ohio is seventh, followed by Georgia and North Carolina.
  
  As Illinois’ population has eroded, potentially weakening its political and economic power, the trend has become a frequent topic of political discussion.

Labels: state politics

• Too many families in two of America’s most dangerous cities — Baltimore and Chicago — will spend this holiday season in hospitals and funeral homes. Last weekend, the two cities saw more than 50 people shot and eight killed.
  
  The violence included two "mass shootings," defined as a single incident in which more than four people are shot. In Chicago, 13 people were wounded early Sunday morning at a party in the South Side neighborhood of Englewood. Soon after, seven were shot outside a downtown hookah lounge in Baltimore.
  
  Blame the cities’ softness on crime.
  
  Baltimore is the more violent of the two. While Chicago’s violence level remains elevated, with 508 murders through Dec. 22, both homicides and shootings have declined since a 2016 spike. In Baltimore, however, elevated levels of violent crime have continued virtually unabated.

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• The latest call to action from some criminal-justice activists: "Abolish the police." From the streets of Chicago to the city council of Seattle, and in the pages of academic journals ranging from the Cardozo Law Review to the Harvard Law Review and of mainstream publications from the Boston Review to Rolling Stone, advocates and activists are building a case not just to reform policing—viewed as an oppressive, violent, and racist institution—but to do away with it altogether.
  
  When I first heard this slogan, I assumed that it was a figure of speech, used to legitimize more expansive criminal-justice reform. But after reading the academic and activist literature, I realized that "abolish the police" is a concrete policy goal. The abolitionists want to dismantle municipal police departments and see "police officers disappearing from the streets."

Labels: department issues

• Under New York’s " justice reforms," criminals must be provided with the names and contact information of victims and witnesses involved in the case against them.
  
  Effective January 1, 2020, prosecutors will have just 15 days from the time of arraignment to hand over all evidence pertaining to a case – including victim and witness information, WSTM reported. Cases can be dismissed if prosecutors fail to meat [sic] the deadline, Albany County District Attorney David Soares told the news outlet.
  
  "’By the way, I have to provide your cell phone number to his lawyer in a few weeks,’" Soares used as an example of what he will be forced to tell crime victims. "I don’t know how I’m going to have these conversations with a victim."
  
  Under the law change, the court can also require crime scenes to remain unchanged so that defendants can be allowed to visit them, the New York Daily News reported.

Labels: dumb ideas, out-of-state

• Twenty-seven people have been shot — five of them fatally — in gun violence across Chicago so far this weekend.

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• A federal court has ruled that prisons in the state of Illinois must provide access to hormone therapy for transgender inmates and must let inmates choose which facility they go to based on their gender identity.
  
  In a 39-page court order dated earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois ruled that the Illinois Department of Corrections make multiple sweeping changes in how it deals with transgender inmates, which includes a mandate to "ensure timely hormone therapy is provided when necessary and perform routine monitoring of hormone levels," and a prohibition on "mechanically assigning housing based on genitalia and/or physical size or appearance."

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• A Chicago police vehicle was involved in a crash Friday in Humboldt Park on the West Side. Officers were on their way to assist with a call about 4:45 p.m. in the 800 block of North Sacramento Boulevard with their lights and sirens activated, Chicago police said. Their SUV was struck by a Jeep that was westbound on Grand Avenue.
  
  Two officers, men ages 48 and 28, were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police and Chicago Fire Department officials said. The 30-year-old woman driving the Jeep was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, also with non-life threatening injuries, authorities said.
  
  Police said the officers had the green light and the woman ignored a red light. No citations have been issued at this time, police said.

Labels: officer injured, safety issues

• A Michigan man arrested on drug- and weapon-related charges allegedly hid a loaded revolver inside his underwear while he was being booked at Cook County Jail on Christmas Eve.
  
  Authorities discovered the five-inch, .22-caliber revolver with six live rounds when Jaetuan Poplar stepped into a body-scanning machine at the jail, Cook County prosecutors said Friday.
  
  While Poplar was being scanned, a sheriff’s officer noticed "within the crotch area of body scan what appeared to be the handle to a handgun," according to an incident report. Poplar, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was then strip searched, but nothing else was found, the report said.
  
  The Cook County Sheriff’s Department is conducting an investigation into how Poplar managed to get and conceal the weapon — especially since the 25-year-old was taken into custody by Berwyn police two days before the gun was discovered and had attended a bond hearing on other charges related to that matter on Tuesday.

Labels: county, safety issues

• A former Chicago police supervisor is facing a federal lawsuit for alleged sexual misconduct while on duty, a filing that accuses him of threatening to arrest a transgender woman if she did not perform a sex act on him.
  
  The lawsuit was the second this year accusing the former officer of on-duty sexual misconduct. He retired from the department as a sergeant in April after being relieved of his police powers during an internal review of the latest claim.
  
  The allegation also is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation, police said. It is the third time in recent years the same officer has been sued for misconduct. The two prior cases were settled by the city.

• on the same team as the disgraced Escamerit
• during the same time Escamerit was taken out of the 011 District in handcuffs
• and was actually recommended for promotion by the same exempt member as Escamerit.

Labels: scandals, un-fucking-believable

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• A barricade situation in East Garfield Park has been deemed resolved after a woman who was thought to be a hostage told police officers she was ok.
  
  Police first responded to reports of a domestic disturbance about 12:50 a.m. Thursday at the home in the 200 block of North California Avenue, Chicago police said. The SWAT team was called after hearing reports that there was an armed man inside who was refusing to let his girlfriend leave.
  
  The SWAT team left the home about 4 a.m. after officers made contact with the woman through a window, police said. The woman reportedly told them that she was ok and uninjured.

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• 2017 Christmas tally: 5 killed, 21 wounded
  
  2018 Christmas tally: 5 killed, 29 wounded
  
  2019 Christmas tally: 7 killed, 55 wounded

Labels: crime, stats

• In the predawn hours of Christmas morning, a burst of gunfire on Chicago’s Southwest Side disrupted a family’s holiday celebration and left a 7-year-old girl fighting for her life.
  
  The child was watching television in the living room of a multifamily building just after 1:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 3500 block of South Washtenaw Avenue when gunshots rang out, according to Chicago police.
  
  Outside the dwelling, a 38-year-old man, who police said was the apparent target of the shooting, was hit in leg. An errant bullet flew through a window of the home, tore through a couch and hit the girl in the abdomen.

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• Nine people were shot across Chicago on Christmas Eve, including a man who was killed in Austin on the West Side.

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• It’s a merry Christmas for Jim Crowley. The former Chicago police officer is home. Now 54, Crowley was 22 in 1987 when a drunk driver hit his squad car, leaving him with traumatic brain injuries. The accident also killed veteran Chicago police officer William Morrison.
  
  Crowley, who uses a wheelchair and needs help with every aspect of his life, has resided in specialized care facilities at several locations around the country since then, most recently in Texas. His younger sister, Beth Carter, made it a point to visit him every Christmas, but always made the trip a few days early so she could return home to Chicago to be with her young children for the actual day.
  
  But this year, she made it her mission to bring him home.

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• Thousands of Chicagoans saved more than 11ドル.5 million by taking advantage of new city sticker amnesty and debt relief programs during the first three months of the initiative, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office said Tuesday.
  
  The city launched the debt forgiveness program for sticker scofflaws in October, allowing residents who’d racked up hefty late fees to buy a new city sticker without being hit with the back charges.
  
  Nearly 9,000 drivers did just that to get into compliance, a ninefold increase over the previous year, according to the mayor’s office. In all, almost 11,400 residents were absolved of more than 11ドル.5 million in outstanding ticket debt.

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• Anyone planning a trip to Chicago would be wise to avoid coming to town from December through March — undoubtedly the four most unpleasant months of the year, weather-wise. But that’s the timeline interim Chicago Police Supt. Charlie Beck will operate under as he works to grease the skids for whoever becomes the department’s next full-time leader.
  
  Beck retired as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department in 2018 after nine years at the helm. All told, he spent more than 40 years with the LAPD. Earlier this month, he was thrust to the top of the Chicago Police Department sooner than planned after Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired former Supt. Eddie Johnson amid an investigation by the city’s Office of the Inspector General.
  
  Beck has said he wouldn’t take the permanent job, even if offered, giving him the freedom to make unpopular decisions without worrying about political blowback. "I think that there’s a number of things that will benefit Chicago and the Chicago Police Department that can get done by an interim that would be a heavier lift for a full-time" superintendent, he said. "I wouldn’t have come here if I didn’t think that this would succeed. I have no interest in anything else. If I didn’t think that we could set things up for a better Chicago Police Department I wouldn’t be here."

Labels: department issues, new super

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• In another piece of anti-police alarmism, CBS 2’s Dave Savini reported on an incident involving a Chicago police officer occurring on the South Side on Thanksgiving Day. A hot news flash fabricated to shake the world, Savini seized on an episode involving Officer Jerald Williams, who is assigned to the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) Area South Gang Enforcement Unit. Reporting with agog over Williams’ encounter with Bernard Kersh, what began as a story of a man whose brain was pickled on alcohol provoking a police officer ended with Savini treating viewers with yet another fantasy tale of police delighting in barging into homes, harassing innocent residents, and marring a birthday party. Electrified by the affair, Savini focused not on an incident in which Kersh assaulted a police officer, but rather with Williams’ fondness with physical fitness. Williams, you see, is not only in the service of the City of Chicago, but is also a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) competitor. An issue Savini gazed upon to expose the supposably dark and incurably violent nature of policing, for those who may be overcome with the gnawing suspicion anti-police bias has seeped into Savini’s reporting, you are correct.

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• Chicago police are questioning a person of interest after 13 people were wounded, four of them critically, during a shooting inside a memorial gathering early Sunday in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, authorities said.
  
  More people were wounded in the shooting than at any other in the city since at least 2013, when 13 people were shot in Back of the Yards, according to data gathered by the Tribune.
  
  The violence began about 12:40 a.m. at a house party in the 5700 block of South May Street commemorating the birthday of a man who died in a previous shooting. Someone at the party opened fire, sending 13 people to area hospitals, according to Chicago police.

• In response to the recent violence in Englewood, the Commander of the 016th District immediately ordered the arrest of a dozen Christmas carolers in front of the station to balance out any racial disparities experienced citywide after the mass shooting in Englewood.

• where is the post shooting mission going to be? Because if it's in Englewood, someone with the ACLU is going to whine;
• why is no one in the media calling this a "mass shooting" and demanding the disarming of the ghetto?
• why is there a party for a dead guy, who was shot and killed when he attempted to carjack a Concealed Carry Permit holder while he was already in another stolen car?

• "It’s so real, that lack of caring for life," [Terence] Daniely said. "It’s reckless, just reckless. How does it continually happen? When is it going to stop?"

Labels: crime, sarcasm AND silliness

• J[..] is done. DEA is sending her back. Found out about her lost gun then found it was used in homicide through ballistics while missing...only took 10 days for that. Lt JB in 011 lied on report for her. when will they get that turd? .. Meanwhile her brother is a homicide offender.... hmmm...how does she get any sensitive positions????much less still on job?

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• [C.D.] (#FatHeadEd’s side, side hustle) has hired a lawyer to sue him personally, the City and Department plus a few other exempts under #MeToo. City Hall was put on notice by her Attorney of their intention to seek compensation and job protections under an EEOC/Whistleblower (no pun intended) complaint in exchange for full disclosure of the last few years (including asking her to destroy the phone and sim/sd card).
  
  So, let’s get this straight...his wife Nakia Fenner was his side piece during his last marriage. For her troubles, she was eventually made (meritoriously) Sgt then given the Lt’s test and will get part of his pension in the divorce. Then, newly minted task force Sgt [J.H.] was his side piece after his marriage to Nakia only got stripes. Now, [C.D.] (his side, side piece) who was expecting a Sgt’s promotion but will have to settle for a huge bag of dough...jeeez, this guy’s a rolling ATM for these women!"

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• I'm not one to ask for handouts. And this one isn't for me anyway. It's for a childhood friend and her husband (CPD) that recently lost their son (sheriff/suicide) and got scammed.
  
  Read the link [attached] and make your own determination. But getting some publicity hopefully will go a long way to making this family whole again (at least partially, they'll never be 100%).
  
  They wouldn't be asking for help if they didn't need it. They aren't deadbeats.

Labels: events

• 2:20p 6000 S Fairfield, Chicago Lawn, M/41 #500

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• As police traffic stops continue to spike in Chicago, the American Civil Liberties Union is asking why minorities are still pulled over much more often than whites despite court-ordered reforms as City Hall searches for its fourth police superintendent in 11 years.
  
  "Drivers of color continue to be stopped at higher percentages than their estimated local driving population," the ACLU noted after statistics from 2018 were released. "And they are asked to consent to searches more frequently, with less contraband found, than white drivers."
  
  There were roughly 490,000 traffic stops on Chicago streets last year, more than 200,000 than the previous year, according to data from the Illinois Department of Transportation. It was the third consecutive year of sharp increases.
  
  About 86% (421,000) involved minority motorists. Of those, 300,000 were black. That’s 61% of the total number of people stopped in Chicago in 2018, even though African Americans are about 31% of the city’s 2.7 million population. Nearly 68,000 of the stops involved white motorists.

• Why are 80-to-85% of the homicides committed by black offenders?

• A spokesman told reporters that CPD "shares the concerns" of the ACLU and continues to seek new ways — in hiring practices, officer training and supervision — to treat all residents of Chicago equally.
  
  Justice demands nothing less, nor does the pursuit of more effective policing.

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• Vanquished former Ald. John Arena (45th) was accused Friday of using his 129,996ドル-a-year job in the city’s Department of Planning and Development as a platform to continue fighting the man who beat him.
  
  Ald. Jim Gardiner (45th) said Arena showed up at a community meeting this week on the proposed 200ドル million development on the old Sears site at Six Corners and distributed literature and gathered signatures for Ellen Hill, who is running against Gardiner for Democratic committeeman.
  
  According to Gardiner and other community leaders who contacted the Sun-Times, Arena was also distributing scripted comments to help area residents hold Gardiner’s feet to the fire on the issue of affordable housing.
  
  Gardiner accused Arena of adding insult to injury by going inside the meeting, sitting in one of the front rows and giving him the finger.

• Planning and Development spokesman Peter Strazzabosco issued a brief statement that said, "The allegations, which the former alderman denies, are unacceptable for a professional civil servant. The Department of Planning and Development has addressed this matter internally."

Labels: city politics, silly people

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• A man convicted of killing off-duty Chicago Police Officer Michael Bailey in a botched car-jacking attempt nearly a decade ago was sentenced Thursday to life in prison.
  
  Before handing down the sentence for [a worthless piece of shit we won't mention here], Cook County Judge Stanley Sacks pointed to multiple carjackings [this P-o-Shit] committed in the weeks before and after he shot Bailey, and to the fact [P-o-shit] was caught twice with metal shanks inside the Cook County Jail while awaiting trial. The judge also tacked on an additional 35-year sentence for one of those carjackings.

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• Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx is facing criticism for the way her office is handling shoplifting crimes, and it comes at the height of the holiday shopping season.
  
  Thieves have been brazen and bold, scooping up merchandise and walking out of stores. Chicago Police report one of the latest cases happened Friday, Dec. 13, when four thieves entered a retail store in the 1800-block of West Fullerton, and walked away with more than 20 coats in their arms. There are also concerns in Chicago's Loop.
  
  "It's not like when I grew up," said Michael Edwards, president and CEO of the Chicago Loop Alliance, an organization that represents more than 200 stores on State Street. "People are coming in and grabbing armloads of merchandise and walking out of the store."
  
  Edwards said retailers are concerned about Foxx's retail theft policy. After taking office, Foxx raised the felony threshold for theft from 300ドル to 1,000ドル. Thirty states have set their threshold at 1,000ドル or more, according to the Pew Research Center.

Labels: county, scandals

• A 25-year-old man was denied bail Wednesday on charges he sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl who was studying at a public library while her mother was at a nearby laundromat in Morgan Park.
  
  Damond Hampton, who had been banned from the library after "bothering" women there several times since May, faced three counts of predatory criminal sexual assault when he appeared for the hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.

• A police spokeswoman said Hampton had been banned from the branch prior to the assault due to "his inappropriate behavior with female library patrons." Prosecutors said Hampton had been accused of "staring at and bothering women" at least seven times since May.

Labels: scandals

• At least 13 Chicago police officers have been cleared of wrongdoing in connection with allegations made by former 45th Ward alderman John Arena that the officers made "racially charged" comments on social media about a mixed-income housing development at 5150 N. Northwest Hwy.
  
  On Jan. 11, 2018, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability launched an investigation into 32 police officers following complaints filed by the former alderman’s staff member.
  
  In response to a recent Freedom of Information Act request, COPA released a document showing that the allegations against 13 of the officers were "unfounded." COPA did not respond to inquiries from Nadig Newspapers as to the status for the other 19 officers.
  
  The recent FOIA requests were made by one of the officers whose allegation of "verbal abuse" was unfounded by COPA. The accountability office released hundreds of pages of documents and e-mails, but the vast majority was redacted, the officer said.

• The provided documents included a digital recording of COPA investigators interviewing a Chicago detective who in the recording said that he never posted the comments on Facebook which he was accused of. "That’s not my post, nor is it my account," the detective said.
  
  The investigators abruptly stop the interview after the detective tells them that the holder of the Facebook account is a relative who is not a police officer and that he does not have access to it.

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• A Chicago police SUV was involved in a crash Wednesday morning.
  
  According to officials, the incident took place in Jefferson Park around 12:30 a.m. when the driver of a red Kia went through a red light.
  
  Two officers were taken to local hospitals.
  
  Officials said a DUI investigation is underway for the 38-year-old driver of the Kia.

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• Video posted to Facebook this weekend shows four adult shoplifters casually strolling out of a Lincoln Park store with as many coats as each one can carry. Meanwhile, a stunned store worker trails behind, seemingly helpless to do anything about it.
  
  Marshall’s "just got they dumb ass got" Facebook user Binky GZ wrote in her Dec. 13 post. "They walked out this bitch with hella coats." No doubt about that.
  
  Video is rolling as the men walk past the check-out lines one-by-one with piles of winterwear.
  
  The second thief has so many coats in his arms, he can barely see over the top of the stack as he walks.
  
  But the third man has more style, preferring to keep his haul of about 10 coats neatly arranged on their hangers as he hot-foots it toward the door.

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• Chicago Police officers pointed their guns at people 246 times during the month of November and the first day of December 2019, according to new data obtained by CBS 2.
  
  The data were released as part of an order called a consent decree, in which a federal court stepped in to oversee reforms at the Chicago Police Department (CPD). The consent decree went into effect earlier this year; November was the first month CPD was required to collect data on times officers point their weapons at people under the agreement.
  
  Under the rules, the CPD must notify the Office of Emergency Management and Communication whenever an officer points a gun at someone.
  
  Most of the incidents occurred on the city’s South and West sides — places predominantly populated by people of color, and which see the highest levels of gun violence, according to city data.

• In Chicago’s Harrison (11th) police district, the area with the most reported incidents, CPD officers pointed guns at people 23 times in November, data analysis by CBS 2 shows. The 11th district includes Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood, as well as parts of East Garfield Park and Humboldt Park.
  
  In the Englewood (7th) police district, which covers the Englewood and West Englewood neighborhoods, officers pointed guns at people 22 times.

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• The Chicago Police Department announced Tuesday the number of detective areas in the city is expanding from three back to five in order to improve response times, particularly on the West Side.
  
  Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel shuttered two of the original five.
  
  Mayor Lori Lightfoot mentioned the plan in October, and a report from the Police Executive Research Forum recommended the expansion, saying it was challenging to effectively police large areas and respond in a timely manner.

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• A Chicago mob figure convicted in the landmark Operation Family Secrets investigation more than a decade ago was arrested Tuesday on new federal charges alleging he stole from Social Security.
  
  Michael "Mickey" Marcello, the half-brother of former Outfit boss James Marcello, was indicted on a charge he stole more than 44,000ドル in Social Security funds between September 2017 and May 2019.
  
  Marcello, 68, of west suburban Wood Dale, pleaded not guilty to the one count of theft in a brief hearing in U.S. District Court and was later released on his own recognizance.
  
  His attorney, Catharine O’Daniel, said Marcello will fight the charge.

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• A group of teenagers ran wild Saturday evening in the Loop, attacking people who were enjoying a night of holiday fun. One woman said the teens hit her in the face with a bottle for no reason. And an EMS crew took a man to the hospital for treatment after eight youths battered and robbed him on the street. It all played out in about 20 minutes, witnesses said. No arrests have been made.
  
  [...] Three victims told that officer that the teens had jumped them without warning outside a nearby Panera Bread.
  
  The brawling group broke into smaller parts and fled through the Loop, with a large contingent running northbound toward the Chicago River. About ten minutes later, a group of eight teenage offenders attacked a 39-year-old man as he walked with his wife on the first block of East Lake Street, CPD spokesperson [...] said.
  
  The teens pushed the man down, then hit and kicked him before they robbed him of personal belongings and fled westbound toward State Street, police said. The victim was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with cuts to his face and knees....
  
  Moments after that, a woman reported that a teenage boy hit her in the face with a bottle as she walked with a group of friends near Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive.
  
  Also around 8 p.m., a woman in her 50’s told police that a group of teenagers who appeared 16- or 17-years-old attacked her near the McDonald’s at 119 North Wabash.

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• Two grade school-aged boys armed with baseball bats robbed a man in Lakeview on Sunday afternoon. They then battered a CPD sergeant who tried to take them into custody at the Belmont Red Line station minutes later, according to Chicago police.
  
  Both juveniles, ages 12 and 13, are facing multiple felony and misdemeanor charges.
  
  A 25-year-old man told police that the boys approached him around 4:40 p.m. as he looked at his phone on the 800 block of West Belmont outside a Target store. The boys took the man’s phone, and one of them tried to strike the victim with a bat before both juveniles ran away toward the nearby CTA train station.
  
  After a witness called 911, officers who monitor the Town Hall Police District’s surveillance camera system spotted the offenders standing on the southbound train platform. CTA briefly halted inbound service at the station to keep the boys from escaping by train. The boys then resisted arrest and battered a police sergeant who tried to take them into custody on the platform, police said. The sergeant declared a "10-1" police emergency to draw immediate help to the scene.
  
  Both boys threw their bats from the platform and fled from the scene. Back-up officers captured both of them after brief foot chases, according to a CPD spokesperson.

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• Foul language dangerous to Recruits!
  
  This week at the Academy, a veteran police officer with a distinguished career, well respected amongst peers and past recruits alike, was relieved of his position on the gym staff and relocated elsewhere because he was deemed ‘a danger’ to recruit training!
  
  As it turns out, the foul language and sarcastic comments he uttered during recruit punishment for tardiness - hurt these snowflakes feelings so irreparably - that their homeroom instructor (another veteran officer and marine !!!?? ) had to come to their rescue. This brave homeroom Veteran, cast Vicariously as both Villain and Victim, was vivified at the viciousness of the verbose gym veteran’s villainy, and vowed to seek a vendetta, not in vain, but to vanguard the victims virginity.
  
  A CR was initiated against this barbaric officer as recruits hands were held as they recorded their hurt feelings and the spoken bad words in to/from subject reports.
  
  While the ending of this story is still unfolding, you can sleep safely at night knowing that while future PPOs might not have the same physical skills acquired by prior recruits, nor be as well prepared for violent encounters, or be fortified with mental toughness to withstand personal insults and ethnic slurs, they will be well trained on documenting bad words and hurtful language used by officers and offenders alike!
  
  Stay safe friends, because the city won’t.

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• During a recent FOIA request, COPA informed a requestor that there is information that could not be released due to it compromising the identity of their confidential source. So apparently COPA gets to now have "CI’s" and run covert investigations.
  
  One minute they’re getting Search Warrants for Officers property, the next they’re working with Confidential Informants.
  
  This same FOIA request also revealed that the same "confidential source" went back as far as 2013 to report a social media post that was made by an Officers family member. Yes, they are now not only spying on us, but our family members, as well and have every intention of holding us accountable for what others post to social media.

Labels: un-fucking-believable

• Last week a unit responded to a H-and-M store in the South Loop when an employee, who saw a regular [shoplifting] crew in the store again stealing anything they could, called 911. Once on scene the officers observed the manager scolding the employee for calling the police as they were told by the store’s corporate headquarters that "H-and-M will no longer prosecute shoplifters because of prior incidents in the stores".
  
  Asked to repeat it, the store manager supposedly once again stated that H-and-M will not prosecute for retail theft and it’s documented on the officers BWCs. Any bets on how long H-and-M stays in business?

Labels: crime, we got nothing

• Humor can often be the most disarming thing and put people in a position where they're questioning things that they might not have otherwise," said Matt McLoughlin, a lanky man with a thick handlebar mustache and a tiny ponytail, as he and a few acquaintances settled at a table in the center of Ceres Cafe in the Board of Trade building. On the night of Wednesday, October 16, Ceres became ground zero (or perhaps one of several ground zeros) for an evening of drinking and alleged romantic indiscretions by Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson. He was fired by Mayor Lori Lightfoot on December 2 for allegedly lying about what he did that night.
  
  After the mayor's announcement McLoughlin didn't hesitate to call on the city to gather at Ceres and mark the occasion by getting "Eddie Johnson drunk." The Facebook event he created started trending immediately; more than 2,300 people ultimately responded they were "interested" and more than 700 said they were going.

Labels: scandals

• So after [my fellow officer] got home from taking the Sergeant test at McCormick place...... She went on to tell me that the Starbucks in McCormick place refused to allow any officers in the shop because another event was being held by a group that "wasn’t comfortable around guns"!!!! I myself am tired of this shit!!! Starbucks has proven time after time they are not supportive of our officers.

Labels: un-fucking-believable

Labels: events, promotions

• Under the City of New York’s so-called justice reforms, suspects will no longer be held in jail for carrying weapons beginning in January.
  
  Offenders found in possession of a wide array of weapons – including guns, switchblades, swords, machetes, and stun guns – will instead be issued a "desk appearance ticket" and "set free," the New York City Police Benevolent Association (PBA) pointed out in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
  
  Lawmakers also eliminated cash bail for hundreds of other criminal charges.
  
  "This law starts on Jan. 1st for ALL of New York, not just New York City," the PBA noted in another post.

• An 18-year-old Barnard College freshman who was killed in a park near campus fought her teenage attackers in what police called a robbery gone wrong, authorities said Friday.
  
  At a hearing Friday night for a 13-year-old boy charged in the stabbing death of Tessa Majors, authorities revealed alleged details of her slaying...

• A 30-year-old man was walking with his girlfriend at 12:07 a.m. in the 300 block of North Michigan Avenue when he got into an argument with a group of people, Chicago police said. The altercation with the four males and two females became physical, and he was stabbed in the chest and back with an unknown object.
  
  A 23-year-old man passing by tried to intervene, but he was stabbed in the thigh, police said. Both men were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition.

Labels: crime, out-of-state, we got nothing

Labels: events, promotions

• Five women from Chicago are accused in a cross-country shoplifting spree. The women were arrested in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
  
  Police said the women stole more than 1,500ドル from a local supermarket. The suspects then fled the scene but were pulled over shortly after during a traffic stop, police said. A search of their vehicle turned up a total of 25,000ドル worth of stolen beauty products, such as makeup, teeth whitener and hair care products.
  
  Antoinette Avant, Casha Jackson, Kanissha Price, Elena Rios and Kimberly Coffer are accused of stealing the merchandise from various locations, according to arrest reports.

Labels: sarcasm AND silliness

• Two men were found handcuffed and duct-taped after telling police they were kidnapped on the Northwest Side Thursday night and police are now questioning their account.
  
  Chicago Police Spokesman Anthony [Google-me] said, "As you may suspect, we take reports like this extremely seriously. In their preliminary investigation to corroborate information, Detectives have serious concerns about legitimacy of what was reported to police. Our investigation continues."
  
  The victims, ages 65 and 55, told police they were in a van waiting for the light to change in the 4000-block of North Milwaukee Avenue at about 11:37 p.m. when three suspects got out of a white van.

Labels: sarcasm AND silliness

Labels: sarcasm AND silliness

• A Chicago Police Department lieutenant filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming he was passed over for promotions because of his race and because of comments he made about the investigation into former CPD Officer Jason Van Dyke’s fatal 2016 shooting of Laquan McDonald.
  
  Lt. Osvaldo Valdez filed the suit Wednesday afternoon in Cook County Circuit Court, naming the city, former Mayor Rahm Emanuel and former CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson as defendants.
  
  In the suit, Valdez claims the city violated the First and 14th amendments of the U.S. Constitution as well as parts of the Illinois Constitution by denying his promotion to the rank of captain or higher because he is Latino and because of statements he made about the Van Dyke investigation.

Labels: un-fucking-believable

Labels: county, FOP

• Also Wednesday, the Finance Committee signed off on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to abolish the Irving Park/Elston tax increment financing district.
  
  Local Ald. Samantha Nugent (39th) withdrew her earlier objections after being assured the city would find the money to install ornamental metal signposts to identify the Old Irving Park neighborhood she represents.

Labels: city politics, corruption

• The city's police disciplinary panel Thursday night suspended a Chicago police sergeant for six months after he was found to have unjustifiably used deadly force when he shot an unarmed teen with mental disabilities in an off-duty incident two years ago.

Labels: scandals, un-fucking-believable

• Black and Hispanic aldermen unloaded on interim Chicago Police Supt. Charlie Beck on Wednesday for abolishing merit promotions used to bolster the number of minority supervisors in the ranks of the Chicago Police Department.
  
  "I told him I was completely against it. It puts the department back 20 years — even further than that," said Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th), the former police sergeant now leading the City Council’s Committee on Public Safety.
  
  "I agree with the superintendent that it probably has been abused. There’s a lack of transparency. But why not fix those problems and the abuse rather than getting rid of the whole system of merit selection?"

Labels: city politics

• Three men are in custody after shots were fired at police Wednesday during a traffic stop in South Shore on the South Side.
  
  About 12:05 a.m., officers on patrol requested assistance in an attempt to make a traffic stop in the 6900 block of South Merrill Avenue, Chicago police said. An additional CPD squad car went to assist in the stop and while behind the vehicle, a black jeep, man from the jeep allegedly opened fire on the officers.
  
  No officer was struck or injured, police said. The jeep then attempted to flee and crashed into a parked vehicle in the 2100 block of East 67th Street.
  
  The passengers of the jeep, three adult males, attempted to run from the crash, but were all taken into custody, police said. Two weapons were found.

Labels: safety issues

Labels: officer down, out-of-state

• This past week, a Chicago based man who seems to have a history of firearm blunders is now facing some serious charges after an interaction with police had turned into a shooting.
  
  Charges have been filed against a man who was shot in the leg by Chicago police after he allegedly pulled a gun while trying to elude officers that wanted to question him.
  
  [...]
  
  Less than two months ago on October 15th, he was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon when he accidentally shot a woman while showing his gun to co-workers at a Wendy’s restaurant in Alsip.

Labels: crime, shooting, un-fucking-believable

• An Elmwood Park man ambushed a fellow chef in the kitchen of a Portage Park restaurant during the dinner rush Sunday, fatally stabbing him with a 9-inch fillet knife for several minutes as he fended off coworkers trying to stop him with cutting boards and a chair, prosecutors say.
  
  Jesus Martinez, 37, was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the murder of 35-year-old Cory Neill, who both worked as chefs at the Foundation Tavern and Grille, 5007 W. Irving Park Rd., according to Cook County prosecutors.

Labels: crime, sarcasm AND silliness