Pro-Law Enforcement and an all around good guy - A.S.A. David J. Coleman for Judge

www.DavidJColemanForJudge.com

Treading on dangerous grounds here... for Law Enforcement Officers....

State v. Oliphant and the affect on Oregon law enforcement.

The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office (Portland Metro) recently sent out
a memo regarding a resisting case (State v. Oliphant) and the affect on
Oregon law enforcement. In essence the ruling says:

"An arrestee may defend himself against a police officer's use or
imminent use of force if the arrestee believes, as much as a reasonable
person in his position would believe, that the officer's use or imminent
use of force exceeds the force reasonably necessary to make the arrest.

Oregon effectively is now the only state that gives a suspect charged
with Resisting Arrest (ORS 162.315) an affirmative defense that they
were defending themselves against what they reasonably believed was an
actual or imminent unlawful use of force by a Police Officer.
Accompanying charges including Assault on a Public Safety Officer will
likely be dismissed if the argument stands."

The full case can be viewed at the below link:

http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/S056404.htm

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Unbelievable....Don't these law makers think that each and every offender will think the police is using "too much force" the minute they start losing the fight?

WTF are they thinking?

Thanks to MotorCop for this information

Emergency lights stolen from government vehicles in Chicago

The emergency lights from the tops of three government public-safety vehicles have been stolen from outside private homes in the last week, Chicago police said today.

The thefts have taken place in the Jefferson Park District on the Northwest Side, said district Cmdr. David McNaughton.

McNaughton said the department has issued several alerts about the thefts around the city as well as in neighboring suburbs. Detectives also have launched an investigation into the disappearance of the lights.

In the meantime, the district is monitoring the neighborhoods of government employees who are authorized to take emergency cars home, McNaughton said.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

I would use extreme caution if you attempt to curb a vehicle and the vehicle turns on emergency strobe lights. Don't let your guard down thinking it is a law enforcement vehicle....

Police: Man grew pot above preschool in the Far North Side's Sauganash neighborhood

A man set up an elaborate apparatus to grow marijuana in his apartment above a preschool in the Far North Side's Sauganash neighborhood, police said today.

James Pastman, 50, was arrested Wednesday and has been charged with felony manufacture/delivery of cannabis within 1000 feet of a school, according to a police statement.

Officers were patrolling Wednesday evening in the 5700 block of North Rogers Avenue when they saw a front window of an apartment building open and heard a dog barking, the statement said.

They went into the building to do a well-being check and detected an "overwhelming" odor of marijuana as they approached the door.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

And here I thought there was no crime in Sauganash... Silly me.....

I never would have guessed she was a top secret CIA agent.... CIA Female Agent was one of the 7 CIA agents killed

Rockford native among CIA agents killed in Afghanistan
Friends and teachers of a Rockford woman reacted with surprise and sadness today after she was identified as one of several CIA agents killed last week in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan.
Elizabeth Hanson, a 1997 graduate of Keith Country Day School in Rockford, was remembered for her intellectual curiosity and gregarious nature.
"The school is shocked and saddened to hear about the loss," said Sherrilyn Martin, Hanson's Latin teacher at Keith. "She was a very outgoing and fun girl."
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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Godspeed Agent Elizabeth "Lizzy" Hanson... You are an American hero and I thank you for your service.

Too bad this son-of-a-bitch didn't die.... Priest accused of abuse plunges from church balcony

Priest accused of abuse plunges from church balcony
A Shorewood Catholic priest who parishioners described as a "very holy man" apparently tried to kill himself by jumping from the balcony of a shuttered downtown Joliet church Wednesday as Kane county investigators began looking into allegations he molested a 13-year-old boy, authorities said.

Alejandro Flores, 37, parochial vicar of Holy Family Parish in Shorewood, was found unconscious between the pews of St. Mary's Carmelite Church, 113 N. Ottawa, Wednesday afternoon, said Joliet police deputy chief Mike Trafton.

Police went to the boarded-up church after receiving a missing persons report from the Joliet archdiocese around noon Wednesday. Officials from the Diocese of Joliet told police that Flores, who was ordained in June, had keys and spent time in the church.

Flores was reportedly in critical but stable condition Thursday.

In a statement, Bishop J. Peter Sartain said he placed Flores on administrative Monday after learning from another priest that the family of a 13-year-old boy had alleged Flores sexually abused him.

Kane County is investigating the allegations, police and the Kane county state's attorney's office said. There are no prior abuse allegations against Flores, Sartain said.

Flores was placed in a "monitored living situation" after the accusations were made, but on Wednesday morning he "left...on foot unnoticed and soon thereafter attempted suicide," Sartain said in the statement.

"Since Monday I have been deeply grieved for the young boy whose family reported the abuse and for the entire family, and my prayers for them have not ceased," he said. "This added tragedy compounds what was already a great sorrow, and I ask you to join me in fervent prayer for the boy and his family as well as Fr. Flores."

Parishioners at Holy Family Parish in Shorewood were stunned by the news. "We're very devastated," said one, who asked not to be named. "He's just a great guy, a very holy man."

Flores was quoted in an archdiocese magazine last year saying he was inspired to become a priest while living in a Bolivian orphanage after his mother died.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

If you hurt a child, especially if you molest one... you should be thrown from the highest balcony in the city.... Priest or no priest... Screw You!

The only job that last shorter than this one is being a side kick to Roe Conn - Shortshanks replaces his Chief of Staff (Again....)

Daley replaces chief of staff behind parking meter dealMayor Richard Daley today replaced his chief of staff, who engineered the parking meter lease deal that led to an uproar over soaring rates and faulty equipment.

Daley heaped praise on his outgoing top aide, Paul Volpe, but acknowledged that both he and Volpe share blame for the parking meter snafu. Daley, who has changed his chief of staff often during his long tenure, announced the latest shuffle on a day dominated by news of a snowstorm.

Volpe, who had held the post for only about one year, is moving to the Chicago Transit Authority, where he will be budget director.

Daley replaced Volpe with Raymond Orozco, the no-nonsense head of the Office of Emergency Management and Communications and a former fire commissioner. He will take over his new duties in February.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

I have a funny feeling that Mayor Daley sits in his "Captain's Chair" while playing with a pair of steel balls just like Humphrey Bogart (Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg) did in the motion picture, Caine Mutiny... talking about how everybody is turning against him.....

Houston Mom / Teacher Allegedly Seduces Canadian Teen Online, Lures Him From Home

It may not be one of her own students but he is young enough to be one of them.A Houston mother of four was arrested Tuesday and remains in jail after allegedly starting a sexual relationship with a Canadian teenager through the online game "World of Warcraft," and then flying to his town and luring him away from home, MyFoxHouston.com reported.

Lauri Price, 42, thought she could get around U.S. statutory rape laws by having sex with the 16-year-old in Canada, where that is the legal age of consent, Harris County investigators told MyFoxHouston.

Authorities say the substitute teacher started having an online sexual relationship with the boy, then 15 years old, in September 2008 after meeting him through the Internet video game, said Donna Hawkins, a spokeswoman for the Harris County District Attorney's Office.

"When she traveled to Canada, she actually took the boy from his home and they had a large statewide manhunt in Canada,” Harris County Prosecutor Eric Devlin told MyFox. “The child was missing for about 36 hours."

Police say Price and the teen were found in a bed and breakfast. The 16-year-old was taken home.

Price came back to Harris County where she was booked into jail.

"If she does make bond she can't have any contact with her children or any child under the age of 17," Devlin told MyFoxHouston.com.

Because the age of consent in Canada is 16, Price is not being charged with physical sexual assault.

However, because she allegedly pursued the relationship in Texas, she has been charged by prosecutors in Houston with two counts of online solicitation of a minor and one count of enticing a child with the intent to commit a felony.

After going to the teen's home in Barrie, Ontario, in February and failing to lure the boy away, Price continued her online relationship with the boy, said Lt. Matthew Gray, with the Houston Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce.

"She talked to him about sex and a lot of different stuff. It was a very long, long grooming process. She thought that in February she had him at that time. She continued to work on him until she finally felt she broke through," he said.

On Dec. 29, Price flew back to Canada and managed to lure the teen from his home, taking him to a hotel in Rosseau, about 70 miles away, and having sex with him, Gray said.

"From our investigation, we have thousands of e-mails and instant messages to go through. She was very persistent to say the least," Gray said.

Price was arrested early Tuesday morning at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport after returning from Canada. She made her initial court appearance on Wednesday.

Her attorney, Skip Cornelius, did not immediately return a telephone call Wednesday.

Before leaving his home, the teen left a note for his mother saying he was running away with Price. Authorities in Barrie were looking for the two when an off-duty police officer in Rosseau spotted them at the hotel, Gray said.

Price has worked as a permanent substitute teacher with the Cypress-Fairbanks school district in suburban Houston, and has four children, Gray said. Prosecutors said after her arrest, Price was fired from her job.

Price is being held in the Harris County Jail under bonds totaling $20,000.

If convicted, she faces anywhere from two to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000 for each charge, Hawkins said.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Where are all these middle aged female whack job teachers coming from? I can't recall one female teacher ever being in the news when I was in school for any type of sexual offense. And lately they seem to be literally "Cumming" out of the woodwork!

Use of 'Negro' on 2010 Census Form Upsets Modern-Day Sensibilities

Use of 'Negro' on 2010 Census Form Upsets Modern-Day Sensibilities
The term is reportedly included under Question No. 9 of the 2010 census questionnaire, which was approved by Congress over a year ago.

The U.S. Census has shocked the senses for many who want to know why the descriptor, "Negro," is being used in the 2010 questionnaire, the New York Daily News reported.

The term is included under Question No. 9 of the 2010 census questionnaire, which was approved by Congress over a year ago.

The question, which asks about race, provides the following answer choice: "Black, African Am., or Negro."

The word "Negro," referring to individuals of black African descent, represents to many a low moment in U.S. history. Considered a racial slur by leaders of the civil rights movement, the term has since been abandoned for its association with slavery and segregation.

But the Census Bureau has defended its decision to include the word, saying older generations of African Americans often identify themselves as "Negroes," according to the newspaper.

"Many older African Americans identified themselves that way, and many still do," Census Bureau spokesman Jack Martin told the newspaper. "Those who identify themselves as Negroes need to be included."

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

If you think some might be mad about the use of this word "Negro"... wait till they find out the other three choices they went through before settling on "Negro".

President Obama's counter-terror chief stays on ski slopes after being informed of the attempted Christmas day jetliner bombing

President Obama's counter-terror chief, Michael Leiter, could be taking the fall after report surfaces that he stayed on the ski slopes after the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound jetliner in midair.

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Detective Shavedlongcock

It takes President Obama 3 days to respond to this attempt bombing and security lapse... now we find out about this asswipe, President Obama's counter-terror chief, Michael Leiter, who couldn't be bother while he was skiing.

(Bumped Up) Once again going backwards to get more minorities on the job - Police may scrap entrance exam

'OPEN UP THE PROCESS' | FOP President Mark Donahue: It's 'too stupid to be true'
The Chicago Police Department is seriously considering scrapping the police entrance exam to bolster minority hiring, save millions on test preparation and avert costly legal battles that have dogged the exam process for decades, City Hall sources said Tuesday.

If the process is opened to everyone who applies and meets the minimum education and residency requirements, Chicago would be virtually alone among major cities. Most cities have police entrance exams -- and for good reason, experts say.

"A background check and a psych [exam] alone will not eliminate some people who should not be there," said Brad Woods, who ran the Personnel Division under former Chicago Police Superintendents Phil Cline and Terry Hillard.

Calling an application-only process a "step backward" and the "wrong way to go," Woods said, "When you lower your quality, you will get poor police service and more complaints. ... Whenever you make it easier to be the police, you're doing the citizens and the Police Department a disservice."

Charlie Roberts, who ran the training division from 1995 to 1999, noted that there are "eleven tracks" recruits must go through in the police academy, including the law and the municipal code.

"If you don't give someone at least a reading comprehension test, can you just put them in and risk the possibility of having so many of them fail? That could get quite expensive," Roberts said.

"We were getting people with 60 hours of college credit who were reading at a third-grade level. What do you think you'll get if you have no screening process?"

Human Resources Department spokesperson Connie Buscemi acknowledged Tuesday that the Daley administration has been exploring other "options" since last fall, when a "request-for-proposals" for companies interested in preparing an on-line police entrance exam was cancelled.

The last police entrance exam was held on Nov. 5, 2006.

"We wanted to try to develop something on-line to allow the city to accommodate members of the U.S. military who are on active duty. But, we didn't get any responses that met our needs. No one said they could administer an on-line exam" and guarantee its integrity, Buscemi said.

"We're [now] reviewing our options on how to administer the police application process."

Other sources confirmed that the police entrance exam could be scrapped altogether "to open up the process to as many people as possible." A final decision could be made later this week.

Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue said the idea "sounds too stupid to be true."

"You need a testing process. ... You need to be very concerned about the very limited information you would get from just a screening and application process," Donahue said.

Hiring and promotions in the Police and Fire Departments have generated controversy in Chicago for as long as anyone can remember.

The criticism reached a crescendo in 1994 after a sergeants exam produced just five minority promotions out of 114.

The test was the first to be administered by the city after "race-norming" -- the practice of adjusting scores on the basis of race -- was ruled unconstitutional.

In November 2005, City Hall announced plans to offer the police entrance exam a record four times the following year -- and for the first time on the Internet -- after an unprecedented outreach campaign that bolstered the number of minority applicants to 34 percent black, 24 percent Hispanic and 26 percent women.

More than two years later, black ministers told newly-appointed Police Supt. Jody Weis that, if he was serious about re-establishing trust between police and the black community, he should start by hiring and promoting more African Americans.

The Police Department is currently operating at least 2,000 officers-a-day short of authorized strength, counting vacancies, medical leave and limited duty.

Mayor Daley's 2010 budget uses federal stimulus funds to add just 86 officers, 30 of them for the CTA.

That's nowhere near enough hiring to solve a manpower shortage that, Weis fears, will get dramatically worse when as many as 1,000 more officers retire later this year.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

I am telling you this world is going backwards for the worse. I just posted on how the Washington State Appeals Courts just ruled that incarcerated felons can votes so blacks can vote and now the City of Chicago wants to scrap the testing program to get more blacks on the job.

It truly unreal....

WLS-AM gambles on re-signing Roe Conn and reaches out to Cisco Cotto

The Back Stabbing Jew of Afternoon Radio, Roe Conn WLS-AM 890, has a new side kick. This time it is Cisco Cotto.

Roe Conn recently took a 75% pay cut, dropped down to #27 in the radio ratings even though he is on the 50,000 watt powerhouse WLS... and slit the throat of every side kick he had.... so I feel this is just a last ditch effort to raise his ratings by reaching out to the minorities of Chicago.

One killed in police chase, suspect sought

This subject is wanted for this fatal accident - He was fleeing the police in a stolen vehicle when the accident occurred.FAYETTEVILLE (WTVD) -- Once person is dead after an early morning police chase ended with a crash.
Fayetteville police said Wednesday morning's incident began with a complaint call about a man looking into vehicles around 5 a.m. Shortly after that call, police received a call from a woman who said her husband was following the suspect.

Officers responded to the area and witnessed the suspect driving a silver Ford F-150.

A chase began after the suspect refused to stop for officers. Investigators say the suspect was driving close to 90 mph.

Police said they followed the vehicle towards Pamalee Drive and Cain Road. Additional officers in patrol cars, with blue lights turned on, blocked the intersection to help control traffic and try to prevent other vehicles from being struck.

While at the intersection, police said a Chrysler PT Cruiser did not yield to the officers and proceeded through the intersection on a green light. That's when the pickup truck hit the car.

The driver of the car, John Velandra, was pronounced dead at the hospital, and the suspect fled the scene on foot.

The suspect was later identified as 24-year-old Percyful Junior McIntyre. Authorities are still searching for searching for McIntyre.

Police say he will be charged with second degree murder, felony speeding to elude, larceny of a motor vehicle, possession of a stolen motor vehicle, and felony hit-and-run.

Velandra's wife says the accident happened no more than a mile from their house.

Velandra was a personal trainer. His wife says he was going to open the gym at Highland Presbyterian Church when he was involved in the wreck.

"He's big, beautiful and adoring and he loved his people, his clients, his trainers," Velandra's wife Nivia Velandra said. "The staff like it was his family."

Nivia Velandra says her husband didn't know any strangers. He loved her and his church family.

"He's just this big guy who just had a heart for people, a heart for health and fitness and nutrition and seeing people succeed," Nivia Velandra said.

Velandra was supposed to teach a fitness class at the church Wednesday night, but people are gathering at the church to celebrate his life.

According to the Designs in Fitness Web site, Velandra served for more than a decade in the military.

Shortly after the traffic accident, the owner of the Ford called to report that his vehicle had been stolen.

The Fayetteville Police Department's Traffic and Homicide units are investigating the case, and a criminal investigation is ongoing.

The department also is conducting an administrative investigation per department policy. The officers involved in the chase will be placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of the administrative investigation.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

It is alaways sad when an innocent person is either injured or killed in a police chase.

4 Year Old Boy shot in leg on NW Side

Boy shot in leg on NW Side
A boy about 4 years old was shot in the leg on the Northwest Side this evening, authorities said.
The boy, believed to be 4 years old, was in good condition after being shot in the leg and taken to Children's Memorial Hospital, said Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.
The shooting took place in the 5500 block of West Belmont Avenue about 7:20 p.m., Fire Department spokesman Will Knight said.
Police had been notified of someone shot in that area just before 7:20 p.m., but had no further details, said Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

A 4 year old boy shot... Will the city now say that due to this 4 year old's lifestyle, he was targeted in this shooting?

I just find it hard to believe that a 4 year old being shot is just another news story in this city.

Why the police give up this information is beyond me - Robbery getaway is foiled by GPS

Minutes after an armed bank heist in Calumet City last week, the three suspects met up at the home of one of their parents in neighboring Dolton. They barely were out of their vehicles when they heard sirens -- getting louder and louder.

How had the cops tracked them down so quickly? The masks, getaway vehicles and meet-up location had all been mapped out earlier, but a relatively new feature in bank security -- credit-card-size GPS devices hidden in stolen cash -- led police almost instantly to the suspects, according to an FBI affidavit.

FBI and banking officials said they believed it was the first time the technology -- similar to what is increasingly used in cell phones and other devices -- had been deployed to solve a bank robbery in the Chicago region.

The FBI did use a GPS device last year to help free a man being held for $40,000 ransom, placing it in a bag of money tracked to a South Side home.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Can somebody please explain to me why these ASSWIPES are so willing to release this information to the public? Is it the company who makes it trying to get free press??? Because it makes no sense at all to me that we would let the criminals know what tools we are using to catch them. Whoever released this information is a stupid fucking asshole, period!

Thank the Lord the Schaumburg police are fine... Shots fired at the police during home invasion

Shots fired at Schaumburg police; 3 arrested

Schaumburg police arrested three suspected robbers after officers interrupted a home invasion and two shots were fired at one of the responding officers, a spokesman said.

One of the two residents of the home in the 1000 block of Stonehedge Drive received minor injuries in the robbery and was treated by Schaumburg paramedics, but officers were uninjured, police said.

Police were called to the home at 6:50 p.m. and when two officers came up to the house, they were refused entrance, according to a Schaumburg Police press release.

The officers "heard a commotion" inside the home, according to release. One of the officers walked around to the back of house and came upon a suspect, who turned and fired two shots from a gun at the officer, then fled on foot. Police did not return fire, the spokesman said.

The officer, who was uninjured, chased the suspect on foot.

Within a few blocks of the home, police were able to capture three suspects, police said. They were being questioned this evening.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

As always... I thank the Lord that the police are fine....

Obama said that I can get my hamburger any way I want it! Shenika causes thousands of dollars of damage at McDonalds over a hamburger

In this Dec. 27, 2009 still made from video provided by the Kansas City, Mo. Police shows a woman getting ready to throw a sign as she goes on a rampage at a McDonald's in Kansas City because she didn't like her hamburger. Police say the woman caused thousands of dollars in damage when she became upset that the restaurant wouldn't refund her money.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

This fat wilderbeast doesn't need a McDonald's hamburger but that ain't the way she saw it!

She goes on to cause a few thousand dollars in damage at this McDonald's because she couldn't have her burger, her way. Silly bitch, she should have went to Burger King and got it her way!

Does it EVER END? Suit: Public transit funding favors white riders - YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING?

Racial discrimination favoring white transit riders over minorities in the Chicago area has led to public funding disparities that benefit Metra and shortchange the CTA, according to a lawsuit filed today.

The civil rights lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago is a class-action complaint against the state of Illinois, the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Regional Transportation Authority and Metra.

The plaintiffs are Manuel Munguia, who is Hispanic, and Dorothy McGhee, who is African-American, on behalf of all black and Hispanic CTA riders.

The allocation of public funding through the RTA -- a system in place since 1983 and last amended in 2008 -- is unfair because it channels a disproportionate share of capital-improvement and operations funding to Metra, the suit said.

The funding allocation over the last 26 years has "grossly and disparately favored white mass transit riders ... by overfunding Metra," the suit said.

As a result, the CTA faces chronic budget deficits and the agency is forced to raise fares and cut service to its customers more often than should be necessary, the suit said.

Responding to the suit, a spokeswoman for Metra said the agency "categorically denies any type of racial discrimination," and questions the validity of the ridership statistics cited in the lawsuit.

"From our preliminary review, there's a lot of information stated in the lawsuit that's not true," said Judy Pardonnet, the spokeswoman.

Neither Metra nor any other agency keeps data on the racial makeup of mass transit passengers, she said. She emphasized, however, that one-third of Metra's stations are within the city of Chicago.

When the General Assembly approved an additional 0.25 percent sales tax for mass transit in 2008, lawmakers revised the funding formula that is used to determine how much tax revenue goes to the CTA, Metra and Pace. Metra was a participant in the negotiations, as was the CTA, RTA, Pace and members of the legislature, Pardonnet said.

Under the new formula, the CTA gets 48 percent of the additional sales tax revenue collected in the six-county area, Metra gets 39 percent and Pace gets 13 percent. The old formula still provides the CTA with 60 percent of the remaining one-percent sales tax already in place, 30 percent to Metra, and 10 percent goes to Pace.

The 2008 legislation also gives the CTA all of the revenue from a real estate transfer tax imposed in Chicago.


Pardonnet also contends the CTA receives about 95 percent of the discretionary funds allocated by the RTA, and that Metra receives none.

The suit alleges that minorities have less access to mass transit overall and are more likely to ride CTA buses instead of trains, the suit said. The reason is that the alleged funding imbalance has delayed rail transit improvements, including the planned CTA Red Line extension, in minority communities, the suit said.

The alleged funding inequities favoring white transit commuters over minorities also reduce employment opportunities and lower property values in predominantly African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods, the suit said.

"As a result of the funding scheme, CTA has continually tottered on financial ruin ... while Metra has thrived, and today provides its predominantly white riders mass transit luxury at a below market price," the suit said.

The suit said about 70 percent of Metra riders are white, and about 60 percent of CTA riders are African-American or Hispanic.

The CTA receives the majority of public transit funding, with lesser amounts going to Metra and Pace.

CTA officials have lobbied state lawmakers for years to change the funding breakdown so that it more accurately reflects the amount of service the CTA provides in the region.

But CTA officials do not blame the current imbalance on racial discrimination in funding practices.

Rather, the transit funding structure has not been sufficiently revised to take account of population and demographic changes in the six-county area served by the RTA system, according to the CTA. Increased tax revenues that are earmarked for transit and collected in suburban Chicago go mostly to Metra.

The lawsuit said the CTA receives only about 59 percent of RTA operating subsidies even though 82 percent of Chicago-area transit riders use the CTA.

Metra serves 12 percent of the region's riders, but it receives 27 percent of the operating funding, the suit said.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Unfuckingbelievable. I have said this a thousand times. The blacks will use the "black race" to extort any business or government agency for MORE MONEY AND FREEBIES. But God forbid you bring up race when it has to do with crime rates, unmarried women having babies, welfare, Section 8 housing or any other grouping that places the black community in a "bad light".

Funding for the RTA/CTA/METRA has nothing to do with race, it is based on the number or riders in a certain area. So kindly shove this lawsuit up your black ass please!

Is this related to city business? Feds search West Loop construction firm office

Feds search West Loop construction firm office
FBI agents executed a search warrant this week at the West Loop headquarters of a Chicago construction company, a spokesman for the bureau confirmed today.
The search at Krahl Construction was part of an ongoing federal investigation, said FBI spokesman Ross Rice, who declined to comment further.
Agents conducted a search Tuesday of the firm's offices at 322 S. Green St., Rice said. No arrests were made, according to the FBI.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Anybody have any information on this one? Is it city hall connected or something not related to city business at all? Please do tell....

12" might be heading our way! And I am not talking about Det. Shavedlongcock, I am talking SNOW!

A winter storm warning is in effect across the Chicago area through Friday morning.

By the end of the warning, from 6 to 12 inches of a fairly fluffy snow will have come down, according to the >National Weather Service. The heaviest snows are expected near the lakefront, from Chicago north.

The far northwest and western suburbs have already seen significant snowfalls this season, but the downtown and lakefront areas have been largely spared -- until now. There have been 41 snowstorms totaling 10 inches or more in Chicago since weather service records were first kept in 1886; the most recent was 2005, which saw a total of 11.2 inches of snow.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

The kicker? No cash overtime for the Streets and Sans workers clearing the streets, strictly comp time. Mayor Daley is screwing each and every person who will be plowing our streets for 24 hours straight or longer. As that fat ass prick sits in his lazy boy stealing millions of dollars... the poor schmucks clearing the streets don't make a Penny extra.

From the OUCH FILE - Flying ice from truck severely injures motorist

Photo: Peter Morano of Aurora shows injuries he says he suffered after struck by flying ice from a semi as it went under a viaduct on Butterfield Road near Eola Rd on Monday. The ice smashed through the windshield and struck him in the face.

When Peter Morano recalls the terrifying car accident, he refers to it as the "white bomb."

On Monday morning, Morano was driving his car east on Butterfield Road in Aurora when his windshield was struck by an explosion of snow and ice. As a westbound semitrailer drove under an overpass, a large block of ice flew off the truck top and torpedoed into Morano's windshield.

"The sheet of ice hit directly on the windshield, broke the windshield and sprayed the glass into my face," said Morano, 41, now recovering in his Aurora home.

"There was blood everywhere, pouring from my head, nose and my eye. I was scared that I was losing so much blood that I was going to die."

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Damn that had to hurt. Actually he is lucky to be alive. Gives all of us one more thing to look out for while we are driving!

Female cop shot to death by a dope dealer who just sold the killed cop's brother narcotics

 

DELTA, Utah - Dozens of people from Millard County gathered at a candlelight vigil on Tuesday night to remember a deputy shot and killed at a traffic stop. While funeral arrangements are being made, there will be a memorial made in honor of 37-year-old Josie Greathouse Fox, who leaves behind a husband and two children. Deputy Fox was a five year veteran of the Millard County Sheriff's Office. She is also 129th police officer in Utah to pay the ultimate sacrifice and the second woman to die in the line of duty.

Most people in the tight-knit community of Delta knew Fox and she was known for her ability to reach out to youth in the county and was considered as a friend to everyone.

"Somebody took a young woman, who happened to be a deputy, who stood in the line of fire, so people could sleep at night, and they robbed her family of the joy of having her as a mother," said Steve Alexander, a friend of Fox. "I feel like the whole community was robbed. They could've taken something else but not her you know she belonged here."

Two Facebook pages are dedicated to remembering Deputy Fox with more than 4,000 supporters combined and already hundreds of comments.

Funeral arrangements are still pending. Deputy Fox will be honored at the Utah Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony, which will be held the first week in May at the new memorial on the west side of the Utah State Capitol grounds.

The man charged with the murder of Fox was arrested Wednesday when police discovered him asleep inside his shed. The suspect, Roberto Miramontes Roman, 37, was arrested at around 8 a.m. in Beaver County.

Police also arrested another man related to the case known as Ruben Chavez.

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From Deseret News:

Millard deputy killed by man who sold drugs to her brother, police say
DELTA — A Millard County sheriff's deputy was shot and killed early Tuesday by a man who had sold drugs to the deputy's brother just minutes before, investigators say.

Deputy Josie Greathouse Fox was shot, apparently without warning, during a traffic stop about 1 a.m. She was the second female officer in Utah history to be killed in the line of duty.

The shooting sparked a massive manhunt over several counties for at least two people wanted in connection with the slaying.

Roberto Miramontes Roman, 37, was charged just 10 hours after the shooting with aggravated murder, a capital felony, and tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.

Before the shooting, Fox and Sgt. Rhett Kimball spotted two suspicious vehicles about one mile east of Delta, where there had been a recent string of home burglaries and trailer thefts, said Millard County Sheriff Robert A. Dekker.

One of the vehicles belonged to Ryan Greathouse, Fox's brother, according to charges filed in 4th District Court.

As both cars drove away in different directions, Kimball told Fox to stop the other vehicle as it headed toward Delta on U.S. 50 while he followed Greathouse's vehicle, Dekker said. Fox stopped the Cadillac DeVille about 1 a.m. and called in the license plate number to dispatchers. The vehicle was registered to Ruben Chavez Reyes, the charges state.

Kimball then drove to Fox's location.

"He found deputy Fox lying in the road. The suspect vehicle was gone," Dekker said.

Fox, 37, still had her flashlight in her hand. Her gun was still in its holster. A single bullet had entered above her protective vest, just above her badge, he said.

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

"She was a great deputy," said the sheriff, who described Fox as a "Delta gal" and a "real peach."

"She's done us a good job. She had the ability to talk to the youth in our community."

Fox leaves behind a husband and two children. She had been with the Millard County Sheriff's Office for more than five years. Her husband, an oil field worker, was out of town in Vernal when he was informed about the shooting.

"We're a small agency. We've lost a loved one and a close friend," Dekker said, adding that Fox was "nonjudgmental and liked by everybody."

Dekker said he believes his deputy was killed instantly.

"I think the shooting happened as soon as the stop was made, as soon as she made the approach," he said.

Detectives went to Ryan Greathouse's house in Leamington and he told them he had just purchased drugs from a man he later identified as Roman who was driving a gray Cadillac, the charges state.

"He's pretty upset," Fox's mother, Cindy Greathouse, told the Associated Press. "We have a lot of good friends and neighbors who have been here today and lots of support."

Following the shooting, detectives believe Roman drove the Cadillac DeVille to Nephi where he met another person with an orange Corvette, presumably Reyes. There, investigators believe Roman removed the rear license plate from the Cadillac and placed it on the Corvette. The Cadillac was later located in Nephi and was processed by Utah County sheriff's deputies.

Using GPS tracking on Roman's cell phone, investigators developed information that Roman was in the Poplar Grove neighborhood of Salt Lake City Tuesday morning. The orange Corvette was located near Franklin Elementary, 1115 W. 300 South.

Between 30 and 50 officers, including SWAT teams from three departments, closed off an area on 1000 West from 200 South to 400 South and on 300 South between 1000 West and 1150 West. Residents were told to stay inside their homes. Nearby Franklin Elementary was closed for the day as well as Guadalupe charter school.

Detectives determined Roman had several relatives who lived in the area and SWAT teams started searching those houses.

Andres Pedra said police mistakenly believed that Roman's grandmother lived in his house near 400 South and 1100 West.

"We said no, we had nothing to do with that," Pedra told the Deseret News.

SWAT teams searched the house anyway and found nothing. Pedra said he didn't mind the slight inconvenience. "It was fine," he said, noting that he understood the officers are trying to keep the community safe.

About 10 a.m., law enforcers focused on a shed and trailer near 500 South and 1050 West where the Corvette was found. About an hour later, officers fired tear gas into the shed and a trailer. No one was found inside.

Officers continued to search the house on the property but found nothing. The neighborhood containment was lifted about 1 p.m. Police said they found no evidence, other than the car, that Roman had been there Tuesday.

Court documents, however, indicate that police saw a man matching Roman's description running from a house in the area to an outbuilding on the property.

Firefighters and the health department were called back to that house a few hours later when the family suffered respiratory problems and itchy eyes because of the lingering tear gas. The house was "closed to occupancy" by the health department and the family was put up in a hotel room for the evening.

Sylvia Miramontes was crying outside her house after firefighters arrived as her three daughters tried to console her. She said police came to her door Tuesday morning and said they were looking for her husband's cousin, Roman.

"They thought he was inside the house," Miramontes said, "They came in and broke my house. We didn't even know the car was parked in front of our house. I don't know where he's at."

She said the last time she saw Roman at the house was New Year's Eve. Miramontes said if she had known Roman was on his way there, she would have taken her kids out of the house and called police.

Guillermo Miramontes, Sylvia's son, said the police initially took his family from the house to their nearby command post and told them about Roman.

"I was just like, I can't believe he just did something like this, and this poor officer, and I would never think he would do something like that," he said. "I was real shocked about it."

Melinda Mahana lives across the street from the house that was searched and watched, along with her children, as SWAT teams acted.

"I've seen the guy. I know who he is. He's been over there before," she said.

Mahana said she did not see Roman at the house on Tuesday. She said the Corvette was not parked in front of the house Monday night, but she noticed it about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Roman is described as Hispanic, 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 130 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Investigators would not confirm some reports that Roman may be carrying an AK-47 assault rifle, but they say he should be considered armed and dangerous and anyone who sees him should call 911 immediately.

Police issued a photo of Reyes, 36, Tuesday to the media. Dekker said Reyes — also known as Vicente Fernandez Garcia — owns both the Cadillac and Corvette and is a friend of Roman.

Reyes is believed to have "information on possibly where our primary suspect is," said Department of Public Safety spokesman Jeff Nigbur. "We are investigating whether he may have either helped or assisted (Roman)."

Fox is the 129th Utah officer killed in the line of duty and only the second woman. The first female officer was Esther Todecheene, with the Navajo Department of Safety, who was killed June 8, 1998, when her car rolled when she lost control on a corner while responding to a call from another officer.

Clarke Christensen, director of the Utah Law Enforcement Memorial Association, presented a check for $2,000 to Fox's family Tuesday.

"We do this for every family of a fallen officer. It's amazing how many costs build up immediately," he said.

Gov. Gary Herbert and his wife offered their deepest condolences and ordered all flags to fly at half staff until sunset today.

"Millard County and the entire state of Utah suffered a devastating loss with this tragic, early morning shooting. By all accounts, deputy Fox was an officer who loved her job and was proud to serve her community. She was an asset to her community and a true hero to the state of Utah," Herbert said.

Roman's criminal history in Utah has been largely drug-related. He pleaded guilty to a charge of distribution of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor, in 1992, and to charges of possession with the intent to distribute and use, and/or possession of drug paraphernalia and carrying a concealed dangerous weapon in 1997.

Roman was arrested four times in the past by the Millard County Sheriff's Office and had been deported at least once, but had come back to Utah, Dekker said.

Dekker said the last deputy killed in Millard County was Floyd Rose in 1922. Rose was a car salesman who was a volunteer deputy. He was shot while attempting to apprehend an inmate who had escaped from the jail. Rose, also, was killed in Delta.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

My deepest condolences to the family, fellow officers and friends of this officer. Godspeed Josie Greathouse Fox.

Sucks to be him - Winner of $30 Million Dollar Lotto is missing and presumed dead

LAKELAND, Fla. — In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare — a truck driver's assistant who lived with his mother — won $30 million in the Florida lottery. His good fortune may have cost him his life.

Shakespeare vanished months ago. His mother hopes he is somewhere in the Caribbean, lying on a beach and enjoying the good life away from all the hangers-on who were constantly hitting him up for money.

The sheriff has a more ominous theory: Shakespeare was killed.

"There are a lot of odd and bizarre circumstances in this case," Sheriff Grady Judd said. "We fear and are preparing for the worst. We're working this case as if it were a homicide."

Shakespeare, 43, won the big jackpot after buying a lottery ticket at a convenience store in a town called Frostproof, claiming later that he gave the last $3 in his pocket to a homeless man just before the winning numbers were announced.

Shakespeare — who had a criminal record that included arrests and prison time for burglary, battery and not paying child support — took a lump-sum payment of $16.9 million instead of annual installments.

He bought a Nissan Altima, a Rolex from a pawn shop, a $1 million home in a gated community. He talked about starting a foundation for the poor and insisted the money wouldn't change him.

"I'm not a material person," he said in 2007. "I don't let material things run me. I'm on a tight budget."

The money quickly caused him problems.

A former co-worker sued him in 2007, accusing Shakespeare of stealing the winning ticket from him. Six months later, a jury ruled the ticket was Shakespeare's.

Then there were the people constantly asking him for a piece of his fortune.

"They didn't wait. They just came right after they found out he won this money," his mother, Elizabeth Walker, said recently.

She said her son was generous, paying for funerals, lending money to friends starting businesses and even giving a million dollars to a guy known only as "Big Man."

Not long after he bought the million-dollar home in early 2007, he was approached by a woman named Dee Dee Moore, said family and officials.

Moore — who could not be reached by The Associated Press — said she was interested in writing a book about Shakespeare's life. She became something of a financial adviser to Shakespeare, who never graduated high school.

Property records show that Moore's company, American Medical Professionals, bought Shakespeare's home for $655,000 last January. His mother said the last time she saw him was shortly afterward, around her birthday in February.

The sheriff said the last time anyone saw Shakespeare was in April — but it wasn't until Nov. 9 that he was reported missing, by a police informant.

And the story gets more bizarre.

According to The Ledger of Lakeland, the 37-year-old Moore contacted reporters at the newspaper in April, saying Shakespeare was "laying low" because people tried to suck money out of him.

That made sense to Shakespeare's mother — sort of. "I remember once, talking with me over the phone, he said he might go to Jamaica," she said.

On Dec. 5, a sobbing Moore told The Ledger that she helped Shakespeare disappear, but now wants him to return because detectives were searching her home and car and looking for blood on her belongings.

One reason he wanted to leave, she said, was a child support case for a child he allegedly fathered after winning the lottery. "Abraham sold me his mess to get a better life," she told the paper.

She even gave the paper a video that she said she took of Abraham. In the video, he says he is tired of people asking him for money. "They don't take no for an answer," he says.

"So where you wanna go to?" Moore asks in the video.

"It don't matter to me. I'm not a picky person," Shakespeare replies.

Moore told the paper that she took the video to "protect herself."

Moore said she filed paperwork to take over five mortgages totaling about $370,000 that had been owed to Shakespeare. She said she sold the loans at a loss to another person. She added that many of the people who borrowed from Shakespeare have refused to pay, and she feels threatened by some of them.

Moore's past includes a year of probation after she was charged with falsely reporting that she was carjacked and raped in 2001. Officials said she concocted the scheme so her insurance company would reimburse her for the SUV, which she claimed had been stolen.

The woman did not answer several calls placed to a number listed for her in public records. During a recent visit to the home she bought from Shakespeare, a security box rang to a phone number that had been disconnected.

Sheriff's officials won't comment on Moore's involvement in Shakespeare's life.

The sheriff said that Shakespeare spent the bulk of his lottery winnings. The fact that he didn't call his mother on Christmas reinforces the theory that Shakespeare is not just hiding, Judd said.

"I hope so much that he is alive somewhere," said his mother. "And I want people to know, if they ever win the lottery, I hope they know how to handle the people that come after them. They can be dangerous."

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

I wonder if Det. Shavedlongcock is in his will? I remember once giving him a ride to a gas station to get gas for his car that ran out of gas! Yes, that's it!

Michigan woman found burned to death in Florida trash can

Police ID Burned Body Found in Miami Trash Can
NORTH MIAMI, Fla. — Police have identified a burned body found in a North Miami trash can as that of a 26-year-old Michigan woman.

Authorities say they used dental records to identify Paula Sladewski, whose burning body was found Sunday night.

North Miami police spokesman Lt. Neal Cuevas told The Miami Herald that Sladewski and her boyfriend were staying in a Miami Beach hotel during their visit to South Florida. Sladewski's boyfriend reported her missing Monday, telling authorities he became separated from her at a Miami club over the weekend.

A cause of death hasn't been released.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Hmmmmm..... I wonder who may have killed this woman? Maybe the B-O-Y-F-R-I-E-N-D?

Quinn suspends 2nd early prison release program

Gov. Pat Quinn today suspended a second early prison release program, this one for nearly 1,000 non-violent offenders, amid growing questions about the administration's attempt to ease the state's cash crunch by cutting costs in the Department of Corrections.

About 170 prisoners had been released so far under the program Quinn announced in September, according to the prison agency.

Asked why the program was being suspended, spokespeople for the prison department and Quinn's office would only say it was pending a review of all early release programs that will be conducted when the governor appoints someone to the new position of chief public safety officer in the corrections agency.

Quinn announced the position last week when he suspended a different, more controversial early release program that put hundreds of inmates back on the street after accelerating their good-time credit. That program included prisoners convicted of violent crimes.

Quinn blamed his new prison chief, Michael Randle, for bad judgment in beginning that program. The governor said he was not aware of the cost-cutting decision. Quinn's Democratic governor rival, Dan Hynes, and Republican candidates have criticized the program, attacking Quinn for saying he didn't know about it.

In September, it was Quinn who announced the program for non-violent offenders within the last year of their sentence, saying it was part of an effort to chip away at a massive state budget deficit.

Late Tuesday, the corrections department issued a brief statement saying the non-violent release program had also been suspended.

"It's being suspended pending the review of the new chief public safety officer at the Illinois Department of Corrections, who will be named soon," said Quinn spokesman Bob Reed.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Governor Pat Quinn is softer than puppy shit from a puppy who ate a bag of White Castle hamburgers. These are our elected officials. Un-fucking-believable!

Rumors Surface - Obama's bitch boy Rahm Emanuel to run for Mayor of Chicago

Obama's little butt banging cocaine snorting bitch boy, Rahm Emanuel wants to run for mayor.Rahm Emanuel, the irrepressible White House chief of staff and former congressman from Chicago responsible for that "thumpin''' that Republicans took in the House elections of 2006, the one who might have liked to be speaker of the House some day, could have other aspirations back home.

So says Sally Quinn, the veteran columnist of the Washington Post. Other, more knowledgeable handicappers of the Chicago political scene doubt this scenario seriously.
The Obama administration, for its part, maintains that Emanuel is "100 percent focused on the job at hand - serving President Obama as his chief of staff,'' in the words of a White House aide today.

Quinn mentioned the Chicago mayoral option today, deep within a look at recent machinations within the Obama White House, where a new general counsel, Bob Bauer, has taken office, following Emanuel's clash with the past counsel, Greg Craig, and where three uninvited guests showed up at a State Dinner.

Emanuel posed for a picture with the first of the known gate-crashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi. In the aftermath of that event, Quinn writes, it will be hard to defend the continuing service of White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, another Chicagoan.

"Emanuel, the most political animal in this town, also should understand that keeping Rogers on as social secretary reflects upon the president's judgment. It's possible that he has other considerations,'' Quinn writes today. "Emanuel is said to have told people that the chief-of-staff role is an 18-month job and that he is considering a run for mayor of Chicago. And Rogers is a major social and political player in the Windy City.''

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's term is up in early 2011. Daley has not said whether he will seek re-election, our colleague Rick Pearson, the Tribune's chief political writer, notes. Daley's popularity has suffered with the privatization of parking meters, a tough economy and the loss of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. His wife also is in ill health. The question of seeking re-election is open to question, but he may well do so in the absence of a legitimate challenger.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Another little midget fuck who is nothing more than a cut throat jag off for Obama wants the Mayor seat...

This little cokehead is truly one of the biggest jagoffs in politics. And that isn't just me saying it, many in the Obama inner circle will tell you the same thing. I could only hope this asswipe dies a long painful death from a powder nose overdose.

Here is a petition to sign.... Let's amend the law so disable police officers (Those who do qualify) to carry their firearms

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/allow-disabled-illinois-police-officers-to-carry-their-firearms/sign.html

Police: Baby with 20 broken bones "suffered an extra 2-3 weeks of pain"

Nothing like a beautiful salt & pepper crack head couple. I have the giant vat of hot grease to drop this couple into.
After breaking 20 bones in her 2-month-old girl's body, a young Marietta mother waited two to three weeks before taking the baby to a doctor, according to an arrest warrant obtained by the AJC.

Her boyfriend, the baby's father, also refused to take the infant to the hospital, the warrant alleges.

"This baby suffered through an extra 2-3 weeks of pain having 20 broken bones, including a skull fracture and a severely broken and displaced femur," the warrant states.

Antoinette White, 20, and her boyfriend, Kevin Straight, 32, remain in the Cobb County Jail following their Dec. 22 arrest. Their baby spent more than a week in the hospital and is now in foster care.

White "admitted to squeezing her 2-month-old baby in an aggressive manner," the warrant states. White also admitted she could "feel the baby's bones, then immediately feel the swelling start," the warrant continues. Police did not say whether White made any further statements about her alleged actions.

After White finally took the baby to a hospital, a hospital employee called police, police said. Authorities took into protective custody a 1-year-old child who was living at the couple's home in the 1900 block of Atlanta Road.

White is charged with aggravated battery, felony cruelty to children and second-degree cruelty to children. She's being held on $100,000 bond. Straight is charged with second-degree cruelty to children and being held on $50,000 bond.

Their next court date has not been set.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Let good old Shavedlongcock and his wood shampoo stick break 20 bones in each of these shithead parents please....

Thanks RickEx101 for this news story.

Chicago police Mike McCotter puts the retirement papers in.... From the E-Mail department

Dear Shaved,
Just found out couple of hours ago. Mike McCotter retiring effective Jan 15. Another old school boss gone, allowing J-Fed to overpromote another ass wipe political hack like Aunt Bea or Tina.
so sad.

Fed Judges Rule Incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote in Washington to ensure that racial minorities are protected under the Voting Rights Act

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote in Washington to ensure that racial minorities are protected under the Voting Rights Act, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The 2-1 ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the 2000 ruling of a district judge in Spokane. That judge had ruled that state law did not violate the act, and dismissed a lawsuit filed bya former prison inmate from Bellevue.

The two appellate judges ruled that disparities in the state's justice system "cannot be explained in race-neutral ways."

The issues the ruling raises about racial bias in the justice system are not unique to Washington state, said Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C., group promoting sentencing reform.

"They are issues that permeate the justice system and are relevant in every state," he said.

A spokeswoman said state Attorney General Rob McKenna is weighing the state's next step.

The lawsuit was filed by Muhammad Shabazz Farrakhan of Bellevue. He was serving a three-year sentence at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla for a series of felony-theft convictions when he sued the state in 1996.

Ultimately, five other inmates, all members of racial minority groups, joined as plaintiffs.

The lawsuit contended that because nonwhites make up a large percentage of the prison population, a state law prohibiting inmates and parolees from voting is illegal because it dilutes the electoral clout of minorities.

That was a violation of the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965, the lawsuit said.

The state contended that the lawsuit should be dismissed because the law was not intended to discriminate against minorities.

Last year, lawmakers passed a law that allows convicted felons to reregister to vote once they're no longer on parole or probation. Previously, felons who were no longer in Washington state custody but owed court-ordered fines and restitution were not allowed to vote.

Washington's neighbor, Oregon, automatically restores voting rights to felons once they're released from prison. Nearly 40 other states and the District of Columbia also have less onerous restrictions on restoring voting rightsto felons.

Maine and Vermont are the only states that allow those behind bars to cast ballots.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

So basically these liberal asswipe federal judges are saying, we aren't making this ruling because it is the right thing to do but we are making this ruling because so many blacks are criminals that we must do it so blacks can vote.

TOTALLY AMAZING! How about this you asswipes... YOU WANT TO VOTE, DON'T COMMIT FELONIES! This country is going so backwards there is no way in the world it is going to survive.

Daley dismisses idea of merging McPier, sports authority - Too many clout jobs would go bye-bye

Daley dismisses idea of merging McPier, sports authority
The Tribune's Clout Street blog reports: Mayor Richard Daley today dismissed the idea of merging the troubled Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority with the sports agency that owns and operates U.S. Cellular Field.

McPier, the public agency that owns and operates Navy Pier and McCormick Place, would drag down the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, the mayor said.

"First of all, you can't take McCormick Place, which is not doing that well, and merge it with the Illinois sports authority, which is doing well," Daley said. "You're saddling the Illinois sports authority. You couldn't do that, no, it would be unfair."

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Give me a break. When did this asshole Mayor ever care about how well a business is doing? The only reason that Mayor Daley is against this idea is that there is about 100 clout jobs paying at or above $100,000.00 a year at the McPier Authority. AND THAT IS THE ONLY REASON.

Man pleads guilty in slaying of Chicago cop's son

Man pleads guilty in slaying of Chicago cop's son
A man pleaded guilty today to murdering a son of a Chicago police officer outside a South Side fast-food restaurant in 2007.

Darius Walton, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of murder without reaching a deal with prosecutors on his sentence. He faces a minimum of 45 years and up to life in prison.

Walton and a co-defendant were both charged in the fatal shooting of Ronald Heard Jr., 23, a son and namesake of Officer Ronald Heard Sr.

Authorities said Heard rebuffed Walton's attempts to sell him marijuana outside a restaurant at 69th Street and Western Avenue and then intervened when Walton attacked a woman when she also refused to buy drugs from him. Walton retrieved a gun from his co-defendant, Rashad Johnson, and then shot Heard five times.

Johnson, 21, pleaded guilty last year to a lesser charge and was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Tuesday's plea brought a measure of closure to Heard's family.

"The family was simply looking for a just outcome, and we think we've received it," said John Griffin, 63, Heard's uncle. He said he was thankful that Walton decided not to proceed with a trial, saying he was "glad that his [Heard's] mom didn't have to go through that."

Walton is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 28 by Circuit Judge Stanley Sacks

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

My deepest condolences to Officer Ronald Heard on the loss of his son.

Former Blackhawks star Chelios arrested for DUI

Former Blackhawks star Chris Chelios was arrested early Dec. 28 for speeding and driving under the influence, Westmont police said.
According to police, Chelios, now playing for the Chicago Wolves, was driving alone in a pickup truck east on Ogden Avenue in the area of Blackhawk Drive in Westmont when he was stopped.
Chelios was then taken to the Westmont police department, where he was charged and later released on bond. He has a Feb. 1 court date, according to reports.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Shit happens.... just surprised that the cops didn't just drive the guy home. But then again, he may have acted like an asshole...

Kenosha woman found chained in filth; 2 relatives charged

A former Chicago woman and her son have been charged after Kenosha police found the woman's 38-year-old intellectually disabled daughter at the family home disfigured from neglect, covered in her own excrement and chained to a weight bench.

Sally M. Adams, 56, and her son, Ernest Claiborne, 34, were arrested in their home in the 1300 block of 69th Street in Kenosha on Saturday. Police went there after the father of Adams' grandson complained to authorities that Adams had barred him from seeing his 2-year-old son since September and that Adams' own daughter might be neglected and chained to furniture in a filthy house, according to criminal complaints filed Monday.

Adams and Claiborne both face charges of felony false imprisonment, abuse of a person at risk and reckless endangerment in connection to their alleged treatment of the woman who is Adams' daughter and Claiborne's sister. Claiborne also faces a misdemeanor child neglect charge related to his treatment of the 2-year-old.

According to criminal complaints, the defendants both told police that the allegedly abused woman has the mental capacity of a 5-year-old.


Adams and Claiborne were both being held in Kenosha County Jail in lieu of $10,000 bail, according to the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department.

A Kenosha police officer went to Adams' and Claiborne's home about 4:45 p.m. Saturday in response to the child-abuse complaint from the boy's father. A 13-year-old boy answered the door, and Claiborne allowed the officer to come in to check on the boy's well-being, according to the complaints.

Inside, the officer found a home in "complete disarray" with "an odor of urine and faces so strong he nearly vomited," according to the complaints.

The officer found the 2-year-old boy in a small, dark bedroom, strapped in a car seat on top of a mattress. There was no food in the house suitable for the boy, the complaints said.

In the dining room, the officer found Adams' 38-year-old daughter lying on the floor and chained by her left ankle to a weight bench. The woman, who was shivering and wearing only a T-shirt, was covered in urine and feces, lying next to a similarly rank blanket, police said.

The woman, who was unable to communicate with police, weighed between 60 and 70 pounds, according to the complaints. She could not straighten her legs, stand or walk.

Claiborne told officers he didn't know where the key to the chain on the woman's leg was, and said she had been chained to the weight bench because she otherwise would leave the house and get lost, police said.

The 13-year-old who answered the door told police he had known Adams and Claiborne about 3 years, and that she had chained that whole time. He said she was only unchained "once in a while" to be cleaned, the complaints state.

In a later police interview, Claiborne claimed he had been planning on taking a nap about 4 p.m. Saturday, and that his sister had been chained because his mother had gone shopping.

He said he had not taken her to the bathroom or fed her Saturday.

Claiborne explained he had put the 2-year-old in the car seat so the boy would not disturb him as he napped.

Kenosha Fire Rescue had to cut the chain to free the woman. When she was being taken to Kenosha Hospital, police found she had ligature marks on her ankle, as well as 10 to 15 marks on her back, according to the complaints.


In statements to police after she returned to her home and as she was taken to the police station, Adams denied knowing who had chained up her daughter, but echoed her son's statement that her daughter was intellectually disabled and would run off if not chained.

Adams told police her daughter could use the bathroom herself "if she remembers," and could feed herself and talk. But she said she gave her over-the-counter sleeping pills to keep her from leaving the house, the complaints state.

The father of the boy told police that between 1999 and 2006, when Adams and her daughter lived in Chicago, he frequently visited their home and saw the daughter walking and using the bathroom, the complaints state.

Adams had in the past locked the doors to keep her daughter from leaving home, but the father told police he had only heard second-hand before Saturday about the daughter being chained up.

Adams and Claiborne were scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing Jan. 12 in Kenosha County Circuit Court before Judge Carl Greco.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

I knew a few women in my life who liked to be handcuffed and sometimes even handcuffed to the bed... But this is a little extreme.....

What sick prick stabs a 90 year old woman to death?

A 90-year-old woman died Monday after she was stabbed, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
Sylvia Lev, of 3300 Carriage Way Drive in Arlington Heights, was pronounced dead at at 9:50 p.m. at Holy Family Medical Center in Des Plaines, according to a spokesman for the medical examiner's office.
It was not immediately known when or where Lev was stabbed, according to the spokesman.
Arlington Heights police are investigating but were not available immediately.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

You have to be one sick puppy to stab a 90 year old woman to death. And as I have said so many times on this blog, I bet the murderer of this 90 year old woman is a subject who has been released early from prison more than a few times.

I will update this story when more information becomes available.

Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Shooter was a Male Black but don't expect to read that in any newspaper

Las Vegas Gunman Upset Over Social Security Benefits
A gunman upset over losing his Social Security benefits case, opened fire in the lobby of a federal building in downtown Las Vegas on Monday, killing a court officer and wounding a deputy U.S. marshal before he was shot to death.

Two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized to discuss the case, identified the shooter as Johnny Lee Wicks to the Associated Press.

While an investigation is under way, the officials say the early evidence points to the man's anger over his benefits as motive for the shooting.

Court records shoe Wicks sued the Social security Administration in 2008, but the case was thrown out and formally closed in September 2009.

Dave Oney, spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, told Fox News that the deputy marshal and a court security officer were shot at approximately 8 a.m. in the lobby of the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse.

The 48-year-old deputy marshal was hospitalized; the 65-year-old security officer died.

FBI Special Agent Joseph Dickey said the gunman died across the street shortly after the shootout. The man's identity and motive were not immediately known.

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Secret Service Admits That Another Couple Snuck Into the White House With No Credentials At All

The US Secret Service has announced that the above couple was able to sneak into the White House without any credentials at all.

Add a few more murders to the murder total including this Chicago Lawn murder

Chicago police remove the body from the scene of a fatal shooting on the 6000 block of South Richmond Street. (Tribune / Terrence Antonio James)

Man fatally shot in Chicago Lawn
A young man was shot to death this afternoon in the city's Chicago Lawn community, police said.

The body of the unidentified man believed to be in his 20s was found on West 61st Street near Richmond Street at about 5:15 p.m. He suffered a gunshot wound to the head, authorities said.

Witnesses reported hearing between five and 15 shots, and three men were seen fleeing the scene. The victim lay on his back, his jeans dusted with snow, and his face and torso were covered by a small blanket.

The victim, whom Chicago police moved at about 7 p.m., was pronounced dead a short time later, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday morning. Police offered no motive for the slaying other than saying he was probably a piece of shit criminal.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

More and more murders in single digit temps! What for this year's murder total to be big, very big!

This has to be a first! Suburban police fatally shoot a Prince - Prince Akbar to be exact

Police in south suburban Calumet City shot and killed a Chicago spoken word artist who, they say, pummeled two officers after he behaved erratically at a school office building.

The male and female officers were recovering from facial injuries caused during the Monday afternoon attack. Killed was Prince Akbar, 32, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Calumet City Police Chief Ed Gilmore said Akbar, of the 500 block of South State Street, seriously beat the officers who responded to an emergency call at the Thornton Fractional Center in the 1600 block of Wentworth Avenue.

Police were called to the school building after, according to witnesses, Akbar went into the building "yelling and screaming without provocation," Gilmore said. After asking to use a telephone and being told that only a pay phone was available to him, Akbar exited the building, walking into traffic and waving at cars. The 6-foot-1, 265-pound Akbar returned to the building clutching money, then left again, heading northbound on Wentworth Avenue on foot. The incident lasted from 12:30 p.m. to about 12:55 p.m., when the two officers arrived, police said.

A witness told police that, at about 1 p.m., the male officer fatally wounded Akbar while he was beating the female officer. Police fielded three emergency calls, with at least one caller describing Akbar as appearing "to be off his meds," Gilmore said.

Witnesses told police the female officer, who will mark her second year on the job in February, was the first to encounter Akbar outside of the building, but was overcome by him, Gilmore said. The male officer, a 15-year veteran, also was unable to subdue him, Gilmore said.

Despite both officers trying to taser their attacker, the weapon had no effect, police said. Akbar knocked the female officer to the ground, dazing her, and then went after the male officer, beating him to semi-consciousness, before returning to beat the female officer.

The male officer "came to, got up and fired two times, shooting the offender," Gilmore said. Akbar was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Gilmore said the officers suffered facial lacerations, swelling, and possible broken facial bones. He said the heavily-medicated officers were in no condition to make statements when he left Monday afternoon.

Akbar, whose Web site claims he graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from Columbia College, performed at open mic and poetry "slam" events. In March 2003, Akbar electrified the crowd and hip-hop impressario Russell Simmons at the Metro for an event whose proceeds benefitted a Columbia College scholarship for graduates of Chicago Public High Schools, according to a Chicago Tribune article. Akbar's poetry often centered on politics and racism and often compared war to street violence.

It was unclear exactly why Akbar went to the administrative offices. Members of Akbar's family couldn't be reached for comment.

The shooting is being investigated by the Cook County state's attorney's office and the Illinois State Police's public integrity unit.

An autopsy on Akbar was expected for Tuesday.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

You got to love this line in the above news story:
Police in south suburban Calumet City shot and killed a "Chicago spoken word artist"

If this asswipe is a spoken word artist then Shavedlongcock is a written word artist!

What a Shame... A Prince who was just about to turn his life around... maybe to become a toad.....

Best wishes to the two officers injured in this incident. May your recovery be quick and full.

As any attorney knows - the more this story is in the press the better chance at the city settling it - $100 Million Dollar Lawsuit

Photo: Rick and Kathy Paine visit with their daughter Christina Eilman, 21, at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago on Aug. 22, 2006. (Chicago Tribune / Nancy Stone)

New details of woman's fateful fall
Records show how Christina Eilman ended up at a South Side high-rise

A fall from a seventh-floor public-housing apartment in May 2006 left Christina Eilman permanently brain-damaged. Now her parents are suing the city for $100 million, contending that police negligence placed her in harm's way without the wherewithal to seek help or protection.

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Detective Shavedlomgcock:

For those of you who know the facts surrounding this case, they are NOT good for the Chicago police department. There were some major screw ups surrounding this incident. If this case would go to trial, I feel there is a very good chance that the city might be hit with a $100 million dollar PLUS verdict.

I think the city will end up settling this matter prior to a trial beginning.