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Thanks to Joey S for this video.
11/20/09
Once again.... When you get free government paychecks you have to find something to do with your time...Usually CRIME
Had white boys video taped themselves attacking blacks I am sure the news would have handled this news story differently.
Thanks to Joey S for this video.
Thanks to Joey S for this video.
Chicago Police Sergeant accused of stealing more than $600,000 - Will the F.O.P be next???
Sergeant accused of stealing more than $600,000
The head of the Chicago Police Sergeant's Association was arrested this morning and charged with stealing more than $600,000 from the organization for gambling trips to Las Vegas, stays at Chicago hotels and work on his home.
Charges of money laundering and theft of over $100,000 were filed against Sgt. John J. Pallohusky following an investigation by the Cook County state's attorney's office and Chicago police.
Pallohusky, a sergeant in the Harrison Area detective division, is accused of embezzling more than $600,000 from the association for Las Vegas gambling trips, overnight stays at downtown Chicago hotels, dinners at Loop restaurants and improvements to his Sauganash neighborhood home, the state's attorney's office said.
Pallohusky, 53, was arrested this morning.
The charges were expected to be detailed by Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez at a news conference this afternoon at the Daley Center.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
I thought that Sheriff Tom "Toupee" Dart was going to do a "perp walk" with the arrested police Sergeant... But Dart may have been tied up with his new TV show on the Discovery Channel.
11/19/09
Once again another day filled with nothing but awful news - Time For a Detective Shavedlongcock musical break
She is the only woman who can make me forget the terrible news of the day, the only woman who can make me smile when my face wants to frown, the only woman who's voice is 100% perfect.... Yes, if you have been a reader of my blog for any length of time you know who it is already...
Miss Karen Carpenter and her brother Richard Carpenter
The Carpenters
Karen Carpenter - Medley of Hits - ©1976
She is so smoking hot in this video..... WOWZA!
John Northen: Re: Phone Call With Bill Cozzi
SCC & SLC::
I just spoke with Bill Cozzi.
Quoting Bill:Even though I have major problems, I will survive I want to thank all of you guys that are making the $10 donations to the families of our fallen brothers and sisters. John Northen told me about the sky blue wristbands that just started circulating throughout the department... I love you guys! I also hear that the CPD and CFD are showing much more UNITY during these stressful times..
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You don't know how precious your cards and letters are to me. John asked me this forced choice question: What makes my otherwise miserable existence down here a thousand miles away from home: Without a doubt, that's easy: MAIL CALL! I am so grateful to SCC and SLC for prominently posting my mailing address at the top of their blog sites. John also told me that at the FOP meeting Tuesday night, a full house unanimously believes my mailing address should appear in the December FOP Newsletter. With thanks to Mark Donahue and Greg Bella, I have been receiving the newsletters at Oakdale. Aside from that and your letters and barring national news, I have no idea what's happening in Chicago and the CPD. I can't receive subscriptions to the Tribune and Sun-Times because of the distance. Oakdale will not accept newspapers unless they come directly from the publishers.
I have reached my alloted limit for paperback books. Please hold off until John informs you otherwise.
I can't deny it. I'd like to be upbeat but I''m depressed, homesick, lonely and isolated. Basically, I keep to myself. I agree with John. I have no idea why the Bureau of Prisons sent me down to this miserable place rather than Oxford, Wisconsin. In order, I get the distinct impression that most of the other inmates do not like police officers, Northerners and certainly Chicagoans, Catholics and people of Italian ancestry. Again, your mail has made me stronger and I will survive.
Please wear the wristbands and donate to the families of our murdered police officers.
When you gather around your Thanksgiving feast with loved ones next Thursday, I will be thinking of your kindness.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving. God bless you!
Bill Cozzi
WJC:jn .
I thank John Northen for this E-Mail.
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Let's see if the newspapers will run this news story for 5 days in a row like they did with the Muslim woman who had her scarf pulled
For 5 days now I have been reading in the two major Chicago newspapers about some 54 year old white woman who was charged with a FELONY for pulling some raghead's scarf.
Now with one black offender in custody and another still wanted for the murder of this White U.S. War Vet... Do you think the newspapers are going to run a news story for 5 days straight on that????
I will try and find out where my viewers and I can send a donation in this victim's name to his VFW hall.
Veteran robbed, killed on way to deposit money from benefit
William Burtner survived Vietnam and dedicated his life to helping veterans.
On Monday, Burtner was about to enter a Midlothian bank to deposit money the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2808 had raised during a benefit.
He never made it inside.
Burtner, 65, was assaulted and robbed outside the bank and rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, authorities said. He died Wednesday night.
An autopsy today concluded Burtner died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease and fractured ribs from the assault, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. It ruled the death a homicide.
Burtner was about to deposit proceeds from a VFW benefit last weekend for Chicago area World War II veterans so they could visit a war memorial in Washington, D.C., according to Katherine Foss, a family friend.
Police were questioning a suspect today who may be responsible for other robberies in the area. No other details were available.
Burtner grew up in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood and held several jobs, most recently as a custodian at a Southwest Side post office. Burtner also installed furnaces at one time, worked at a glass company and was a truck mechanic, Foss said.
He survived two tours of combat in Vietnam, all the time hoping his brother wouldn't have to follow him. He had been active in his VFW post for 25 years.
He underwent lung cancer surgery 3 ½ years ago and was undergoing chemotherapy, Foss said, adding that his doctor told family members he was showing great progress.
His doctor had described him as a "strong tough guy," Foss said. "She said he was doing great."
Details of the assault were not immediately available from police.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
What a shame... These animals are out of control. Killing a retired US war vet for some cash from a benefit. May I say it again... PUBLIC HANGINGS, bring them back.
UPDATE: One in custody
Army veteran William "Bill" Burtner survived Vietnam and dedicated his life to helping other veterans.
On Monday, Burtner was about to enter a Midlothian bank to deposit money the south suburb's Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2580 had raised during a benefit.
He never made it inside.
Burtner, 65, was assaulted and robbed outside the bank. He died Wednesday night at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
An autopsy today concluded Burtner died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease and fractured ribs from the assault, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. It ruled the death a homicide.
Burtner was about to deposit proceeds from a VFW benefit last weekend for Chicago-area World War II veterans so they could visit a war memorial in Washington, D.C., according to Katherine Foss, a family friend.
She said Burtner, who was elected as a commander for the post, was supposed to go to the VFW later in the day to help pack up belongings, such as clothing and other donations, for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On Monday, Burtner was entering AJ Smith Federal Savings Bank, 14757 S. Cicero Ave., when two men attacked him in a strong-arm robbery, said Midlothian Police Detective Sgt. Steve Zamiar.
The two men fled the scene in the car and were involved in a crash, Zamiar said. One of the suspects was arrested, and the other suspect fled on foot and is still at large.
Jerry Brown, 28, of Calumet City, is charged with robbery and was being held in lieu of $80,000 bail, according to Cook County state's attorney's office spokesman Andy Conklin.
Midlothian police are in the process of having charges upgraded in light of the medical examiner's office declaring Burtner's death a homicide. Authorities said Brown and the other suspect may be responsible for other robberies in the area.
Debbie Halloran, manager at the VFW post, saw Burtner before the robbery and talked to him in the hospital after the attack. Burtner told her he had bank envelopes with some deposits, as well as money for the Washington trip in a cigar box. He was approached from behind and punched in the ribs, he told her.
Burtner then fell to the ground, Halloran said. She said they made off with the envelopes, which contained $3,000 of the VFW's earnings, but not the cigar box, which contained $2,200 for the World War II veterans' trip to Washington. Burtner told Halloran that he wanted to go after the robbers, but bank tellers came out and made him go into the bank while they called police.
Burtner was a devoted member of the post, Halloran said, as "Amazing Grace" played on the VFW jukebox this afternoon and his friends from the post began gathering there. More than a dozen of his friends were at the post this afternoon, while others gathered with his family.
Foss said Burtner grew up in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood and held several jobs, most recently as a custodian at a Southwest Side post office. Burtner also installed furnaces at one time, worked at a glass company and was a truck mechanic.
He survived two tours of combat in Vietnam, all the time hoping his brother wouldn't have to follow him. He had been active in his VFW post for 25 years.
He underwent lung cancer surgery 3 1/2 years ago and was undergoing chemotherapy, Foss said, adding that his doctor told family members he was showing great progress.
His doctor had described him as a "strong, tough guy," and said "he was just the bravest patient," Foss said. "She said he was doing great."
Burtner also had shrapnel injuries from his combat days during the Vietnam War. "You wouldn't know he did because he never complained about that," Foss said.
She said Burtner's wife, Mary, with whom Foss attended elementary school, met him when she lived next door to one of his sisters, who is now deceased. The two knew each other for more than 20 years before getting married only a few years ago. Foss said.
Earlier this year, she said, he and the VFW helped console the family of fallen Midlothian soldier Sgt. Christopher Abeyta, a National Guardsman who was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in March. "[Burtner] just had a soft, gentle nature for this," Foss said.
Although he was dedicated to serving veterans in the area, Burtner also enjoyed fishing. Foss and her husband are the guardians of a man with cerebral palsy who Burtner would often visit and go fishing with.
"He didn't only treat the troops well, he treated everyone well," Foss said.
In addition to his wife, Burtner is survived by a daughter from a previous marriage, six grandchildren and a great-grandchild. He is also survived by another sister and four brothers.
A visitation was tentatively scheduled from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday at the Andrew J. McGann and Son Funeral Home, 10727 S. Pulaski Rd. The funeral is tentatively scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at Queen of Martyrs Catholic Parish, 10233 S. Central Park Ave. in Evergreen Park, with his burial to follow at Lincoln Cemetery, 12300 S. Kedzie Ave., Alsip.
Mayor Daley just keeps on taking care of his family - Daley reappoints nephew to sports agency
Photo: Mayor Daley (right) re-appointed his nephew and former campaign finance chief Peter Thompson to the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority. Mayor Daley on Wednesday re-appointed his nephew and former campaign finance chief to the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority mapping plans for a retail development near U.S. Cellular Field.
Peter Thompson helped his uncle raise more than $7 million in less than three months -- after Daley took a four-year break from fund-raising in the wake of the Hired Truck scandal -- on the mayor's way to a sixth-term landslide.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
You can really only trust close family members with your cash envelopes........
Man charged with attempted murder of a Chicago cop
Man charge in 2008 gun fight with a Chicago cop
A man has been charged with the attempted murder of an off-duty Chicago police officer after a shootout outside a daycare center where the officer was trying to pick up his daughter in March of 2008 in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Davien Hodges, 22, was already in custody for a parole violation, but was re-arrested at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday and Hodges was charged with attempted murder at 11 p.m. Wednesday, according to police.
At 4:50 p.m. on March 14, 2008, an off-duty Chicago police officer was at 2054 E. 93rd St. to pick up his 3-year-old daughter from the Dorsey’s Developmental Institute, 2050 E. 93rd St., when he saw Hodges allegedly fire a shot at two unknown males standing by the daycare center, according to a police report.
The off-duty officer announced that he was a police office and produced his service weapon. Hodges then allegedly pointed a handgun at the officer who fired at Hodges, according to the report.
Hodges fired back and fled the scene and the officer gave chase. During the chase Hodges allegedly fired another round at the officer who was not struck, according to the report.
The officer positively identified Hodges, who is allegedly a gang member, in a lineup, according to the report.
Calumet Area detectives are investigating.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Better it took a little time to get him than not get him at all. Now go rot in your prison cell you worthless piece of shit!
A man has been charged with the attempted murder of an off-duty Chicago police officer after a shootout outside a daycare center where the officer was trying to pick up his daughter in March of 2008 in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Davien Hodges, 22, was already in custody for a parole violation, but was re-arrested at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday and Hodges was charged with attempted murder at 11 p.m. Wednesday, according to police.
At 4:50 p.m. on March 14, 2008, an off-duty Chicago police officer was at 2054 E. 93rd St. to pick up his 3-year-old daughter from the Dorsey’s Developmental Institute, 2050 E. 93rd St., when he saw Hodges allegedly fire a shot at two unknown males standing by the daycare center, according to a police report.
The off-duty officer announced that he was a police office and produced his service weapon. Hodges then allegedly pointed a handgun at the officer who fired at Hodges, according to the report.
Hodges fired back and fled the scene and the officer gave chase. During the chase Hodges allegedly fired another round at the officer who was not struck, according to the report.
The officer positively identified Hodges, who is allegedly a gang member, in a lineup, according to the report.
Calumet Area detectives are investigating.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Better it took a little time to get him than not get him at all. Now go rot in your prison cell you worthless piece of shit!
Another Chicago police shooting happens tonight as a number of people have been shot tonight - several fatally
Police in shooting incident on North Side
Police were involved in a shooting incident on the North Side this evening, a department spokesman said.
Shots were fired by police a little before 9:30 p.m. in the 5100 block of North Leavitt Avenue, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.
A man or boy was shot at that location, and taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Quention Curtis.
Mirabelli said that he did not have details regarding the incident, including whether was injured in the gunfire.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
E-Mails from several working cops tonight stated that there were a high number of people shot, especially for a cold wet weekday. And now a police shooting also.
Hey Mr. Mayor... Your violence summits are really working. But aren't the summits suppose to cut violence not raise it?
UPDATE:
Man dies after being shot by police on North Side
A 30-year-old man died after being shot by Chicago police on Thursday night in the city's Ravenswood neighborhood.
According to the Cook County medical examiner's office Tarek El-Hila, of the 5100 block of North Leavitt Avenue was pronounced dead at 10:06 p.m. at Illinois Masonic Hospital.
No officers were injured in the shooting around 9:30 p.m. in El-Hila's home, Chicago police said in a statement.
First the conventions left and now..... 'Oprah Winfrey Show' to end in 2011
WHY? You heard it first on Detective Shavedlongcock:
Pres. Obama is dropping in the poles...
Oprah will be Pres. Obama Vice Presidential Running Mate.
Det. Shavedlongcock has not been wrong yet!
'Oprah Winfrey Show' to end in 2011
Oprah Winfrey plans to tell viewers on Friday's live program that she will retire her Chicago-based syndicated daytime talk show at the end of the 2010-11 season.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
The world is not ending in 2012 like so many are predicting... But Chicago might be dead by then. Mayor Daley will run this city into the ground by then.
Pres. Obama is dropping in the poles...
Oprah will be Pres. Obama Vice Presidential Running Mate.
Det. Shavedlongcock has not been wrong yet!
'Oprah Winfrey Show' to end in 2011
Oprah Winfrey plans to tell viewers on Friday's live program that she will retire her Chicago-based syndicated daytime talk show at the end of the 2010-11 season.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
The world is not ending in 2012 like so many are predicting... But Chicago might be dead by then. Mayor Daley will run this city into the ground by then.
U.S. War Veteran robbed, killed on way to deposit money from benefit
Veteran robbed, killed on way to deposit money from benefit
William Burtner survived Vietnam and dedicated his life to helping veterans.
On Monday, Burtner was about to enter a Midlothian bank to deposit money the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2808 had raised during a benefit.
He never made it inside.
Burtner, 65, was assaulted and robbed outside the bank and rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, authorities said. He died Wednesday night.
An autopsy today concluded Burtner died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease and fractured ribs from the assault, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. It ruled the death a homicide.
Burtner was about to deposit proceeds from a VFW benefit last weekend for Chicago area World War II veterans so they could visit a war memorial in Washington, D.C., according to Katherine Foss, a family friend.
Police were questioning a suspect today who may be responsible for other robberies in the area. No other details were available.
Burtner grew up in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood and held several jobs, most recently as a custodian at a Southwest Side post office. Burtner also installed furnaces at one time, worked at a glass company and was a truck mechanic, Foss said.
He survived two tours of combat in Vietnam, all the time hoping his brother wouldn't have to follow him. He had been active in his VFW post for 25 years.
He underwent lung cancer surgery 3 ½ years ago and was undergoing chemotherapy, Foss said, adding that his doctor told family members he was showing great progress.
His doctor had described him as a "strong tough guy," Foss said. "She said he was doing great."
Details of the assault were not immediately available from police.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
What a shame... These animals are out of control. Killing a retired US war vet for some cash from a benefit. May I say it again... PUBLIC HANGINGS, bring them back.
One our past Supt. of Police who is also an attorney is suing the Chicago Police Dept. on behalf of his client.... How nice. Only in Chicago!
PHOTOS: Top Image: Former Chicago Police Supt. and attorney Richard J. Brzeczek
Bottom Image: Andrzej Wojtkielewicz
Shooting victim challenges cops
Disputes their account of chase incident
ST. CHARLES -- The head of the Chicago Police Department will be subpoenaed in the case of an Elk Grove Village man accused of attempted murder after leading police on a high-speed chase in July that ended with him getting shot by Chicago police in Elgin.
Chicago attorney and former Chicago Police Supt. Richard J. Brzeczek, who is representing 22-year-old Andrzej Wojtkielewicz, of the 900 block of Tennessee Lane, submitted a request Wednesday morning to Kane County Associate Circuit Court Judge T. Jordan Gallagher for subpoenas to be served on Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis, requesting the release of police records related to the case.
Wojtkielewicz was indicted in September on charges of attempted first-degree and aggravated battery. Authorities claim he tried to run down a Chicago police officer after a high-speed chase that began on Chicago's northwest side and ended at the Elgin Toll Plaza between Route 31 and Randall Road.
According to police statements at the time, police shot Wojtkielewicz in the chest when he drove into one of the officers after ignoring orders to get out of the car.
"They unjustifiably shoot this guy," Brzeczek said. "And then they justify shooting him by charging him with first-degree murder."
Also subpoenaed was the chief administrator for the city of Chicago's Independent Police Review Authority, a civilian-run board that looks into all police-related shootings.
Brzeczek said that so far, both Chicago police and the IPRA had failed to provide evidence from their investigations regarding the incident that the attorney said would prove Wojtkielewicz had not tried to run over the officers.
He said his client had been shot twice from different angles, and that his vehicle had no damage as a result of a crash.
Wojtkielewicz remained in custody as of Wednesday. His bail has been set at $1 million.
IPRA First Deputy Chief Administrator Mark Smith said the case is still under investigation, and that the agency would comply with any court order. "As with every investigation, we will complete a thorough investigation."
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Former Supt. Richard J. Brzeczek got bounced from the department because he liked his booze too much and was using department funds to pay for his girlfriend's plane tickets and hotel room. So the disgraced former CPD Supt. is suing the CPD in order to disgrace the CPD.... makes sense....
A big thanks to MotorCop for this information.
Bottom Image: Andrzej Wojtkielewicz
Shooting victim challenges cops
Disputes their account of chase incident
ST. CHARLES -- The head of the Chicago Police Department will be subpoenaed in the case of an Elk Grove Village man accused of attempted murder after leading police on a high-speed chase in July that ended with him getting shot by Chicago police in Elgin.
Chicago attorney and former Chicago Police Supt. Richard J. Brzeczek, who is representing 22-year-old Andrzej Wojtkielewicz, of the 900 block of Tennessee Lane, submitted a request Wednesday morning to Kane County Associate Circuit Court Judge T. Jordan Gallagher for subpoenas to be served on Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis, requesting the release of police records related to the case.
Wojtkielewicz was indicted in September on charges of attempted first-degree and aggravated battery. Authorities claim he tried to run down a Chicago police officer after a high-speed chase that began on Chicago's northwest side and ended at the Elgin Toll Plaza between Route 31 and Randall Road.
According to police statements at the time, police shot Wojtkielewicz in the chest when he drove into one of the officers after ignoring orders to get out of the car.
"They unjustifiably shoot this guy," Brzeczek said. "And then they justify shooting him by charging him with first-degree murder."
Also subpoenaed was the chief administrator for the city of Chicago's Independent Police Review Authority, a civilian-run board that looks into all police-related shootings.
Brzeczek said that so far, both Chicago police and the IPRA had failed to provide evidence from their investigations regarding the incident that the attorney said would prove Wojtkielewicz had not tried to run over the officers.
He said his client had been shot twice from different angles, and that his vehicle had no damage as a result of a crash.
Wojtkielewicz remained in custody as of Wednesday. His bail has been set at $1 million.
IPRA First Deputy Chief Administrator Mark Smith said the case is still under investigation, and that the agency would comply with any court order. "As with every investigation, we will complete a thorough investigation."
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Former Supt. Richard J. Brzeczek got bounced from the department because he liked his booze too much and was using department funds to pay for his girlfriend's plane tickets and hotel room. So the disgraced former CPD Supt. is suing the CPD in order to disgrace the CPD.... makes sense....
A big thanks to MotorCop for this information.
Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez fire two State's Attorney Investigators due to prisoner escape
Had Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez purchased a few caged cars to transport prisoners instead of spending big Cook County State's Attorney money on photography of herself - THE PRISONER WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO ESCAPE! But what does Anita the asshat do instead? Fire the investigators!
2 investigators fired after convict escapes from custody
November 19, 2009 11:21 AM | No Comments
Two investigators from the Cook County state's attorney's office have been fired after a convicted robber escaped from their custody in September and led police on a two-day manhunt.
Tandra Simonton confirmed the firing of the investigators, Nick Argentine and Joe Fallon, in connection with the escape of 39-year-old Robert Maday, but said further information about their termination will be available later in the day.
Maday was being transported from the Kankakee County Jail to the Rolling Meadows Courthouse on September 17 to face aggravated robbery charges when he wriggled free, disarmed the two investigators and stole the car they were using to drive him to court, authorities said.
Maday later carjacked two women and robbed a Bloomingdale bank before he was captured more than a day later, authorities said.
He has since been sentenced in Cook County Criminal Court to 13 years in prison for four counts of aggravated robbery for crimes committed in July. He's currently being held on federal bank robbery charges in the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
All the fricken money that is BLOWN at the Cook County State's Attorney Office and they couldn't afford to purchase a few cages to make cage cars to safely transport prisoners? Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez is lucky not to have two dead investigators on her hands.
Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez wouldn't have the balls to transport a criminal in a car that wasn't a cage car but she has the balls to throw two of her investigators under the bus.
One of the investigators that was fired was the former driver of her hated former boss Dick Devine... Do you think that has something to do with it? I surely do!
2 investigators fired after convict escapes from custody
November 19, 2009 11:21 AM | No Comments
Two investigators from the Cook County state's attorney's office have been fired after a convicted robber escaped from their custody in September and led police on a two-day manhunt.
Tandra Simonton confirmed the firing of the investigators, Nick Argentine and Joe Fallon, in connection with the escape of 39-year-old Robert Maday, but said further information about their termination will be available later in the day.
Maday was being transported from the Kankakee County Jail to the Rolling Meadows Courthouse on September 17 to face aggravated robbery charges when he wriggled free, disarmed the two investigators and stole the car they were using to drive him to court, authorities said.
Maday later carjacked two women and robbed a Bloomingdale bank before he was captured more than a day later, authorities said.
He has since been sentenced in Cook County Criminal Court to 13 years in prison for four counts of aggravated robbery for crimes committed in July. He's currently being held on federal bank robbery charges in the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
All the fricken money that is BLOWN at the Cook County State's Attorney Office and they couldn't afford to purchase a few cages to make cage cars to safely transport prisoners? Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez is lucky not to have two dead investigators on her hands.
Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez wouldn't have the balls to transport a criminal in a car that wasn't a cage car but she has the balls to throw two of her investigators under the bus.
One of the investigators that was fired was the former driver of her hated former boss Dick Devine... Do you think that has something to do with it? I surely do!
11/18/09
Due to popular demand - reposting this post
UPDATE: Looks like Michael Sneed reads my blog....
The Scott file . . .
Hmmm. Why would Scott use an installment plan to pay back the $3,000 bill he surprisingly charged to his Chicago School Board credit card -- if he was a successful businessman? And why would he charge the sum -- accrued while traveling to Copenhagen with the 2016 Olympic bid team -- to the School Board in the first place?
Here is why this Detective feels that Michael Scott had some serious money problems & much more - Read my comments below please
Michael Scott's use of board credit card probed
In recent weeks, Chicago school board President Michael Scott was facing scrutiny for using his board credit card to pay for a trip to Copenhagen to lobby for the city's Olympics bid.
The amount in question was not large -- about $3,000 -- and there's no indication that the matter had anything to do with Scott taking his life early Monday.
While Scott went to Copenhagen on behalf of Mayor Richard Daley's Olympics bid team, his costs were not paid by the private group. Instead, he charged his airfare, hotel room, meals and bar tab to his expense account at the school board.
Scott, who traveled with his wife, stayed at the 71 Nyhavn, a four-star hotel on the Copenhagen waterfront from Sept. 29 until Oct. 3.
Weeks after his return, Scott's travel expenses came under scrutiny after the Tribune inquired about spending by board members.
That Nov. 2 inquiry prompted school administrators to review their expense-reimbursement policy and to share the newspaper's request with the schools inspector general's office.
Scott, a Daley loyalist, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head early Monday next to a River North bridge. Police have not found any note, and the motive for his suicide is unknown.
There has been no indication the recent public scrutiny Scott faced as board president, developer and Daley insider played any part in his death.
It's unclear whether Scott's claim for Olympics expenses violated the district's reimbursement policy. That policy states that board members should be repaid for expenses incurred while "in the performance of their duties."
Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the school system, said Tuesday that Scott had begun paying back the money, writing a check as recently as Nov. 8.
"I can confirm his trip to Copenhagen and that there's a preliminary inquiry into that," Bond said. "He was making payments on installments."
Schools Inspector General James Sullivan declined to comment.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
This news article says so much more than what the headline states....
Anytime any high profile official gets caught doing something like this the very first thing they do is pay the amount with personal funds to get the news story out of public eye and to end the investigation because I bet you any money that there are a bunch more credit card charges that don't belong on a work credit card that belong to Scott. But what did Scott do instead?
Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the school system, said Tuesday that Scott had begun paying back the money, writing a check as recently as Nov. 8.
AN INSTALLMENT PLAN ON BOGUS CHARGES??????? And not paid in full?
And #2: If Scott can just charge a Copenhagen trip on his Chicago Public Schools credit card without nobody at the CPS batting an eye... and nothing said about it till the news media brought this up. Imagine what else is being charged on all these officials credit cards????? Here we are talking about a trip with his wife to Copenhagen being charged to a CPS credit card and nobody at the cash strapped CPS said a thing. And this fucking prick Daley wants us to take furlough days as his pals are flying around the world on tax payers funds?
Every work credit card and check book issued to public officials should have every transaction published on the Internet so the public can see what is being charged and then paid for by us, the tax payers.
WHERE ARE THE DAMN REPORTERS IN THIS CITY???????
The Scott file . . .Hmmm. Why would Scott use an installment plan to pay back the $3,000 bill he surprisingly charged to his Chicago School Board credit card -- if he was a successful businessman? And why would he charge the sum -- accrued while traveling to Copenhagen with the 2016 Olympic bid team -- to the School Board in the first place?
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Here is why this Detective feels that Michael Scott had some serious money problems & much more - Read my comments below please
Michael Scott's use of board credit card probed
In recent weeks, Chicago school board President Michael Scott was facing scrutiny for using his board credit card to pay for a trip to Copenhagen to lobby for the city's Olympics bid.
The amount in question was not large -- about $3,000 -- and there's no indication that the matter had anything to do with Scott taking his life early Monday.
While Scott went to Copenhagen on behalf of Mayor Richard Daley's Olympics bid team, his costs were not paid by the private group. Instead, he charged his airfare, hotel room, meals and bar tab to his expense account at the school board.
Scott, who traveled with his wife, stayed at the 71 Nyhavn, a four-star hotel on the Copenhagen waterfront from Sept. 29 until Oct. 3.
Weeks after his return, Scott's travel expenses came under scrutiny after the Tribune inquired about spending by board members.
That Nov. 2 inquiry prompted school administrators to review their expense-reimbursement policy and to share the newspaper's request with the schools inspector general's office.
Scott, a Daley loyalist, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head early Monday next to a River North bridge. Police have not found any note, and the motive for his suicide is unknown.
There has been no indication the recent public scrutiny Scott faced as board president, developer and Daley insider played any part in his death.
It's unclear whether Scott's claim for Olympics expenses violated the district's reimbursement policy. That policy states that board members should be repaid for expenses incurred while "in the performance of their duties."
Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the school system, said Tuesday that Scott had begun paying back the money, writing a check as recently as Nov. 8.
"I can confirm his trip to Copenhagen and that there's a preliminary inquiry into that," Bond said. "He was making payments on installments."
Schools Inspector General James Sullivan declined to comment.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
This news article says so much more than what the headline states....
Anytime any high profile official gets caught doing something like this the very first thing they do is pay the amount with personal funds to get the news story out of public eye and to end the investigation because I bet you any money that there are a bunch more credit card charges that don't belong on a work credit card that belong to Scott. But what did Scott do instead?
Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the school system, said Tuesday that Scott had begun paying back the money, writing a check as recently as Nov. 8.
AN INSTALLMENT PLAN ON BOGUS CHARGES??????? And not paid in full?
And #2: If Scott can just charge a Copenhagen trip on his Chicago Public Schools credit card without nobody at the CPS batting an eye... and nothing said about it till the news media brought this up. Imagine what else is being charged on all these officials credit cards????? Here we are talking about a trip with his wife to Copenhagen being charged to a CPS credit card and nobody at the cash strapped CPS said a thing. And this fucking prick Daley wants us to take furlough days as his pals are flying around the world on tax payers funds?
Every work credit card and check book issued to public officials should have every transaction published on the Internet so the public can see what is being charged and then paid for by us, the tax payers.
WHERE ARE THE DAMN REPORTERS IN THIS CITY???????
Just because a person is a police officer... it doesn't mean they are smart. Here is an example of a idiot cop based on this FBI press release.
Former Goddard Police Officer Sentenced to Probation for Wire Fraud WICHITA, KS — Former Goddard police officer Calvin Schaffer, 44, Goddard, Kan., has been sentenced to two years' probation and a $500 fine for wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch said today.
Schaffer pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in a wire fraud scheme to deprive citizens of his honest services as a member of the Goddard, Kan., Police Department. In his plea, he admitted that on Feb. 27, 2009, he arrested a woman for driving under the influence of alcohol. Later, he contacted the woman and suggested he could arrange for the charges to be dismissed if she would have sex with him. While on duty, Schaffer used police department computers to send e-mails and photographs to the woman. In the photos, he appeared partially undressed and nude. The messages traveled over the Internet through servers in California and Virginia.
Welch commended the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its work. Welch prosecuted the case.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Somethings really boggle my mind. How hard up must a male copper be to do this?
Thank you to our Sex & Cop News Reporter GirlCop5941 for this information.
Add another dead Chicago Public Schools Student to the murder toll - Maybe he went to see Michael Scott
Photo: Chicago Police gather evidence after a shooting on 87th Street near Commercial Avenue.A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed this afternoon in the South Chicago neighborhood.
The boy was shot in the chest about 3:15 p.m. in the 2900 block of East 87th Street, according to Chicago police.
He had been taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Quention Curtis.
A spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office declined to release the boy's identity pending notification of family members.
Monique Bond, a spokeswoman for Chicago Public Schools, said that the teen was a 10th-grader at Chicago Discovery Academy High School.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Monique Bond is now the spokesman for the Chicago Public Schools? Another political hack with another 6 figure job for basically doing NOTHING! Let's see her big pension from the CPD and now a 6 figure job with the CPS. She has to be making over $200,000.00 a year! And I wouldn't be surprised if she also had a trip to Copenhagen on her CPS issued credit card like Michael Scott did.
So Mayor Daley good pal Michael Scott who was the head of the Chgo. Bd. of Ed. broke the Mayor's own law and owned a handgun in the city?
New details point to Scott suicide, but top cop says investigation continues
A gun found under the body of Chicago school board president Michael Scott belonged to him and gunshot residue was found on his left hand, but Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis said today he's not ready yet to conclude Scott shot himself in the head.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Imagine that? The Mayor's own buddy, the guy the Mayor picked to head up several different agencies during his Mayoral term BROKE THE MAYOR'S OWN LAW ABOUT HADGUNS AND OWNED A HANDGUN HIMSELF!!! Hmmmm What does that say about the Mayor's gun law?
If this happens kiss Chicago off the map - The economic domino effect will be a major disaster
THE THIRD MAJOR CONVENTION MAY BE LEAVING CHICAGO
Sources: Restaurant show considers leaving Chicago
Chicago's standing as a trade show center faces yet another pummeling as the National Restaurant Association weighs whether to take its 2012 trade show elsewhere, according to sources close to the negotiations.
An exit by this McCormick Place star--a top show here for more than a half-century--would be a third brutal punch to the city, which in the past week lost two other shows.
The plastics industry trade show, a triennial event, announced Tuesday it will move its 2012 and 2015 shows to Orlando after nearly four decades in Chicago. And the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society last week said it would move its 2012 annual meeting to Las Vegas.
Both cited the cost of doing business in Chicago as the major factor in their decisions.
Though restaurant show attendance fell 24 percent this year, to 54,000 exhibitors and potential buyers, the event still pumped an estimated $86 million into the local economy, according to the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau. The show is committed to remain here in 2010 and 2011.
The bureau, which markets McCormick Place, declined comment. And officials at the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which owns and operates the convention hall, could not be reached for immediate comment.
Derrek Hull, a spokesman for the restaurant show, said, "I'm not aware of any discussion about moving the show as of right now."
"However, what I can tell you," said Hull, "is that we've been through this before ... and the association and all our exhibitors continue to be very vocal. They continue to be concerned about the costs of doing business in Chicago and at McCormick Place."
The association seriously contemplated a move in 2006, but chose to stay after the city wrested labor work-rule changes from unions that work at McCormick Place.
The current talks are continuing, with top Chicago convention officials talking with restaurant officials Wednesday, according to one source close to the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Possible alternative locations include Las Vegas and Orlando, the city's chief rivals in the convention business.
Jerry Roper, president and chief executive of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, said he has heard rumblings about the potential for losing the show, but could not confirm that talks were under way.
But he said the city's business and labor communities need to band together to fight to keep the show.
A task force was convened Wednesday morning to review all aspects of doing convention business in Chicago.
Those at the table included the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority; the convention bureau; representatives from the office of the mayor, governor, the Illinois House speaker and the Illinois Senate president; labor leaders; show contractors; and hospitality industry leaders, including those representing hotels and restaurants.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
No annual revenue coming in from the SKYWAY, PARKING METERS & THE UNDERGROUND PARKING combined with over $200,000,000.00 in loss spending in Chicago due to the 3 major Chicago conventions leaving and we are heading straight to Detroit.
This is no Chicken Little saying the sky is falling. This is the fricken sky falling with a giant lead weight on top of it!
Sources: Restaurant show considers leaving Chicago
Chicago's standing as a trade show center faces yet another pummeling as the National Restaurant Association weighs whether to take its 2012 trade show elsewhere, according to sources close to the negotiations.
An exit by this McCormick Place star--a top show here for more than a half-century--would be a third brutal punch to the city, which in the past week lost two other shows.
The plastics industry trade show, a triennial event, announced Tuesday it will move its 2012 and 2015 shows to Orlando after nearly four decades in Chicago. And the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society last week said it would move its 2012 annual meeting to Las Vegas.
Both cited the cost of doing business in Chicago as the major factor in their decisions.
Though restaurant show attendance fell 24 percent this year, to 54,000 exhibitors and potential buyers, the event still pumped an estimated $86 million into the local economy, according to the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau. The show is committed to remain here in 2010 and 2011.
The bureau, which markets McCormick Place, declined comment. And officials at the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which owns and operates the convention hall, could not be reached for immediate comment.
Derrek Hull, a spokesman for the restaurant show, said, "I'm not aware of any discussion about moving the show as of right now."
"However, what I can tell you," said Hull, "is that we've been through this before ... and the association and all our exhibitors continue to be very vocal. They continue to be concerned about the costs of doing business in Chicago and at McCormick Place."
The association seriously contemplated a move in 2006, but chose to stay after the city wrested labor work-rule changes from unions that work at McCormick Place.
The current talks are continuing, with top Chicago convention officials talking with restaurant officials Wednesday, according to one source close to the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Possible alternative locations include Las Vegas and Orlando, the city's chief rivals in the convention business.
Jerry Roper, president and chief executive of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, said he has heard rumblings about the potential for losing the show, but could not confirm that talks were under way.
But he said the city's business and labor communities need to band together to fight to keep the show.
A task force was convened Wednesday morning to review all aspects of doing convention business in Chicago.
Those at the table included the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority; the convention bureau; representatives from the office of the mayor, governor, the Illinois House speaker and the Illinois Senate president; labor leaders; show contractors; and hospitality industry leaders, including those representing hotels and restaurants.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
No annual revenue coming in from the SKYWAY, PARKING METERS & THE UNDERGROUND PARKING combined with over $200,000,000.00 in loss spending in Chicago due to the 3 major Chicago conventions leaving and we are heading straight to Detroit.
This is no Chicken Little saying the sky is falling. This is the fricken sky falling with a giant lead weight on top of it!
A felony hate crime? You got to be kidding! All the felon cases we can't get charges approved on and this one is charged?
A southwest suburban woman has been charged with a hate crime for an alleged attack on a Muslim woman at a grocery earlier this month.
Amal Abusumayah was paying for groceries at the Jewel store at 17117 S. Harlem Ave. in Tinley Park on Nov. 7 when she felt a sharp tug on her headscarf. When she looked at who had pulled her hijab, she saw a woman who moments before had made a derogatory comment about Islam.
On Wednesday, Tinley Park police announced that Valerie Kenney, 54, has been charged with a hate crime, a felony that carries a possible sentence of up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000.
"I was shaken up," Abusumayah told the SouthtownStar about the Nov. 7 assault. "This is my dignity and this is my religion."
Ahmed Rehab of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said his organization has reached out to the FBI to pursue federal charges.
Kenney is scheduled to appear in bond court in Bridgeview later Wednesday.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
OMG! This white lady pulled the towel head's scarf! Sounds like she should go to jail for life! How dare she pull the scarf of a Muslim!
Seriously folks, does this incident really deserve a felony charge? The nation was in a uproar again about another Muslim committing an attack against us and this woman filled with emotions about the killings pulls this towel head's scarf and it's a FELONY HATE CRIME? Give me a fucking break already.
Alderman wants police disciplinary board to explain votes
Chicago Ald. Robert Fioretti is this month's asswipe award winner!
Chicago’s disciplinary board for police officers would have to explain its votes for the first time and would see its compensation slashed under a resolution introduced today by Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd).
Fioretti is reacting to a recently released report by the Chicago Justice Project that showed four of the Chicago Police Board’s nine members missed more than 20 percent of the board’s meetings over the last decade.
“They get stale serving on these boards,” Fioretti said. “They look at it as a place to show up and get a paycheck. The board needs fresh blood.”
The Chicago Justice Project study reviewed 312 cases filed for review by the police board between 1999 and 2008.
The study echoed a Chicago Sun-Times analysis last year that pointed out the board doesn’t give written explanations of its votes — unlike the city’s Human Resources Board, which oversees discipline for other city workers.
“We need more clarity in terms of the decisions they make,” Fioretti said.
Fioretti is proposing that board members’ individual votes on officers’ disciplinary cases be posted within two business days on the Chicago Police Board’s Web site and stay online for at least two years. He also is proposing that all findings and decisions — including an explanation of the reasoning behind them and a rationale for dissenting votes — be posted online for two years, too.
Mayor Daley appoints the civilian members of Chicago Police Board, including the chairman. Fioretti’s proposed ordinance would have the board members appoint the chairman after considering a recommendation from the mayor.
Fioretti also would like to chop the compensation board members get.
In 2008, board members received an annual stipend of $15,000, while chairman Demetrius Carney received $25,000. Fioretti proposes cutting members’ compensation to $5,000 and the board chairman’s to $7,500.
Fioretti also would like to establish term limits for the board. Under his ordinance, they could only serve two five-year terms.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
I want you to please listen to what this asswipe Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd Ward)said...
“They get stale serving on these boards,” Fioretti said. “They look at it as a place to show up and get a paycheck. The board needs fresh blood.”
Is this asswipe talking about the police board or is he talking about himself and the fellow Aldermen? A Chicago Alderman talking about terms limits, you know he isn't talking about the Chicago City Council.
If ANYBODY has a bunch of old corrupt jagoffs in their administration or group it is the CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL itself!
Chicago’s disciplinary board for police officers would have to explain its votes for the first time and would see its compensation slashed under a resolution introduced today by Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd).
Fioretti is reacting to a recently released report by the Chicago Justice Project that showed four of the Chicago Police Board’s nine members missed more than 20 percent of the board’s meetings over the last decade.
“They get stale serving on these boards,” Fioretti said. “They look at it as a place to show up and get a paycheck. The board needs fresh blood.”
The Chicago Justice Project study reviewed 312 cases filed for review by the police board between 1999 and 2008.
The study echoed a Chicago Sun-Times analysis last year that pointed out the board doesn’t give written explanations of its votes — unlike the city’s Human Resources Board, which oversees discipline for other city workers.
“We need more clarity in terms of the decisions they make,” Fioretti said.
Fioretti is proposing that board members’ individual votes on officers’ disciplinary cases be posted within two business days on the Chicago Police Board’s Web site and stay online for at least two years. He also is proposing that all findings and decisions — including an explanation of the reasoning behind them and a rationale for dissenting votes — be posted online for two years, too.
Mayor Daley appoints the civilian members of Chicago Police Board, including the chairman. Fioretti’s proposed ordinance would have the board members appoint the chairman after considering a recommendation from the mayor.
Fioretti also would like to chop the compensation board members get.
In 2008, board members received an annual stipend of $15,000, while chairman Demetrius Carney received $25,000. Fioretti proposes cutting members’ compensation to $5,000 and the board chairman’s to $7,500.
Fioretti also would like to establish term limits for the board. Under his ordinance, they could only serve two five-year terms.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
I want you to please listen to what this asswipe Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd Ward)said...
“They get stale serving on these boards,” Fioretti said. “They look at it as a place to show up and get a paycheck. The board needs fresh blood.”
Is this asswipe talking about the police board or is he talking about himself and the fellow Aldermen? A Chicago Alderman talking about terms limits, you know he isn't talking about the Chicago City Council.
If ANYBODY has a bunch of old corrupt jagoffs in their administration or group it is the CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL itself!
Chicago Cop Finds Explosives Affixed To His Car At Court Parking Lot
Suspicious cans shut down courthouse garage
Authorities shut down the parking garage across the street from the Cook County Criminal Courts Building for about a half hour today after a law enforcement officer found two suspicious canisters attached to his vehicle.
The officer was leaving the garage at about 1:15 p.m. when he heard a rattling sound coming from his vehicle, according to Cook County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Patterson.
"The officer got out of his vehicle and found two rattling canisters adhered to his car," Patterson said.
The officer called for assistance. The investigation is being handled by members of the Chicago Police Bomb and Arson unit, Patterson said.
The garage was reopened at about 1:45 p.m.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
The media whore Sheriff Tom Dart was on WLS-AM radio talking about this incident. The two devises attached to the officer's personal vehicle were marked "EXPLOSIVES".
Pretty weird that a car bomb would actually be marked "EXPLOSIVES". Most bombs are wrapped in tape or have no markings on them at all.
It's called being Butt F*&ked to death
Man dies after collapsing in adult theater
A man died Tuesday after collapsing in an adult film theater in the Old Town neighborhood, Chicago police say.
The unidentified man, believed to be in his 40s or 50s, was found unresponsive at the Bijou Theater, 1349 N. Wells St. He was pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
An autopsy is scheduled for today.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
It's NOT AN ADULT THEATER... It's a gay orgy theater. More manseed has been shot in that place than all the whores in Chicago combined.
He probably drown in manseed if you ask me....
Here is why this Detective feels that Michael Scott had some serious money problems & much more - Read my comments below please
Michael Scott's use of board credit card probed
In recent weeks, Chicago school board President Michael Scott was facing scrutiny for using his board credit card to pay for a trip to Copenhagen to lobby for the city's Olympics bid.
The amount in question was not large -- about $3,000 -- and there's no indication that the matter had anything to do with Scott taking his life early Monday.
While Scott went to Copenhagen on behalf of Mayor Richard Daley's Olympics bid team, his costs were not paid by the private group. Instead, he charged his airfare, hotel room, meals and bar tab to his expense account at the school board.
Scott, who traveled with his wife, stayed at the 71 Nyhavn, a four-star hotel on the Copenhagen waterfront from Sept. 29 until Oct. 3.
Weeks after his return, Scott's travel expenses came under scrutiny after the Tribune inquired about spending by board members.
That Nov. 2 inquiry prompted school administrators to review their expense-reimbursement policy and to share the newspaper's request with the schools inspector general's office.
Scott, a Daley loyalist, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head early Monday next to a River North bridge. Police have not found any note, and the motive for his suicide is unknown.
There has been no indication the recent public scrutiny Scott faced as board president, developer and Daley insider played any part in his death.
It's unclear whether Scott's claim for Olympics expenses violated the district's reimbursement policy. That policy states that board members should be repaid for expenses incurred while "in the performance of their duties."
Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the school system, said Tuesday that Scott had begun paying back the money, writing a check as recently as Nov. 8.
"I can confirm his trip to Copenhagen and that there's a preliminary inquiry into that," Bond said. "He was making payments on installments."
Schools Inspector General James Sullivan declined to comment.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
This news article says so much more than what the headline states....
Anytime any high profile official gets caught doing something like this the very first thing they do is pay the amount with personal funds to get the news story out of public eye and to end the investigation because I bet you any money that there are a bunch more credit card charges that don't belong on a work credit card that belong to Scott. But what did Scott do instead?
Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the school system, said Tuesday that Scott had begun paying back the money, writing a check as recently as Nov. 8.
AN INSTALLMENT PLAN ON BOGUS CHARGES??????? And not paid in full?
And #2: If Scott can just charge a Copenhagen trip on his Chicago Public Schools credit card without nobody at the CPS batting an eye... and nothing said about it till the news media brought this up. Imagine what else is being charged on all these officials credit cards????? Here we are talking about a trip with his wife to Copenhagen being charged to a CPS credit card and nobody at the cash strapped CPS said a thing. And this fucking prick Daley wants us to take furlough days as his pals are flying around the world on tax payers funds?
Every work credit card and check book issued to public officials should have every transaction published on the Internet so the public can see what is being charged and then paid for by us, the tax payers.
WHERE ARE THE DAMN REPORTERS IN THIS CITY???????
So you don't think the economy is bad? Man robs 4 different Chicagoans - Total proceeds? Less than $2.00
Man in custody after North Side strong-armed robbery spree that netted $2.00
A 37-year-old man is in custody and faces strong-armed robbery charges after he robbed four different people on the North Side over a 90 minute period on Tuesday evening, police said.
The man, who has not been identified, is currently under medical attention after he told police that he had swallowed drugs, said Rogers Park District Lt. John Franklin.
"He ran up and snatched purses and wallets,'' said Franklin. "The total value lost was about $2 total. He just went nuts and decided to go on a spree."
The robberies happened on the 1300 block of West Lunt Avenue; the 6700 block of North Glenwood Avenue; the 6600 block of North Newgard Avenue; and the 7200 block of North Ashland. No one was hurt in the robberies, Franklin said.
The robberies occurred between about 9 p.m. and about 10:51 p.m. and his spree ended when he was arrested after the husband of a woman who was about to have her purse snatched on the 1300 block of West Lunt Avenue pointed him out to police, Franklin said.
The last victim was walking up the stairs to her home when the man ran up behind her and tried to take the woman's purse, Franklin said. The woman managed to bang on the door and summon her husband.
The man fled on foot but not before police were notified and the husband was able to give police the description of the man. The description, including the fact that he was wearing a distinctive orange jacket, matched that of the man for which police were searching in connection with the other robberies, Franklin said.
The man was caught on the 1500 block of West Lunt Avenue after he jumped over a fence. All four of his victims identified the man as the person who robbed them or attempted to rob them, Franklin said. None of the people were injured.
"I don't think he said much of any thing, he just came up and started grabbing their stuff,'' said Franklin said.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Robs four different people and the total take is about $2.00? He would haved scored more robbing four Pacific Garden Mission residents. How bad is the economy when 4 citizens have the combined cash of $2.00? LOL
President Barack Obama Lung Cancer Shocker
The Globe Reports: Chain-smoking President Barack Obama has lung cancer, White House sources fear as the Commander-in-Chief suffers chest pains, dizzy spells and has lost 25 pounds! _______________________________
Detective Shavedlongcock:
If in fact this is true the worst part of this news is that Joe "Hair Plugs" Biden would become president upon the passing of the president.
Due to that fact alone... Please stay healthy Mr. President!
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Obama visits half brother in Beijing
Though they met only in recent years, Mark Ndesandjo says his encounter with the president was "intense.".
Photo: Pres. Obama and his 1/2 brother Mark Ndesandjo Was Obama saying his goodbyes to his 1/2 brother?
AP Turns Heads for Devoting 11 Reporters to Palin Book 'Fact Check' - They devoted ZERO REPORTERS for Obama's Book
Reviewing books and holding public figures accountable is at the core of good journalism, but the Associated Press' treatment of Palin's book seems an unprecedented move at the wire service
Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently "Going Rogue" is no normal book.
When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages.
The AP claims Palin misstated her record with regard to travel expenses and taxpayer-funded bailouts, using statements widely reported elsewhere. But it also speculated into Palin's motives for writing "Going Rogue: An American Life," stating as fact that the book "has all the characteristics of a pre-campaign manifesto."
Palin quickly hit back on a Facebook post titled "Really? Still Making Things Up?"
"Imagine that," the post read. "11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to 'fact check' what's going on with Sheik Mohammed's trial, Pelosi's health care takeover costs, Hasan's associations, etc. Amazing."
The AP, an organization with over 4,000 employees and 49 Pulitzer Prizes earned for asking the hard questions, wouldn't comment on their own reporting for this story.
Reviewing books and holding public figures accountable is at the core of good journalism, but the treatment Palin's book received appears to be something new for the AP. The organization did not review for accuracy recent books by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, then-Sen. Joe Biden, either book by Barack Obama released before he was president or autobiographies by Bill or Hillary Clinton. The AP did more traditional news stories on those books.
The attraction to Palin doesn't appear to be partisan, since AP didn't fact-check recent political tomes by Republicans Rudy Giuliani or Newt Gingrich.
The AP, however, regularly writes "fact checks" for major political speeches, such as a September health care speech by President Obama.
Doug Underwood, a University of Washington journalism professor who covered Washington politics in the late 1970s for Gannett, said Palin brings some negative attention on herself with a history of bad interviews and misstatements. In addition, the press cannot ever be perfectly consistent or fair, he said.
Still, the media treated Biden and Palin differently, he said.
Biden's book "Promises to Keep" became an instant best-seller when he was chosen to be Obama's running mate, but was not fact-checked by the AP and only received passing interest. In a story last year on Biden's Vietnam War draft deferments due to asthma, the reporter notes Biden didn't mention the malady in his book.
Palin is not the standard presidential possibility for 2012, Underwood said.
"She's a figure who's a politician, but also a part of popular culture," he said.
Palin supporters believe 11 reporters poring over every word of her book is excessive- and further proof of the media's obsession and maltreatment of the hockey mom from Wasilla.
"They're obsessed with trying to discredit her," said Adrienne Ross, New York state organizer for the 2012 Draft Sarah Committee. "Because she's a conservative woman, they make fun of her accent, comment about her looks. She doesn't come in the package they want her to come in."
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
The "Double Standard" by the media in this country is truly unbelievable. The AP devotes 11 reporters to go over Palin's book but NONE for the crackhead Obama's book? But the media is fair.... really~
Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently "Going Rogue" is no normal book.
When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages.
The AP claims Palin misstated her record with regard to travel expenses and taxpayer-funded bailouts, using statements widely reported elsewhere. But it also speculated into Palin's motives for writing "Going Rogue: An American Life," stating as fact that the book "has all the characteristics of a pre-campaign manifesto."
Palin quickly hit back on a Facebook post titled "Really? Still Making Things Up?"
"Imagine that," the post read. "11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to 'fact check' what's going on with Sheik Mohammed's trial, Pelosi's health care takeover costs, Hasan's associations, etc. Amazing."
The AP, an organization with over 4,000 employees and 49 Pulitzer Prizes earned for asking the hard questions, wouldn't comment on their own reporting for this story.
Reviewing books and holding public figures accountable is at the core of good journalism, but the treatment Palin's book received appears to be something new for the AP. The organization did not review for accuracy recent books by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, then-Sen. Joe Biden, either book by Barack Obama released before he was president or autobiographies by Bill or Hillary Clinton. The AP did more traditional news stories on those books.
The attraction to Palin doesn't appear to be partisan, since AP didn't fact-check recent political tomes by Republicans Rudy Giuliani or Newt Gingrich.
The AP, however, regularly writes "fact checks" for major political speeches, such as a September health care speech by President Obama.
Doug Underwood, a University of Washington journalism professor who covered Washington politics in the late 1970s for Gannett, said Palin brings some negative attention on herself with a history of bad interviews and misstatements. In addition, the press cannot ever be perfectly consistent or fair, he said.
Still, the media treated Biden and Palin differently, he said.
Biden's book "Promises to Keep" became an instant best-seller when he was chosen to be Obama's running mate, but was not fact-checked by the AP and only received passing interest. In a story last year on Biden's Vietnam War draft deferments due to asthma, the reporter notes Biden didn't mention the malady in his book.
Palin is not the standard presidential possibility for 2012, Underwood said.
"She's a figure who's a politician, but also a part of popular culture," he said.
Palin supporters believe 11 reporters poring over every word of her book is excessive- and further proof of the media's obsession and maltreatment of the hockey mom from Wasilla.
"They're obsessed with trying to discredit her," said Adrienne Ross, New York state organizer for the 2012 Draft Sarah Committee. "Because she's a conservative woman, they make fun of her accent, comment about her looks. She doesn't come in the package they want her to come in."
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
The "Double Standard" by the media in this country is truly unbelievable. The AP devotes 11 reporters to go over Palin's book but NONE for the crackhead Obama's book? But the media is fair.... really~
The Ouch File: Man Who Said He Was a Ninja Impaled on Fence in Failed Jump
SEATTLE — Seattle police say a man who thought he was a ninja was impaled on a metal fence when he tried to leap over it.
An officer who was looking for an assault victim nearby Monday night heard the man screaming for help.
Police supported him to prevent further injuries until medics arrived and took him to a hospital, where he was in serious condition in intensive care on Tuesday.
Police spokeswoman Renee Witt wrote in a department Web site posting that officers thought the man might have been involved in the reported assault, but he insisted he was just a ninja trying to clear a 4- to 5-foot-tall fence.
Witt says the man was "overconfident in his abilities," and that alcohol likely played a role.
His name was not released.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Alcohol Likely Related? No way.... I have heard of beer muscles but never beer ninjas.
11/17/09
The jagoff Mayor Daley DEMANDS unions take a pay cut at McCormick Place but the city won't roll back any of the big taxes they charge
Daley demands union action to keep trade shows
Mayor Daley is demanding yet another round of concessions from McCormick Place unions to cut trade show operating costs and stop an exodus that has cost Chicago two major shows in the last week.
After nearly 40 years in Chicago, the plastics industry trade show is moving to Orlando for 2012 and 2015.
Tuesday’s blow comes on the heels of last week’s decision by a marquee medical trade show to move from Chicago to Las Vegas.
The plastics show is held every three years and reportedly saw attendance for its June show at McCormick Place drop 28 percent. Afterwards, exhibitors complained—to everybody from the mayor on down--about the cost of putting up and tearing down booths in Chicago.
The message has gotten through to Daley.
“It’s a very serious loss…It’s a major show. They were very upset with a lot of the rules and regulations that…McCormick Place has. When I met with the [trade show association] president and others, they were very concerned about the cost factor compared to Orlando, Atlanta and Vegas,” Daley said.
Click here for the full news story
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Boy o'boy this asshole Mayor has some balls. Mayor Daley is DEMANDING that unions take yet another pay cut but not one mention that the city has the highest hotel tax, highest rent-a-car tax, highest sales tax and highest loop entertainment tax in the COUNTRY... In other words the working man should keep taking wage cuts as the city keeps jacking up their taxes.... FUCK YOU Mr. Shortshanks. Funny how you can charge the HIGHEST TAX in the NATION but the working man needs to have his/her wages cut AGAIN!
These conventions spend more money on your sales taxes than on union wages.
I guess the working man is suppose to be paid less as the city is actually paid the HIGHEST in the country. Makes sense to me......
Don't Forget! Sgt. Roy Kwilos & Sgt Ray Madigan retirement party tonight
115th Bourbon Street - Starts at 5 pm!
Two great guys! Two great Cops!
This is back when a woman really loved and trusted their husband
CLICK TO WATCH THIS VIDEO. A man testing bulletproof glass in 1932....
From Rick S....Thank you....
From Rick S....Thank you....
Mayor Daley: Officials may never solve Scott's death
Suicide is an illness that's impossible to explain or understand, Mayor Daley said today, that officials may never never solve the mystery surrounding the death of Chicago Public Schools President Michael Scott.
The Cook County Medical Examiner has ruled Scott's death early Monday a suicide.
His voice choking with emotion, Daley said Scott was "like part of my family" and his death leaves an incalculable loss.
Friends and family insist that Scott had too much to live for and was too great of a fighter to take his own life. Daley agreed.
"You are right," he said. "This is not Michael. But you know people when unfortunately suicide has taken place. It's not who you think they are. It's something that we don't know why. I wish we could find out. It's a very serious illness that takes over people."
He called Scott "an extraordinary public servant."
"I never had to worry about Michael. I could give him an assignment — the park district, the board of education, the RTA. I never even had to second guess him."
Daley said Scott worked well in tense situations and was able to "calm people down" no matter how heated the issue.
Daley said police would continue the investigation into the final hours before Scott's body was discovered in the Chicago River with a gunshot wound to his temple.
He said police will make sure "nothing was left on the table" in the investigation.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Mayor Daley's voice was shaking because he is scared about how close the feds really are. Because Ald. Carothers has Michael Scott on tape talking and I bet some of that talk is about the Olympic money that they STOLE.
WOW! Official says NYPD raids circulation offices of 4 newspapers in corruption probe
NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators in New York City raided circulation offices at some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a union corruption probe, a law enforcement official said.
Police officers working with the Manhattan district attorney's office searched circulation offices of The New York Times in Queens, the New York Post and the Daily News in Manhattan, and El Diario in Brooklyn, the official said, speaking to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Investigators were seeking paperwork related to the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union, which packages and delivers newspapers across the region.
Calls to the union's headquarters were not answered Tuesday. The news deliverers' parent union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, referred inquiries to the local union.
The New York Times issued a statement saying that the office of an employee at its plant in Queens' College Point area had been searched but that its news side was not part of the investigation.
Rosana Rosado, publisher of El Diario-La Prensa, also said that the Spanish-language newspaper is not a subject of the investigation and that the search warrant was seeking information into allegations of corruption at the union.
Bob Leonard of Dan Klores Communications, speaking for the Daily News, declined to comment on the raid. A call to the Post was not returned.
The 1,600-member union wields considerable power over news companies that rely on their drivers to deliver hundreds of thousands of papers each day, and allegations of connections to organized crime are not new.
District Attorney Robert Morgenthau charged that the union was under mob control more than a decade ago, after an investigation that also involved a 1992 search of the Post and Daily News offices.
The probe led to criminal charges against union members including then-President Douglas LaChance, who authorities accused of being an associate of the Luchese crime family. He was acquitted in 1995 of strong-arming the Post into switching delivery companies.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Something you will never see in Chicago. Imagine trying to get a search warrant for even one local newspaper building here in Chicago. Daley and J-Fed would be shaking in their panties.
More Bad Breeders - Mother and Boyfriend are guilty in the murder of her 5 year old daughter
Mom pleads guilty to killing her 5-year-old daughter
A Maine Township woman pleaded guilty at the Skokie courthouse today to the horrific 2007 child abuse death of her 5-year-old daughter and is scheduled to be sentenced in December, prosecutors said.
Mila Petrov, 31, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Melanie, who died in March of 2007 at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge after years of physical and mental abuse at the hands of her mother, said Cook County Assistant State's Atty. Rick Cenar.
Petrov pleaded guilty today to first-degree murder for "knowingly and intentionally killing her daughter with blunt force to the head," Cenar said.
Petrov wept in court today as Cenar read a statement describing how Melanie suffered years of beatings and cruel punishments. He said that the last beating happened on March 13, 2007 and started when Petrov got angry after Melanie vomited.
He said Petrov told authorities she struck her daughter in the back of the head causing her head to hit a wall and that when Melanie denied getting sick, Petrov threatened to put hot sauce on her daughter's tongue for lying, a punishment she often used, said Cenar.
Petrov then took her daughter into another room and hit her again, causing her to strike her head on the floor, said Cenar. He said Petrov left the room and told authorities that when she returned a short time later Melanie's sister was beating her. Petrov told police that Melanie was not breathing and that she did not have a heartbeat, but that she did not immediately call an ambulance because she feared she would get into trouble, Cenar said.
He said that instead of calling for help Petrov quickly cleaned her house while her daughter lay dead or dying on the floor. He said Petrov eventually called her husband, Carlos Beltran, and asked him what to do and that he told her to call an ambulance. When help arrived, Melanie was not breathing and did not have a heartbeat, Cenar said.
In June, Carlos Beltran, 34, pleaded guilty to aggravated battery of a child in Melanie's death and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors said he was not home on the day Melanie died but that he knew of the abuse and had participated in the abuse in the past. He was scheduled to testify against Petrov had her case gone to trial.
Cenar said doctors examining Melanie at the hospital were unable to resuscitate her and were immediately suspicious that Melanie had died as a result of child abuse because she was covered in old and new bruises and other injuries, including burns from scalding hot bath water. Petrov, who was nine months pregnant at the time of the crime, eventually admitted to beating all her children but said Melanie was often beat more severely than the others because she "was the baddest," Cenar said.
"She hit Melanie a lot," he said.
He also said prosecutors had been seeking the death penalty in the case but are now asking that Petrov be given an extended prison term of between 60 and 100 years when she is sentenced by Cook County Circuit Court judge, Garritt Howard Dec. 10 at the Skokie courthouse.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Like I have said so many times on this blog... Time to bring back the public hangings for all to see. These two pieces of shit should not be living at our expense. Time to end their tax absorbing.
Chicago loses another major convention - High cost and Super High Daley Taxes chases another one away.
Plastic industry trade show says no to Chicago
McCormick Place is losing a second key piece of its convention business within a week, as the plastics industry trade show has decided to move to Orlando for 2012 and 2015 after nearly four decades in Chicago, sources tell the Tribune.
The formal announcement, expected to be made at a 10 a.m. press conference today, comes on the heels of a decision by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society last week to move its 2012 annual meeting to Las Vegas.
The losses to the city's chief rivals occur as the deep recession is cutting into the tourism and convention business, leading the agency that runs McCormick Place and Navy Pier to decide Monday to trim its work force by 20 percent, or about 100 positions, as part of a larger cost-cutting program aimed at trimming a projected $28.8 million deficit this fiscal year. The expected shortfall is more than triple what had been anticipated.
The plastics show, produced by SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association, is triennial. The trade group's 2009 show held in June at McCormick Place saw a 28 percent drop in attendance, to 44,000. And exhibitors complained to the trade association about the costs of exhibiting at McCormick Place.
The show is expected to be the 9th largest for the convention hall this year, generating an estimated $95.3 million in spending locally. That economic impact is down from $154.7 million for the 2006 show.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Another $100 MILLION not going to be spent in Chicago. Keep adding up these $100 MILLIONS not being spent in Chicago and the Chicago hotels, restaurants and retailers are all going to close up. Daley sold off as many of our revenue agencies as possible and now we are losing HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in Chicago area sales.... We are in deep trouble.
Something fishy here - City announced last month 26% increase in parking tickets issued - This month, City's parking ticket revenue plummets
Something fishy here - City announced last month 26% increase in parking tickets issued - This month, City's parking ticket revenue plummets
Revenue collected for parking ticket fines was off on average nearly $1 million a month between May and August 2009, compared with the same time in 2008. This comes as the city is trying to fill a $520 million budget hole.
In all, revenue dropped $3.9 million during that period, according to the city, which provided the figures in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Chicago Sun-Times and NBC5 News.
City Hall is tight-lipped about the shortfall. A spokesman for the Department of Revenue declined a request to interview Director Bea Reyna-Hickey.
Last December, the Chicago City Council approved the mayor's plan to privatize the city's 36,000 parking meters. The 75-year deal meant more than $1.1 billion dollars to a city strapped for cash. Old meters were replaced with new kiosks, and the cost to park on Chicago's streets increased, prompting outrage by many who found they had to repeatedly deposit quarters.
Rates go up again in January.
There were more than 12,000 extra tickets written from May through August 2009 as compared with those months in 2008. Enforcement hours are up by 27 percent, according to the city.
Aldermen said their constituents are fighting mad when it comes to parking and tickets. "I agree we are in a bad revenue situation," said Ald. Tom Allen, (38th Ward). "But I'm tired of us beating the daylights out of John Q. Citizen to get 50 bucks out of him because he overstayed his parking."
"At every community meeting, people are questioning us about the fact that we are attempting to collect more revenue from the tickets," said Ald. Freddrenna Lyle, (6th Ward).
According to Lyle, the economy is to blame if people are in fact not paying parking tickets promptly. "If you've lost your job," she said, "and you have to make choices between keeping the gas on, keeping the lights on or paying the tickets, you are going to take a chance you are going to get the boot and pay the lights and the gas."
Department of Revenue spokesman Ed Walsh said in 2008 the city included collection costs when reporting how much money was received in fines. That changed this year, causing part of the decrease in reported revenue.
The city is looking for increased ways to find revenue. Last week, the Web site TheExpiredMeter.com reported the city has begun booting cars with more than two unpaid tickets, 24 hours a day.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS? (Department of Revenue spokesman Ed Walsh said in 2008 the city included collection costs when reporting how much money was received in fines. That changed this year, causing part of the decrease in reported revenue.) Sounds like the not reported revenue went to a Daley fund to be used for what Daley needed cash for.
Revenue collected for parking ticket fines was off on average nearly $1 million a month between May and August 2009, compared with the same time in 2008. This comes as the city is trying to fill a $520 million budget hole.
In all, revenue dropped $3.9 million during that period, according to the city, which provided the figures in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Chicago Sun-Times and NBC5 News.
City Hall is tight-lipped about the shortfall. A spokesman for the Department of Revenue declined a request to interview Director Bea Reyna-Hickey.
Last December, the Chicago City Council approved the mayor's plan to privatize the city's 36,000 parking meters. The 75-year deal meant more than $1.1 billion dollars to a city strapped for cash. Old meters were replaced with new kiosks, and the cost to park on Chicago's streets increased, prompting outrage by many who found they had to repeatedly deposit quarters.
Rates go up again in January.
There were more than 12,000 extra tickets written from May through August 2009 as compared with those months in 2008. Enforcement hours are up by 27 percent, according to the city.
Aldermen said their constituents are fighting mad when it comes to parking and tickets. "I agree we are in a bad revenue situation," said Ald. Tom Allen, (38th Ward). "But I'm tired of us beating the daylights out of John Q. Citizen to get 50 bucks out of him because he overstayed his parking."
"At every community meeting, people are questioning us about the fact that we are attempting to collect more revenue from the tickets," said Ald. Freddrenna Lyle, (6th Ward).
According to Lyle, the economy is to blame if people are in fact not paying parking tickets promptly. "If you've lost your job," she said, "and you have to make choices between keeping the gas on, keeping the lights on or paying the tickets, you are going to take a chance you are going to get the boot and pay the lights and the gas."
Department of Revenue spokesman Ed Walsh said in 2008 the city included collection costs when reporting how much money was received in fines. That changed this year, causing part of the decrease in reported revenue.
The city is looking for increased ways to find revenue. Last week, the Web site TheExpiredMeter.com reported the city has begun booting cars with more than two unpaid tickets, 24 hours a day.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS? (Department of Revenue spokesman Ed Walsh said in 2008 the city included collection costs when reporting how much money was received in fines. That changed this year, causing part of the decrease in reported revenue.) Sounds like the not reported revenue went to a Daley fund to be used for what Daley needed cash for.
11/16/09
FOP announces that 4 & 2 has been approved
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2009
WORK SCHEDULE UPDATE 11/16/09
Today, the Lodge and the City signed the agreement which is the revised memorandum of understanding for work day schedules. These revisions will become operational on January 10th, 2010. The revised memorandum maintains the current Pilot Programs that have been in effect since the start of this year and expands the 4-2 schedule to all districts and the three remaining Detective Areas that are not in a pilot program.
This agreement came as a result of a substantial amount time and input from all of the parties involved and is commonly viewed as a win win situation for all involved. This Lodge proposal was a continuation of efforts that have been made for the past 15 years in negotiations to address a work schedule that has been around for at least 45 years. Both sides of the table were able to recognize the advantages for the Police Department and the people in the communities in which we serve.
The complete Memorandum, dated today, will be posted on the Current Contract Page of this site. We anticipate the publication of orders surrounding the Watch and Furlough Selection processes in the very near future.
Taking effect on 10 January. Here's how it affects everyone immediately:
· 17 November: publish notice
· 17 - 24 November: submit watch selections
· 25 November - 02 December: process watches and make new day off group assignments
· 02 December: post watch selections
· 03 - 17 December: select furloughs
· 17 - 22 December: process furloughs
· 23 December: post furlough selections
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FOP POSTING ON THIS NEWLY APPROVED SCHEDULE
Ghetto Baby Breeder cuts in line at Walmart and it's racist that she was arrested
Arrest at Walmart Leads to (BULLSHIT) Charges of Racism
ST. LOUIS — Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store and touched off what she calls a racially charged dispute with white customers and authorities, the young black schoolteacher faces a trial that could send her to prison for 15 years.
Witnesses have told authorities that Ellis cut in front of waiting customers at the Walmart in Kennett on Jan. 6, 2007, shoved merchandise already placed on a conveyor belt out of the way, and became belligerent when confronted, according to court filings.
Ellis maintains she was merely joining her cousin, whose checkout line was moving more quickly. She claimed in a written complaint to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that she was then pushed by a white customer, hassled by store employees, called racial slurs and physically mistreated by Kennett police officers.
Police say in court documents that Ellis refused requests to calm down and leave the property, allegedly kicking one's shin and splitting another's lip while resisting arrest. Her trial on charges of assaulting police officers, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace begins Wednesday in Dunklin County Circuit Court. Syracuse, N.Y.-based Your Black World Coalition is organizing a Monday rally in Kennett.
A college student in New Orleans at the time of her arrest, the 24-year-old Ellis now teaches in Louisiana, where she is engaged to a state trooper. She has said she feels trapped by "small-town politics" in Kennett, where her family lives.
"What a shame the system can destroy a young person's future like this because of bad cops," Ellis wrote to the NAACP in April.
The group subsequently held a rally in Kennett. Before the June 13 event began, police officers found threatening letters the size of business cards scattered along the route that said the Ku Klux Klan had paid a visit and "the next visit will not be social."
Dunklin County Prosecutor Stephen Sokoloff said the cards were removed and the source investigated but never discovered. He said he doubts the cards actually were from the KKK; he knows of no KKK presence in the area. A call to the KKK headquarters was not answered.
As for Ellis' allegations of mistreatment by law enforcement, Sokoloff said he's "seen absolutely no evidence of any kind, apart from her statements, that those things occurred." Kennett Police Chief Barry Tate did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Kennett is a town of roughly 11,000 residents, about 1,500 of them black. The police department also is predominantly white, but has actively worked to recruit more women and minorities, said longtime resident Charles B. Brown, who served as mayor from 1991 to 2003.
"We're a small country town with greater problems than racism. Our problems are economic," he said, explaining that Kennett needs more jobs.
Some community leaders fear the "big paint roller" being used by observers of Ellis' case has resulted in unfair portrayals of the town as prejudiced.
"They're searching their hearts and minds, and that's just not us," he said.
Sokoloff said he would have filed the same charges regardless of the races of those involved. Last week, he took himself off the case, telling the Southeast Missourian newspaper he hoped it would refocus attention on the facts. A special prosecutor from Cape Girardeau County was appointed.
Ellis and her lawyers, Scott Rosenblum and T.J. Hunsaker in St. Louis, declined to comment on the specifics of the case. She has previously rejected plea deals.
"Why would you plea bargain if you're innocent?" said Ellis' father, the Rev. Nathaniel Ellis of Kennett.
"This is not a matter of justice," he said. "It's a vendetta."
Ellis' written account to the NAACP describes she and her cousin getting into separate checkout lanes before Ellis switched into the faster-moving line. The woman behind them had placed items on the conveyor belt, and Ellis alleged the woman pushed her when she tried to put her own items down.
Witnesses instead told police that Ellis shoved the woman's merchandise back, according to court filings.
Ellis wrote that a security officer and manager were called over and that although Ellis said she wanted to pay, the manager yelled at her to leave the store. Police were called and arrived.
Officers eventually followed her to the parking lot, she said, using racial slurs and telling her to go back to the ghetto. As her aunt and uncle drove into the parking lot, Ellis said, the officers "jumped" on her even though she said she was not resisting.
Officer A.W. Fisher wrote in a probable cause statement that Ellis was given "every opportunity" to comply with officers and leave the property. He said she used an expletive in telling him she would beat him if he put his hands on her.
Fisher said he then told Ellis she was under arrest, but she would not stop fighting while being handcuffed.
Following her arrest, Ellis alleged, she was thrown against doors on the way into jail and an officer later twisted her shirt with his knuckle to choke her while she was in custody.
"Incidents involving our customers are unfortunate and we take them seriously," Walmart spokesman Lorenzo Lopez said in a statement earlier this month. "In this matter, there was a disturbance and law enforcement was contacted, in accordance with our normal procedures. The police then determined how to proceed."
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
This is where conceal and carry really comes in handy. Just put this Fat Walrus Wilderbeast out of her misery. But based on her complaint, which I do hope is true, she got her ass kicked a few times during this incident. And rightfully so! So kindly shove the NAACP up your fat nasty ass and get lost~!
I was e-mailed this by Country Guy.... If he/she would send me more info on this - I will also post it
Hey Country Guy....
Where can people buy tickets?
How much is it?
Please let us know........
Salutes at Kelvyn Park High for soldier slain at Ft. Hood
The body of Army Pfc. Francheska Velez departs Midway Airport this morning. (Heather Charles/Chicago Tribune)Francheska Velez was so eager to join the Army, she served with the Junior Officer Training Corps before graduating from Kelvyn Park High School in 2006.
Today, members of the corps saluted as a procession carrying Velez's body passed by her old school. Her body was returned home this morning, more than a week after she and 12 other soldiers were gunned down at Fort Hood.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Godspeed Army Pfc. Francheska Velez. Your family and friends are in my prayers. Thank you for your selfless service.
Watch for the city to pay for and send a bunch of Fenger HS students to a private school that your child might be attending.... ALL FOR FREE
Working an extra job or two to send your kids to non-gang member riddled private school? Well watch who will be going to that school with the CPS picking up the tab. INSIDE SOURCES HAVE CONFIRMED IT.
Judge orders Chicago Public Schools to discuss transfers with Fenger students
10 students filed lawsuit seeking transfers to other schoolsA federal judge on Monday instructed Chicago Public Schools to discuss transfer options with Fenger High School students who want to change schools because they feel unsafe following the beating death of a student.
Ten Fenger students filed a lawsuit against the school system last week alleging that their right to a public education is being denied because the district will not allow them to transfer.
"My clients want to go to school. They simply asked CPS to do everything reasonable to protect their safety," said Christopher Cooper, the students' attorney. "CPS made a promise to allow my clients to transfer and CPS has not followed through with that promise."
At least 100 students have transferred from Fenger since classes started, school system lawyer Susan O'Keefe said. The school district has been "swift and targeted" in its response to Derrion Albert's Sept. 24 beating death, she said.
Judge orders Chicago Public Schools to discuss transfers with Fenger students
10 students filed lawsuit seeking transfers to other schoolsA federal judge on Monday instructed Chicago Public Schools to discuss transfer options with Fenger High School students who want to change schools because they feel unsafe following the beating death of a student.
Ten Fenger students filed a lawsuit against the school system last week alleging that their right to a public education is being denied because the district will not allow them to transfer.
"My clients want to go to school. They simply asked CPS to do everything reasonable to protect their safety," said Christopher Cooper, the students' attorney. "CPS made a promise to allow my clients to transfer and CPS has not followed through with that promise."
At least 100 students have transferred from Fenger since classes started, school system lawyer Susan O'Keefe said. The school district has been "swift and targeted" in its response to Derrion Albert's Sept. 24 beating death, she said.
Even More Death News - NC searchers find body of missing 5-year-old girl - Ghetto Food Stamp Mother Being Held
SANFORD, N.C. — For a week, authorities feverishly searched for a 5-year-old girl across central North Carolina, only to find her body Monday off a rural road following accusations the girl's mother offered her for sex.
The investigation into the disappearance of Shaniya Davis yielded the arrest of her mother and two other men, though one man was later released. Searchers found Shaniya dumped into the woods 30 miles from her hometown of Fayetteville. Hundreds of volunteers hoping to find her alive left the site of the search dejected, unable to bring Shaniya home to an emotional father, her 7-year-old brother and the dolls she loved to play with.
"I still feel kind of sick to my stomach," said Angela Jackson, 27, from nearby Sanford, who has a two-month-old daughter but searched for consecutive days.
Particularly disturbing were the accusations lodged against Shaniya's mother, 25-year-old Antoinette Davis. Police charged Davis with human trafficking and felony child abuse, saying Shaniya was offered for prostitution.
Davis was calm and quiet during a court appearance. She provided one-word answers to the judge's questions. She requested a court-appointed attorney and did not enter a plea.
Her sister, Brenda Davis, 20, said she does not believe the charges.
"I don't believe she could hurt her children," said Brenda Davis, who spoke with her sister at the jail Sunday. Davis' aunt, Yvonne Mitchell, said the mother had two jobs and would never harm the child.
Authorities also charged Mario Andrette McNeill, 29, with kidnapping after they said surveillance footage from a Sanford hotel showed him carrying Shaniya. Authorities said McNeill admitted taking the girl, though his attorney said he will plead not guilty.
Fayetteville police spokeswoman Theresa Chance declined to talk about additional charges. She also wouldn't comment on a cause of death or the condition of Shaniya's body, except to say that state investigators planned to retrieve it about 100 feet off the road.
"Detectives have been running off adrenaline to find this little girl and to bring her home alive," Chance said. "You have a lot of people in shock right now."
Davis reported Shaniya missing from a mobile home park Tuesday. Authorities first arrested Clarence Coe, but charges against him were dropped a day later when investigators tracked down McNeill after receiving a tip from a hotel employee.
Additional information led investigators to a search site near Sanford on Sunday. They continued searching Monday, scouring miles of landscape, roads, ravines and fields on four-wheelers and with helicopters.
"We were hoping that someone could carry her home," said Syd Severe, 42, who came from Raleigh to help with the search. "It's just sick."
A cluster of emergency vehicles and law enforcement gathered where Shaniya's body was found. Authorities blocked access to the road, a rural area popular with hunters that is less than a mile from a lakeside community.
On Monday night, dozens of people attended a vigil at a Baptist church about two miles from where the body was found.
"We have kids and it just hit so close to home. It's unbelievable how somebody can just do something that horrible to something so precious," said organizer Crystal Godfrey, who lives a few miles from where the body was found.
Shaniya's father, Bradley Lockhart, said he raised his daughter for several years but last month decided to let her stay with her mother. He had pleaded for her safe return.
Lockhart told The Associated Press on Saturday that he and Davis never argued about him raising Shaniya, and Cumberland County courts had no record of a custody dispute. He described his relationship with Davis as a "one-night stand" and said he did not know McNeill.
Davis struggled financially over the years, but she recently got a job and her own place, so Lockhart said he decided to give her a chance with their daughter.
"I should've never let her go over there," he said Saturday night. A friend at Lockhart's home Monday afternoon said Lockhart did not want to speak with reporters.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
What a terrible shame. This precious little beautiful girl never had a chance in life being born to a woman who would pimp her own little girl out. There really should be a very long and painful death for people who hurt or kill children.
More Death News Today - Ken Ober, MTV's 'Remote Control' Host, Dies at 52
At first blush it looked like the latest fake-death rumor on the Internet: According to sketchily sourced reports, Ken Ober, the comedian best-known for hosting MTV's late-'80s game show "Remote Control," had died.
Sadly, though, this rumor turns out to be true. Ober's reps confirm to Zap2it that he passed away over the weekend at the age of 52. No other details were available late Monday morning.
Ober had worked as writer and producer on Comedy Central's "Mind of Mencia" in recent years, and he did a stint as a consulting producer on "The New Adventures of Old Christine" in 2006. He also worked behind the camera (and occasionally in front of it) on his friend and "Remote Control" announcer Colin Quinn's show "Tough Crowd" earlier in the decade.
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Detective Shavedlomgcock:
Boy it seems like so many more people are dropping dead at an earlier age. Maybe we are all better off we didn't hit it big in Hollywood because we would probably be dead by now.
Part 3 - The YouTube Michael Scott Video
Click to watch Michael Scott - He is the person sitting the car answering the questions.
By the way... Scott's wristwatch is on his left wrist which usually means he is right handed. Media is reporting that Scott was shot to the left side of the head. Hmmmm... Very Interesting.
By the way... Scott's wristwatch is on his left wrist which usually means he is right handed. Media is reporting that Scott was shot to the left side of the head. Hmmmm... Very Interesting.
Part 2: Cops: School board chief apparently shot himself in head
Now they are reporting he was shot in the head in addition to falling into the river.
Michael Scott, president of the Chicago Board of Education, was scheduled to testify in front of the Federal Grand Jury regarding students being accepted into CPS magnet schools next month.
More importantly... WAS MICHAEL SCOTT SCHEDULED TO BE INTERVIEWED BY THE FEDS IN REGARDS TO THE CHICAGO 2016 OLYMPIC COMMITTEE & IT'S SPENDING? Scott was hand picked to be on the Chicago 2016 Committee by Mayor Daley.
Was this really a suicide???
BREAKING NEWS: President of the Chicago Public Schools Board found dead in the Chicago River
Chicago Public Schools Board President Michael Scott (Ron Huberman is CEO of the CPS) was found dead in the Chicago River - Less than 24hrs from the time his family reported him missing.
Man found dead near Merchandise Mart downtown
No Comments Chicago police are conducting a death investigation this morning after a male adult was found dead in some water near the Merchandise Mart downtown.
Police were called to an area near 350 N. Orleans Street in the River North neighborhood about 3:15 a.m. where they found the man in the water, according to Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro. Police could not be more specific about where the body was found; the leg of the Chicago River that connects to Lake Michigan branches north and south in that area.
The man has not been identified, police said, and no age was available.
No other details were available.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Scott who was a close pal to Mayor Daley and heavily invested in property that would have sky-rocketed if the Olympics came to Chicago, now worth basically nothing, appears to have committed suicide. And I use appears lightly.
You read it here first on Det. SLC!
Photo: Michael Scott in August 2009.
Man found dead near Merchandise Mart downtown
No Comments Chicago police are conducting a death investigation this morning after a male adult was found dead in some water near the Merchandise Mart downtown.
Police were called to an area near 350 N. Orleans Street in the River North neighborhood about 3:15 a.m. where they found the man in the water, according to Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro. Police could not be more specific about where the body was found; the leg of the Chicago River that connects to Lake Michigan branches north and south in that area.
The man has not been identified, police said, and no age was available.
No other details were available.
_________________________________
Detective Shavedlongcock:
Scott who was a close pal to Mayor Daley and heavily invested in property that would have sky-rocketed if the Olympics came to Chicago, now worth basically nothing, appears to have committed suicide. And I use appears lightly.
You read it here first on Det. SLC!
Photo: Michael Scott in August 2009.
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