Chuck E. Cheese puts the squeeze on thugs - Harlem branch's is on lock-down & gangsta ban

Harlem's Chuck E. Cheese is now a maximum-security play penitentiary.

As they enter the arcade and pizza parlor "where a kid can be a kid," parents and their young children are given a list of prohibitions more stringent than Rikers Island's.

"No gang-style apparel, including but not limited to hats, shirts, buckles, bandanas, towels," reads an enormous sign installed last month.

"No gang-type conduct or behavior, including verbal slogans, greetings, hand signs or intimidation. No weapons or tools or any sort whatsoever; including knives, chains, screwdrivers, glass cutters."

By comparison, visitors to Rikers Island are not banned from wearing gang colors, but skimpy or "see-through" garments are prohibited.

Even though Chuck E. Cheese's games and animatronic entertainers are geared to a very young clientele, the arcades have been the sites of violence.

Similar bans have already been established at Chuck E. Cheese's locations in Michigan and Wisconsin following drunken brawls involving as many as 80 customers, but none of the other New York City locations have instituted the new rules.

New Yorkers said they could not fathom why Bloods, Crips or Latin Kings would want to wage turf wars in the ball pits.

"It's ridiculous. I don't see gangs going into Chuck E. Cheese's," said Tish Payne, 28, who yesterday visited the Harlem location with her 1-year-old.

"They probably put the sign up because of the location. It's adding to the stereotype that Harlem is trying to deviate from."

The signs were posted in locations with higher crime rates, a Chuck E. Cheese's spokeswoman said, and are now installed at 25 percent of the company's more than 500 arcades nationwide.

Some parents said that they appreciated the ban even if they had never felt in danger at Chuck E. Cheese's.

"There's a lot of gangs out there," said Shaneekqua Williams, 21. "To know they can't come in here makes me feel safer."

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

And you have to love this little ghetto breeder:

"It's ridiculous. I don't see gangs going into Chuck E. Cheese's," said Tish Payne, 28, who yesterday visited the Harlem location with her 1-year-old.
"They probably put the sign up because of the location. It's adding to the stereotype that Harlem is trying to deviate from."

Your so right lady! This multi-billion dollar company wants to start all these new rules and regulations just to make the Black New York Harlem Chuck E. Cheese look bad!

You can walk into just about any Chuck E. Cheese in any urban area and look around... It looks like a mixture of crackheads, teenage mothers and strange looking dudes who are probably registered as sex offenders somewhere. In most cases the mommas are acting worse than the kids. Holding a cell phone to one ear with 8 inch painted ghetto fingernails and yelling to their babies, "Get the muther fuck over here now!"

And as for this sentence: (It's adding to the stereotype that Harlem is trying to deviate from.) Just for your knowledge young lady, stereotypes just don't change because you want them to change. They change when your behavior and actions change. So just because you don't want gangbanging & violence associated with your black community - it's not going to go away until the gangbanging & violence goes away.

I believe metal detectors will be going in soon too....

Thanks to dm60462 for this news story.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart Announces Prostitution Arrest

CLICKING ON ANY IMAGE WILL DISPLAY THAT IMAGE FULL SIZESheriff Tom Dart: Northbrook woman charged with prostitution

The owner of a North Side massage parlor was arrested on prostitution charges after she offered to perform sex acts on an undercover Cook County sheriff's officer, officials said today.
Christy Chin, 37, of Northbrook, who is believed to be the owner of Therapy Spa, 3334 W. Peterson Ave., was charged with prostitution, keeping a place of prostitution and performing a massage without a license, Cook County Sheriff's officials said in a press release.
Chin was arrested Saturday after she offered to perform a sex act on the undercover officer. The arrest occurred on the officer's second visit to the parlor. On the first visit Chin did not offer sex to the undercover officer but did so on the second visit after the officer became a returning client, officials said.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Sheriff Tom Dart please remember: All employees must wash hands before returning to work, please!

Los Angeles Police - Hundreds of full & part time sheriffs are laid off but K-9 dogs to stay

Police Departments Cut People, but Not K-9 Units
LOS ANGELES — One hundred sheriff's deputies and 400 part-time deputies were laid off. Narcotics and gang units were disbanded. Helicopters were grounded.

K-9 police dog units remained on the job.

To absorb more than $30 million in losses, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department had to focus almost exclusively on answering emergency calls, but police dogs and their handlers survived the cuts. It's a scenario that is playing out among the thousands of K-9 teams across the U.S. that have survived deep budget cuts to stay on the job.

In part that's because dogs are winning the popularity contest. In a few towns where K-9 dogs were cut, citizens rallied to raise money to keep the animals at work. They've even had help from celebrity friends like Ozzy Osbourne, who donated a K-9 dog to the Muncie, Indiana, Police Department in September.

But there are other advantages to keeping animals on the job. They protect the officers they work with, do jobs that people can't and use bites, not bullets.

"When you look at the tremendous savings in man-hours that are achieved by using trained dogs to search for suspects or victims or narcotics or explosives, it's very easy to recognize the fact that they are the probably the most cost efficient tool we have," said Officer Bill Cassell of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Dogs can run faster, get into tighter spots and look more menacing than most humans. Plus they have stronger noses, better hearing and better vision, at least under low light conditions.

"They are so valuable, so important to what police officers do," said Pamela Reid, vice president of the ASPCA's Animal Behavior Center in Urbana, Illinois.

In San Diego, police eliminated 12 dogs from its K-9 corps to save around $500,000 of the $15 million it had to cut. But the department still has 27 dogs on the force in a city where a use-of-force panel recommended more K-9 units because of the number of people being shot by officers.

That was 20 years ago, and things have changed, said Assistant Chief Bob Kanaski.

"I don't expect to see a rise in officer-involved shootings," he said. "We'll miss the dogs, no doubt about it. We'll have to use different tactics to slow things down until we get the dogs there."

Cleveland, Ohio, reduced its K-9 unit in 2004 when the department lost 252 jobs, but the dogs were all reinstated, said Tom Ross, recording secretary for the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association.

To a street officer, the benefits of a dog are immeasurable, Ross said. "If they (suspects) think you're going to let that dog go, it's going to influence their decision (to run or surrender)," Ross said.

No K-9 in the country has more job security right now than Nitro, the lone K-9 at the Aberdeen, Washington, Police Department. Nitro was laid off in May as police struggled to wring every last cent from a shriveling budget, Chief Robert Torgerson said.

But the German shepherd was back two months later because the department received $14,000 in donations from around the country and a $43,000 check from the philanthropic Tamaki Foundation in Seattle. That was enough to buy a new dog vest, the department a new K-9 car and guarantee Nitro four more years on the job, Torgerson said.

"It was great. We were blessed," Torgerson said.

The Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, Police Department laid off their three dogs one year ago, Chief Leo Sokoloski said, when town fathers chose to eliminate them instead of the department's 26 sworn and civilian personnel. It saved $5,000 to $6,000, the chief said.

A lot of people heard about it and sent money. Several thousand dollars came in.

"But in the interest of fairness to the good will of the people, we sent the money back with gratitude. The council's decision was not to reimplement the program," Sokoloski said. "We decided it was prudent to wait and see if the economy gets better."

A K-9 dog costs between $10,000 and $20,000, and must be trained along with its handler, said Sacramento Deputy Brian Amos. Even so, dogs are the "cheapest employee that any agency will ever have," said Russ Hess, director of the United States Police Canine Association.

"He only works for the love and his food," he said.

Every department in the country is cutting everything they can, said Jeff Meyer, the publisher of Police K-9 Magazine in Lakewood, Colorado, but you don't see the public support for other programs the way you do for the dogs.

Pittsburgh Steelers' quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's foundation has donated money to that city's police department for K-9s and equipment. He also donates a dog to all the cities where the Steelers play each year.

The 22 K-9 teams with the St. Paul, Minnesota, Police Department became mini celebrities when their unit was featured in an Animal Planet cable television series.

"It was one of the first opportunities for people to see what police dogs do, not only here, but across the country, every day," Sgt. Paul Dunum said.

Dunum said he is constantly amazed by what the dogs do. One of the best things is winning over people.

Money, Dunum said, can't buy that kind of good will.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Only in America can law enforcement officers and cops can be laid off because these states claim they are broke but we keep giving WELFARE, LINK, FOOD STAMPS, HOUSING, MEDICAL to every fucking illegal alien who comes into our country ILLEGALLY!

Plane hits deer on take off, makes emergency landing

Photo: Deer Vs. Airplane (File Photo)

WHEELING --- A plane struck a deer while taking off from a north suburban airport Sunday night, damaging its landing gear and causing an emergency landing in northwest suburban Wheeling.

The Piper aircraft did not have its left main gear (one of the wheels the plane lands on) when it touched down on runway 16 at Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory.

The plane’s landing gear was damaged when it struck a deer while taking off from a local airport, and contacted Chicago Executive Airport for an emergency landing, said Wheeling Battalion Chief Dave Palmeri.

The plane landed at the Wheeling airport on two wheels “without incident” and came to rest on its left wing shortly after 6 p.m. The six people aboard were all related to each other, and no injuries were reported, Palmeri said.

The plane was en route to the airport from Campbell Airport in north suburban Grayslake at the time, Cory said.

The plane is a fixed-wing multi-engine aircraft registered to a owner from north suburban Mundelein, according to registry on the FAA’s Web site.

The incident temporarily closed the airport, Cory said. As of 7:30 p.m., the plane had been moved into an airport hanger and officials were slowly reopening the airport, Palmeri said.

Fire departments from Wheeling and Prospect Heights responded to the incident.

The FAA will investigate the incident, Cory said.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

My buddy Marty can't hit a deer with an arrow or a buckshot or even a high power rifle... But this airplane was able to hit it without even trying. Amazing.

Two Different Chicago Vehicle Crashes Sends 24 People to the Hospital

Crash between CTA bus and truck injures 13

A crash between a CTA bus and a semitrailer truck left 13 people injured, one critically, on the West Side, officials said.
The crash occurred about 4:45 p.m. at the intersection of Loomis Street and Cermak Road, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Quention Curtis.
The accident involved a CTA bus where 12 people were injured, he said. The driver of the semitrailer truck was also injured but he refused treatment, Curtis said.
Of the injuries, the most serious was a woman who was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital. Two people were taken in fair to serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital and two other people were taken in good condition to the University of Chicago Hospital, he said.
The other victims refused treatment at the scene, Curtis said.
Officials are investigating the crash, he said.

South Side crash hospitalizes 11, including 7 kids

Chicago Fire Department officials took 11 people to area hospitals -- including 7 children -- after a two-vehicle crash on the city's South Side this afternoon, officials said.
The children were taken by ambulance to area hospitals in fair-to-good condition and three adults were also transported in fair-to-good condition, said Chicago Fire Department Spokesman Quention Curtis.
One adult was hospitalized in critical condition, said Curtis.
The accident occurred about 2:40 p.m. at the intersection of 68th Street and Racine Avenue, Curtis said. The crash involved two vans and required a multi-ambulance response, Curtis said.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Think about how many ambulances were tied up taking 24 different people to the hospital emergency room. And with hardly any real traffic enforcement in this city, the number of traffic accidents will keep on rising and the number of hit & runs are basically countless.

Standing, Sitting or Lying - No matter what you did last night on the South side - You got shot

Man Shot Sitting in Car on the South Side

A man was shot sitting in his vehicle this morning on the South Side, officials said.
At about 2:10 a.m., the victim was sitting in the 7600 block of South Ashland Avenue when an unknown suspect approached and fired several shots, said police.
The man was taken to Holy Cross Hospital. There was no information available about his condition.
Police are investigating.

Man Shot Standing Outside on South Side

A man was shot early this morning while standing on the street on the South Side.
At about 3:24 a.m., officers responded to shots fired in the 700 block of East 92nd Street, said police. When they arrived, police found a man with a gunshot wound to his pelvic area.
The victim was standing outside when an unknown suspect approached and fired in his direction, said police.
He was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. There was no information available about the victim's age or condition.
Police are investigating.

Man Shot Dead Found Lying on South Side Front Yard

A 22-year-old man was found shot in the face and unresponsive this morning on Chicago's South Side.
Jovan Kelly, of the 8600 block of South Paxton Avenue, was pronounced dead this morning, according to a spokeswoman for the Cook County medical examiner's office.
At about 2:06 a.m., officers responded to shos fired in the 0-99 block of East Garfield Boulevard and found Kelly shot in the face and unresponsive, said police. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police are investigating.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Those three news stories actually ran one after another in this morning's Chicago Tribune On-Line. I thought as soon as I saw them - One is Sitting, One is Standing and One is Lying Down - AND THEY WERE ALL SHOT ON THE SOUTH SIDE.

You couldn't make this shit up any better.

Since my head is the size of a watermelon - Remind me not to place my head between her thighs!

Click to watch Shavedlongcock's fiancee'

We haven't seen this since the last Bill Clinton party - 40,000 prostitutes bound for South Africa for the 2010 World Cup, officials warn

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart wants to go to Africa and save these whores and any puppies being used for sex acts.

Officials are warning that tens of thousands of sex workers could enter South Africa during this year’s World Cup, and that children are at risk of being targeted by the sex trade.

World Cup organizers say up to 40,000 prostitutes were recruited for this year’s event, which takes place in a country where 16 percent of the population is believed to be living with HIV.

Officials also raised the possibility that local children would be recruited into the prostitution business partly due to the fact that World Cup takes place during a four week national school holiday.

The concerns were raised at a meeting of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Davis Bayever, South Africa’s deputy chair of the country’s Central Drug Authority, said his government feared the large influx of sex workers and pledged an attempt to stem the tide.

"It's horrific and very concerning," Bayever said. "Money talks, and if you're a sex worker then there is going to be money in South Africa in 2010."

Bayever said that passport checks, screening, and profiling will take place at the borders to try and prevent illegal arrivals. He believes the women will be traveling from all over the world, especially Eastern Europe.

Especially troubling was the prospect that impoverished children would be lured into sex work by the country’s sordid drug and prostitution underworld.

"There is no doubt that they will be targeted to become prostitutes," Bayever said. "Children from poor rural families will be given a carrot by criminals who tell them they will have a job if they come to the big city."

Around 450,000 fans are expected to travel to South Africa to attend this year’s World Cup.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:

This basically works out to ONE whore for every TEN fan.

Not sure about you but I want to go and get sloppy last!

During a live broadcast on Italian television, two news men duke it out behind the anchor desk.

Sheriff deputy tries to shoot his way out of jail cell

COLUMBIA, Ky. -- A Kentucky sheriff says a claustrophobic deputy has lost his job after accidentally locking himself in a jail cell and trying to shoot his way out of it.
Adair County Sheriff Ralph Curry tells WKYT-TV that no one was hurt when Charles Wright fired his weapon.
It happened Monday, the first day a new $12.4 million county judicial center was open to the public after more than a year of construction.
Curry says the former deputy has claustrophobia and has agreed to pay for the damage he did to the cell.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

I really don't make these news stories up. There is actually many of these news story gems out there if you look.

Latest Phone Scheme Offers a Police Officer at Your Door with a large check!

Seven thousand dollars from the government and a police officer delivering it by hand. That's the promise of a phone scheme reported to the Oshkosh Police Department.

A citizen told police a caller said she was receiving $7,000 from the U.S. government but the caller needed her bank account number.

She was also told the money would be delivered in person by a police officer, who would ask for $99 to be given to a charity.

The woman was given a phone number in the 202 area code to call, which is the area code for Washington, D.C.

When Oshkosh police called the number, a person answered and hung up on them. When police called back, the call was picked up by an answering machine saying they reached the "Interfederal Grant Department."

Oshkosh police remind people not to give out personal information in a phone call they did not initiate. They also remind people that government agencies won't ask for your bank account number and police officers do not deliver

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

It is truly amazing how many people actually fall for these bullshit scams. If somebody calls you - believe me, IT'S A SCAM.

Another Democratic Homo Congressman Takes a Nose Dive - And who knows where that fruitcake nose has been!

Rep. Eric Massa quits House over homo sex scandal: 'This ethics issue is my fault and mine alone' Rep. Eric Massa (D-29th NY) speaks to the media outside his office in the Longworth House Office Building at the US Capitol as he adjusts his large black inflatable butt plug.

Rep. Eric Massa caved to Democratic Party pressure Friday, announcing in a message awash with self-reproach and shame that he's quitting to avoid a sexual harassment investigation.

Massa, a western New York freshman, also insisted he's stepping down because of cancer, but ethics officials are looking into a male staffer's complaint he was made "uncomfortable" by Massa.

The 24-year Navy vet and Annapolis grad had planned to finish his term and maintained if he committed harassment, it was only inadvertent "salty" language.

"An ethics investigation would tear my family and my staff apart," he said, alternately blaming himself and the "incredibly toxic atmosphere in Washington" for his predicament.

"This ethics issue is my fault and mine alone," and "I own this reality," he wrote on his House Web site.

"During long car rides, in the early hours of the evening, late at night and always in private, I know that my own language failed to meet the standards that I set," he wrote.

"I am also aware that blogs and radio will have a field day with this in today's destructive and unforgiving political environment."

Party leaders certainly thought so, and a Capitol Hill Democrat confirmed they wanted Massa gone.

Their fear was his alleged tawdry behavior would taint the party the way Republicans suffered in 2006 after revelations that GOP Rep. Mark Foley allegedly carried on lurid text conversations with male House pages.

"This is what we're going to talk about for eight months" if Democrats can't dump Massa, the party member said, remembering how the Foley case helped trash the GOP.

By quitting, Massa may avoid a full airing of any dirty laundry. Such investigations continue after legislators resign, but watchdogs said they rarely produce results.

"Technically, it doesn't die, but in reality we're unlikely to ever see a result," said Melanie Sloan, head of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

It's up to Gov. Paterson to call a special election to fill the seat. Ex-Rep. Randy Kuhl, who lost to Massa in 2008, is among those thinking about running.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Just another asswipe committing crimes against nature... Trying to booger his male driver. Too funny. Now the little panzy has to step down from his elected office.

Too bad they couldn't get every elected queer to step down!

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter proposing a 2 cents per ounce Soda/Beverage Tax

Soda tax makes gas tax look wimpy
By Peter Mucha

Inquirer Staff Writer

Per gallon, the soft drink tax proposed by Mayor Nutter would cost consumers almost as much as gas.

The final price at the pump.

Not just the tax on gas.

At 2 cents an ounce, the proposed tax on soft drinks - any beverage with added sugar, including ice tea and chocolate milk - would cost $2.56 a gallon.

At the WaWa on the Black Horse Pike in Mount Ephraim, a gallon of regular goes for just $2.53.

Including about 33 cents for state and federal gas taxes.

At the Shell at 12th and Vine in Philadelphia, a gallon of regular costs $2.86, according to Joe Yu, who works for S&B Auto Services, which owns the station.

That's including 51 cents for gas taxes - about 32 cents for Pennsylvania, 18.4 for the feds, according to the Washington, D.C., based Tax Foundation.

So, before taxes, that gas would cost $2.35 - less than the city's proposed sugary soft-drink tax alone.

Gasoline is cheaper than the soda tax itself - before being charged for any soda.

Now let's add the soda and play percentages.

Gas taxes add about 21 percent to the cost of regular at S&B's Shell station.

Two-liter bottles of Coke are on sale at the Acme - get 10 for $10. Roughly, a liter is little more than a quart, so that's about $2 a gallon - cheaper than gas.

Now add the approximately $2.56 in soda tax.

That's 128 percent more.

Gulp, now the cost is 10 bottles is close to $23, not counting sales tax.

(Makes you wonder ... how much is adding seltzer to grape juice or OJ? Juices without "added sugar" wouldn't be taxed - even if they're also obesity-promoting, according to the American Medical Association.)

Per gallon, the $2.56 soft-drink tax would be way more than state beer taxes - 8 cents in Pennsylvania, 12 in New Jersey.

Stiffer, though, are taxes that wind up added to distilled spirits - estimated at $6.54 a gallon in Pennsylvania, $5.50 in New Jersey, according to the Tax Foundation.

Even more extreme are cigarette taxes. An ounce of water weighs an ounce, so a beverage tax is like a tax by weight. A pack of cigarettes weighs about 1 ounce, so 128 ounces (the equivalent of a gallon) would be about 128 packs taxed at $1.35 each in Pennsylvania. That's almost $173. Double that in Jersey.

But that's not quite the record for tax-sticker shock.

Consider other taxes by the pound. Like sales tax on a diamond.

But most maddening are all those taxes on your light-as-a-feather paycheck - hundreds of dollars for a fraction of an ounce.

Use direct deposit and the weight becomes zero - making the per-ounce tax rate infinite.

Ouch.

I may need something stronger than a soda.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:

I do see a revolution coming soon... It will make our first civil war look like a kid's playground fight...

The working class people are getting tired of paying for baby breeders, ghetto kings and the lame.

What a close game it wsn't! White Sox beat Cubs 15-3 Yes the Sox beat the Cubs by only 12 runs!

MESA, Ariz. -- Carlos Quentin homered twice off Carlos Silva and drove in five runs Saturday, leading a White Sox split squad to a 15-3 victory over the Cubs.

Healthy after being limited to 99 games and 21 homers last season due to plantar fasciitis in his left foot, Quentin hit a two-run shot in the first inning and a three-run home run in the second as part of an 18-hit, five-homer attack.

Silva, hoping to earn one of two available spots in the Cubs' rotation, allowed six runs on seven hits in two innings.

Cubs left fielder Alfonso Soriano, playing for the first time since arthroscopic knee surgery cut short his disappointing 2009 season, made a diving catch in the second inning but also booted a routine ball for an error and went 0 for 2 at the plate.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

The Southside Sox kicked some major ass here... I am sure the new owner of the Cubs was having buyers remorse!

Police: 8 teens shot while leaving a concert at a roller rink in Gary, Indiana

Gary, IN - Police today said no arrests had been made in the shooting of eight teenage boys leaving a concert at a skating rink in Gary Friday night.

Gary Police Cpl. Gabrielle King said "chaos broke loose" when a fight took place during the Friday night event at World of Skates and security advised attendees to leave.

Police said the shooting started in the parking lot.

The wounded teens were transported to three area hospitals, where some remained Saturday.

Police said they ranged in age from 14 to 18, with wounds in the legs, wrist, stomach or back. King said injuries weren't believed to be life-threatening.

King said Saturday evening no arrests had been made. A message seeking comment was left at World of Skates.

King said the wounded weren't clear on what prompted the shooting.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Can minorities ever have an event where fights, shootings and mayhem doesn't break out? It is the same shit over and over again. From Chuck E. Cheese to Roller Rinks, it's one big mayhem after another.

Are Street Gangs Booby Trapping Cop Cars? Gang Police Officer's Car Booby Trapped With Deadly Device

An anti-gang officer in Hemet, Calif., discovered a deadly device attached to his car Friday — in what appears to be the third attempt in the past two months to injure or kill members of an anti-gang unit in southwest Riverside County, MyFoxLA.com reported.

An officer with the Hemet/San Jacinto Gang Task Force called for back-up after discovering a threatening device next to his car, parked outside of a store. Authorities cordoned off the intersection near the vehicle while a bomb unit disabled the instrument.

The explosive device had been affixed to the vehicle prior to the officer's drive to the store, Hemet police Lt. Duane Wisehart told MyFoxLA.com.

"We're not releasing what type of device it was," Wisehart said. "All we can say is it would have killed or injured the officer if it had done what it was supposed to do."

Authorities have not yet named a suspect.

The booby trap comes months after authorities discovered a natural gas line on the roof of the task force's headquarters building had been redirected into the facility — filling it with gas, which could have caused an explosion. In February, an anti-gang officer was opening a gate at the task force's office when he was nearly struck by a bullet that was part of a booby trap triggered when the gate moved, MyFoxLA.com reported.

The task force is now operating from an undisclosed location.

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of whoever is responsible for the previous two attacks.

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Anti-Gang Officer's Car Booby Trapped
Updated: Friday, 05 Mar 2010, 11:28 PM PST
Published : Friday, 05 Mar 2010, 11:28 PM PST

Reporter:
Al Naipo
Text Story by:
City News
Posted by: Scott Coppersmith / myFOXla.com

Hemet - An anti-gang officer in Hemet discovered today that a device had been attached to his car with potentially deadly consequences -- in what appears to be the third attempt in two months to injure or kill members of an anti-gang unit in southwest Riverside County.

According to Hemet police, around 8 a.m., a member of the Hemet/San Jacinto Gang Task Force parked his unmarked vehicle next to an AM/PM store at 298 S. Sanderson Ave. and spotted a threatening device adjacent to the car.

The Hemet police officer immediately cleared the area and requested the sheriff's bomb squad to investigate, said Hemet police Lt. Duane Wisehart.

Authorities cordoned off the intersection of Sanderson and Acacia avenues and closed access to the area from surrounding streets and parking lots, Wisehart said.

"We're not releasing what type of device it was," he told City News Service. "All we can say is it would have killed or injured the officer if it had done what it was supposed to do."

According to the lieutenant, the explosive device had been affixed to the officer's vehicle prior to his arriving at the mini mart.

The sheriff's bomb unit disabled the instrument, and the area was reopened to traffic around 1 p.m., Wisehart said.

No suspects have been identified.

The task force, which is comprised of Riverside County sheriff's deputies, Hemet police officers and other law enforcement officials, has been targeted twice before.

On Dec. 31, authorities discovered that a natural gas line on the roof of the task force's headquarters building had been redirected into the facility, filling it with gas, which could have caused an explosion.

On Feb. 23, an anti-gang officer was opening a gate at the task force's office in the 500 block of Saint John Place when he was nearly struck by a bullet that was part of a booby trap triggered when the gate moved.

The task force is now operating from an undisclosed location.

On Tuesday, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of whoever is responsible for the previous two attacks.

"I'd like to think the money will lead us to the people doing this," said Wisehart. "There's no honor among thieves, so hopefully someone will give it up."

He said the threats not only create undue stress, but tear investigators away from other cases.

"Some things end up on the back-burner when you've got this kind of intense investigation," Wisehart said.

Authorities suspect area gangs are behind the attacks.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Posted for Law Enforcement / Safety Information.

Man posing as fire inspector makes off with more than $500 cash & a purse from local health club

A man posing as a fire inspector bilked the staff of a downtown athletic club of $260 for what he claimed were fire code violations and made off with more than $300 from a purse at the club this morning, police said.

The man came into the private Lakeshore Athletic Club at 211 N. Stetson Dr. about 8:30 a.m. and used deceptive practices to steal more than $500, said Chicago Police News Officer Robert Perez.

The man was carrying a file folder with papers in it and wearing a blue jacket with the words "Chicago Fire Department" in white lettering on the back, police said. He told staff at the club that he was a fire inspector and proceeded to look around in what appeared to the staff to be a professional manner, finding fire extinguishers and looking for fire code violations, police said.

After the man had looked around for a while, he told staff at the club that there were some violations and that they owed $260 in fines, police said. The staff gave him the money, police said.

While the man was at the club, among the rooms he entered was one in which a purse had been set down; after he left, it was discovered that $300 was missing from the purse, police said.

About 10 a.m., after the man had left, staff called police.

The man was described as black, between the ages of 55 and 60, about 6 feet tall and clean-cut, police said. He was wearing blue jeans and the jacket he wore -- blue with "Chicago Fire Department" spelled out -- is not regulation Fire Department garb, police said.

The Fire Department does not generally do inspections on the weekends, except at nightclubs as part of a city task force, a spokesman said.

"Believe me, when they come, you know it's the Fire Department," said department spokesman Quention Curtis.

When fire personnel make inspections, they usually are either in full field uniform, or wearing a dress uniform, not wearing windbreakers, Curtis said.

Anyone suspicious about someone claiming to be a fire inspector in Chicago should call 311 or 911, Curtis said.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

We got our teen aged fake cop and now our elderly fake fireman....

Here's a tip for all you business owners... It is hard enough to find a real fire inspector on a weekday, if one shows up on the weekend, he is FAKE!

Chicago Cop's New Book Hits the Streets - "The Wagon - and other stories from the city" by Officer Martin Preib

Cop’s book defies stereotypes
‘When you’re hauling people, you hear their stories’
Newspaper Story Written by John Kass

Martin Preib is a Chicago cop. And he's a Chicago writer.

You hear that a cop has written a book, and there's a temptation, grounded in stereotype, to think of stock characters: a tough guy, sultry women, Outfit bagmen with plenty of attitude and, of course, gunplay.

But his book, "The Wagon and Other Stories From the City" ( University of Chicago Press, $20) isn't pulp fiction.

It's about the real Chicago, the city of tribes, the city many of you know, not that fictional metropolis sometimes offered in magazines and TV shows.

Here are the first paragraphs of Preib's story "The Wagon":

The dead seek the lowest places in Chicago. We find them in basements, laundry rooms, on floors next to couches, sticking out of two parked cars or shrubs next to the sidewalk. It is more than gravity that pulls them down, for in every dead body there is something more willfully downward: the lowest possible place, the head shrunken into the chest and turned toward the floor.

No matter the cause — an accident, a murder, or, as we cite on the Hospitalization Case report, natural causes — all bodies express this downwardness when we remove them from the cavern they have created merely by their presence, by their being.

So there are no blondes in red dresses. No detectives with cleft chins. It hooked me right there. And if there's a hero, the hero is an intelligent man trying to figure things out.

"I think I'm a born wagon man," Preib told me. "The thing about being on a wagon is that you get to get involved in everything. When you're hauling people, you hear their stories."

Except the dead. When Preib started as a wagon man as a rookie out of the academy, wagon men still hauled the dead and the living. These days, the dead are hauled by outside contractors. Preib works from a patrol car on the North Side.

He's been a bartender, a waiter, a doorman at the Allerton Hotel. He studied dead languages and the classics and Walt Whitman. And while hailing cabs at the Allerton, he struggled as a writer.

"The Wagon" began as an essay. It won the prestigious Virginia Quarterly Review's award for best nonfiction of 2005. Now that the book is about to hit the shelves, Preib worries about how his colleagues will react.

"I don't want to start coming into work and have people talking to me differently," Preib said. "I liked it when my fellow cops thought I was full of crap."

We met the other morning at the Billy Goat Tavern for coffee and Spiros' classic breakfast sandwiches. It was nice to meet a decent guy who didn't take himself too seriously.

But he's serious about his work, as a cop and as a writer. And the city he writes about is a place he hates and loves, a town that brutalizes him and every cop daily. It is also the Chicago that opened his heart.

In the book, you'll find the murdered Macedonian man, and the Russian boxer found dead in a secret drinker's basement hideaway in Uptown. And the baby that Preib and his partner kept on the seat between them, wrapped in a blanket, for that long silent drive to the morgue.

Preib's parents left Chicago when they got married. After his college days, he landed here.

"My heart unfolded in this city. When I came back, I felt like an outsider looking in. Even in the Police Department, I'm not one of these guys who went to St. Whatever and grew up in the parish. I'm sort of the outsider," Preib said.

While working those service jobs, he came to know failure.

"I had tried to make a living as a writer, to write articles and send them to magazines, but it's a horrible way to live. I just got fed up with it, and I'd kind of given up writing when I became a cop. I thought, ‘I'll just be a cop and kind of mess around with writing,' but I had no expectation of publishing. I had written it all off."

But Preib is a writer. He's afflicted with it and couldn't stop. Perhaps becoming a police officer helped with the writing. Cops must maintain control. They can't allow themselves to become distracted. And what Preib struggled with was form. He didn't think he could reach a novel.

"I felt that the novel does not lend itself to the city," he said, acknowledging the great Chicago novels, but also noting that Chicago never truly embraces the novelists.

"I felt Chicago is skeptical of the conceits of novels, skeptical of a lot of allegory and symbolism and excessive craft. Chicago is a very concrete, physical, powerful, direct place. For a long time I felt Chicago was not writeable. It's a place where no one can even agree on what the facts are."

The tribes can't agree on the facts, but that's a function of politics and the pursuit of power.

Preib is now in the blue tribe of the police. And I'm glad I found his book.

"The Wagon" is scheduled to hit the bookstores on May 1. You may purchase advance copies on Amazon.com or order from the University of Chicago Press Web site at: http://www.press.uchicago.edu.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Just wait for the book by Det. Shavedlongcock....

But until that happens, Good luck Officer Martin Preib with the book!

4 women die in South Side crash

Police inspect the wreckage of a single-car crash this morning in the 1000 block of West Garfield Boulevard.

Chicago, IL - Four women died this morning when the car they were traveling in smashed into a tree in the South Side's Englewood neighborhood, Chicago police said.

At about 2 a.m., police and paramedics responded to a crash on the westbound side of Garfield Boulevard just west of Morgan Street, said Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro.

The car was headed west at high speed when it went off the road and struck the tree, he said. Three people were reported dead within an hour after the incident and another person was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious-to-critical condition. The fourth victim, the driver, later died from her injuries.

All four of the car's occupants appeared to be in their 30s, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Quention Curtis. As of just before 10 a.m. the Cook County medical medical examiner's office had not confirmed the identities of the dead, but said three of the dead were believed to be in their 20s, and one in her 30s.

As of about 3:30 a.m., the car, a silver Pontiac sedan with temporary plates, remained on the edge of the grassy area between east and westbound sides of Garfield, its mangled front end and right side against a tree. The car's roof was nowhere to be seen. The engine sat in the grass in front of the car.

The Pontiac appeared to have gone off the road, knocked down a small tree, then struck a larger tree about 30 to 40 feet away. Police cordoned off an area of several hundred square feet that contained various debris and car parts, including a tire that came to rest about 100 feet away from the car.

Police blocked off Garfield from Morgan to Aberdeen Street while the Major Accident Investigation Unit investigated the crash.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Wow, this is a type of accident you usually see teenage boys in who are usually traveling at a tremendous amount of speed. But four women in their 30's? And since the accident happened at 2am, one has to wonder how much alcohol had to play in this incident.

FOP 7 - Website releases the following in regards to contract arbitration.

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010

ARBITRATION UPDATE 03/04/10

The Lodge and the City today completed the hearing portion of the arbitration process. The Lodge, represented at the hearing by our labor attorney Joel D’Alba did an exemplary job in presenting our case before Arbitrator Benn. The issues were difficult at best and almost all were relative to finances. With the conclusion of the Arbitration we now await the Arbitrator’s decision which will be received within 45 days, followed by the receipt of retro money within 120 days after the date the decision is handed down. The delivery of the Lodge’s presentation is one that should leave all that witnessed it feeling optimistic in these trying times.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Basically a lot of words and mumbo jumbo which totals up to nothing said.

Inside word is that Arbitrator Benn is very pissed off at the City of Chicago and Mayor Daley for denying Benn the right to see the actual financial books of the city. The city slapped Benn in the face and told him to "get lost".

The Det. Shavedlongcock prediction?

16.5% over 4 years.
4%
4%
4.25%
4.25%
Possibly a fifth year thrown in at either 4% or 4.25%.

Benn has 45 days to render his decision. I also predict that Benn will come back sooner than 45 days, forcing to city to pay up the retro even sooner.

45 Days would be 18 April 2010. I predict Benn will have a response by Good Friday, 02 April 2010. So Old Man Daley's Easter Sunday is spoiled by the arbitrator's decision. This also forces the city to have the retro checks out by 01 August 2010.


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How about this one - Detroit Public School President admits... he basically can't spell or write. Go figure...

As if Detroit doesn't have enough problems these days, the president of the city's school board offered the shocking admission that he can't pen a coherent sentence.

Otis Mathis, who oversees the academic future of 90,000 public school students, told the Detroit News that he's a "horrible writer" after reports surfaced that he sent a Feb. 29 e-mail to the financial manager of Detroit Public Schools that was rife with spelling, punctuation and usage errors.

"If you saw Sunday's Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason's he gave for closing school to many empty seats," the e-mail read, according to the paper.

Mathis, 56, of Detroit, has had difficulties with language as early as fourth grade, when he was placed in special education classes. His college degree was also held up for more than a decade due to repeatedly failing English proficiency exams required for graduation from Wayne State University, the paper reported.

Some parents are now questioning whether Mathis is fit for his role.

"It's kind of scary to even talk about," Patrick Martin, 49, a Detroit contractor whose 12-year-old son is a student at Noble Middle School, told the paper. "If this is the leader, what does it say about the followers? It explains a lot about why there's so much confusion and infighting with the board and Robert Bobb."

Mathis has also worked as a substitute teacher in Detroit schools, which are ranked among the lowest-achieving metropolitan public school districts in the country. But he told the paper his story is about someone who has managed his limitations.

"Instead of telling them that they can't write and won't be anything, I show that cannot stop you," Mathis told the paper. "If Detroit Public Schools can allow kids to dream, with whatever weakness they have, that's something. ... It's not about what you don't have. It's what you can do."

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

No mater what the urban setting or city, political hacks are everywhere. Otis is head of a school system and he is as dumb as a fucking box of rocks.

When does the public say enough is enough?

Leon's Original Bar-B-Q was ordered closed today by the city - Rodents & Sanitation Problems

South Side barbecue closed by city
Leon's Original Bar-B-Q was ordered closed today by the city because of sanitation problems, including an active mice infestation, authorities said.

Inspectors from Mayor Daley's Dumpster Task Force visited the restaurant at 1200 W. 59th St. in response to complaints about an exterior garbage area, and problems were found both inside and outside the establishment, according to a release from the Department of Streets and Sanitation.

The outside garbage area had no Dumpster service, containers encrusted with grease and a gap in the rear door big enough to allow rodents to enter, the department said.

Inside the building inspectors found evidence of an out of control mice infestation and what they termed "Practically nonexistent housekeeping," according to the release.

In addition to problems with the food preparation area and unsafe food holding temperatures, inspectors found out the restaurant did not have a proper business license, the city said. Even after fixing all the sanitation problems and passing reinspection, the business will have to get proper licensing before reopening.

"The problems that our inspectors encountered at this establishment were extreme, and management will have to make dramatic changes in the way that they operate in order to reopen and stay open," Josie Cruz, deputy commissioner of the Streets and Sanitation Bureau of Rodent Control, said in the release.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Looks like I am back at Harold's Chicken now.... No more Leon's!

Female Chicago aldermen slam Chicago Fire Commissioner Brooks' response to sexual harassment charges

Female aldermen criticized Chicago Fire Commissioner John Brooks on Friday for his “intemperate” and “insensitive” response to an underling’s allegation of sexual harassment.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday on the underling’s accusations that Brooks called her repeatedly, came on to her sexually and targeted her for a layoff when she refused his advances. Office of Compliance chief Anthony Boswell — suspended for allegedly killing a different harassment case — is accused of shelving an investigation into Brooks, too.

Brooks acknowledged placing the calls, but denied propositioning or attempting to punish the woman.

“I have never sexually harassed any woman or man in my life. I do not proposition women. I don’t have to. Women usually proposition me. God has blessed me like that,” Brooks said, before going on vacation to get “out of the way” and let a newly launched investigation take its course.

On Friday, some of the women in the City Council were incensed by Brooks’ remarks.

“It’s totally inappropriate — especially considering the circumstances. At best, he misspoke. At worst, he revealed an unfortunate mindset,” said Ald. Mary Ann Smith (48th).

Ald. Freddrenna Lyle (6th) said that Brooks’ remark was “intemperate” and evidence that he was “being a smart alec.” “It was a poorly-chosen response that he probably did not think through,” she said.

Lyle said she was willing to give Brooks the benefit of the doubt until the investigation that should have been done two years ago is completed. “The investigation should work its way through to see whether or not he has been propositioning women. If he has, he’s going to resign. If not, he may need a how-to-deal-with-the-press class, but he doesn’t need to give up his job,” she said.

The Chicago chapter of the National Organization of Women, meanwhile, said it was “disturbed by the report that Anthony Boswell may have hidden this case and another sexual harassment complaint.”

“If [Boswell] has received improper training, he should be reviewed and if he is unwilling to pursue these cases, he should be replaced,” the group said. “We hope that the mayor and the Fire Department will make the right decision and make sure that these women get the justice that they deserve.”

But Ald. Carrie Austin (34th) took a different stance. She defended Brooks as a “single man” who’s free to pursue any woman he wants and condemned the African-American underling’s charges as “the biggest farce I’ve ever heard.”

“I’m taken aback. Everybody who’s going out the door is African-American: [fired Deputy Water Commissioner] Tom Talley, Anthony Boswell and now John Brooks,” Austin said. “Is there just a target on African-Americans only — and all with bogus charges? This is all trumped-up stuff.”

Brooks showed up at Chicago Fire Department headquarters just long enough Friday to address his exempt staff, then leave on his extended vacation. Some at City Hall questioned whether he would ever return. Chief-of-staff Ray Orozco, a former fire commissioner himself, was described as livid about Brooks’ remarks.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Like I said before, if this was you or I, we would be fired. But polictical hacks are immune to anything but promotions.

Another female teacher who is horny. There is no end to the list lately.

New Hampshire Teacher Charged With Sending Nude Photo to Student
March 5: Booking photo released by the Londonderry, N.H., Police Department shows Melinda Dennehy.

New Hampshire Teacher Charged With Sending Nude Photo to Student
LONDONDERRY, N.H. — A New Hampshire high school English teacher who allegedly e-mailed nude photos of herself to a 15-year-old male student was arrested Friday on a felony charge of indecent exposure and lewdness.

Melinda Dennehy, 41, of Hampstead, turned herself in to Londonderry police and was later released on $10,000 bond. She was placed on administrative leave from her job at Londonderry High School on Wednesday, the day school officials and police were notified about the pictures going around school.

The boy who received the photographs told police Dennehy also sent him text messages offering to have sex, and that she kissed him on the mouth in a classroom at least twice in recent months.

Several male students, including the recipient of the images, were interviewed, and at least one photograph shows Dennehy with her genitals exposed, Londonderry Detective Kristen Gore wrote in an affidavit.

Calls to the home of John and Melinda Dennehy in Hampstead seeking comment were not immediately returned.

The student who received the photos told police he forwarded them to two male friends. He also told police that Dennehy sent him text messages "continuously."

Dennehy used her private AOL account to e-mail the photographs, according to a copy of an e-mail supplied to police, the affidavit said.

Because the boy who received the pictures is under the age of 16, Dennehy faces up to seven years in prison and a $4,000 fine, Londonderry Lt. Chris Gandia said.

It wasn't immediately known if the boy who received the photos was one of Dennehy's students. She has taught sophomore English at the school for three years.

Londonderry School Superintendent Nathan S. Greenberg said Dennehy was placed on paid leave Wednesday, the first day school resumed after the winter break. He said the school is conducting its own investigation and declined to provide further details.

Dennehy is scheduled to appear in Derry District Court on March 23.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

What the hell is going on lately? These female teachers are truly out of control. And many of these teachers are good looking women too. And they are chasing teenage boys. I'm not sure if all these TV shows about middle aged housewives having affairs with young jockers is a possible contributing reason why this is happening or if it is just society in general...

Every police department across this nation is short handed and now this is being proposed - Truly Unreal

California state Legislature is considering establishing a registry — similar to widely used sex offender databases — to track people convicted of felony animal abuse.
California Considers Tracking Animal Abusers Like Sex Offenders
By Judson Berger
- FOXNews.com
The California state Legislature is considering a new proposal to establish a registry of names -- similar to widely used sex offender databases -- to track and make public the identities of people convicted of felony animal abuse.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

I guess we really don't have enough bullshit laws in existence... we need more...

We can't keep violent offenders in jail, everybody is always being released early and all the local police departments are under-staffed - But the elected officials are coming up with this non-sense. This country is fucked!

Court urged to hear cases of alleged cop torture - And "ALLEGED" is right....

Gregory Banks, an alleged victim of police torture, during a news conference at the Northwestern University School of Law. (Bzdak/Tribune)

Lawyers, community activists and religious leaders today urged the Illinois Appellate Court to hear cases from some 20 prisoners who allege they were victims of torture by Chicago police.

The group, calling themselves "Persons Concerned about the Integrity of the Illinois Criminal Justice System," filed a friend-of-the-court brief in an appeal by Stanley Wrice, who contends he was one tortured into confessing to murder. He is serving a life sentence in prison since the early 1980s.

The brief alleged that Wrice was arrested and taken to the basement of Area 2 headquarters in 1982, beaten repeatedly by two officers with a blackjack and flashlight and verbally abused.

The brief contends the torture took place under the command of former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge, who is awaiting trial on federal perjury charges for denying knowledge of the torture decades ago..

Among the group urging the Appellate Court to hear the allegations by as many as 20 others were several men who've since been released from prison after proving they had been tortured under Burge's command.

"Give these men t he hearings they've been denied all these years," said Locke Bowman, legal director of the Roderick MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Let's see here, the now imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan freed how many convicted murderers and also took the rest off death row here in Illinois? And these animals are still coming forward with crocodile tears looking for freedom and a big check to go with it....

Time to start frying these murderers again... Everyday we are seeing murders and other violent crimes being committed by these repeat offenders. Enough is enough, time to get tough!

Republican strategist Karl Rove's new book that portrays Obama as a 'nasty and condescending' hypocrite

You could call them Rove-elations, Republican strategist Karl Rove's new book that portrays Obama as a 'nasty and condescending' hypocrite who 'plays fast and loose with the facts' — Ouch!
New Book Says Obama E-Mailed Jarrett: 'Rove Hates Me'
According to a new book by Republican strategist Karl Rove, Barack Obama once confided to adviser Valerie Jarrett, “Rove hates me.”

“Rove hates me,” Barack Obama once confided to adviser Valerie Jarrett, according to a new book by Republican strategist Karl Rove that portrays the president as a “nasty and condescending” hypocrite who “plays fast and loose with the facts.”

Rove, who was the top political strategist to former President George W. Bush, uses his memoir, “Courage and Consequence,” to settle some scores with Obama, including a shot that Obama once took at Rove in his own memoir, “The Audacity of Hope.” Specifically, Obama accused Rove and fellow conservatives Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist in the 2006 book of declaring, “We are a Christian nation.”

“I certainly don’t believe and have never said, ‘We are a Christian nation,’” Rove insisted in “Courage,” which is scheduled for publication next week. “What happened to the Jews? The Muslims? The Hindus? The Buddhists? The skeptics and nonbelievers?”

Rove, now a Fox News contributor, said he confronted Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois, about the quotation during a chance encounter in the White House cafeteria. According to Rove, Obama initially denied attributing the quote to Rove, who then showed Obama the page in question.

“He looked surprised and began insisting he really wasn’t saying what he had quoted me as saying,” Rove wrote in “Courage,” which will be released Tuesday. “After a few moments, the conversation drew to an awkward and unsatisfactory conclusion; he was unwilling to acknowledge the mistake or apologize. It seemed to me he didn’t much care that he had attributed to me something I had never said and found offensive.”

Later, at the 2008 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Rove and Jarrett were guests at the table of Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham.

“Jarrett e-mailed Obama on her BlackBerry to let him know she was breaking bread with Satan himself,” Rove recalled. “He e-mailed her back and Jarrett made the mistake of showing Jon and me his reply, which was ‘Rove hates me.’ I knew Senator Obama was alluding to our run-in over the passage in his book. I asked Jarrett to tell him I wasn’t in the habit of hating people.”

This was not the only score Rove settled with Obama.

“Though we didn’t discuss it in our West Wing encounter, Obama also went on in his book to describe me and other conservatives as ‘eerily reminiscent of some of the New Left’s leaders during the sixties,’ who ‘viewed politics as a contest not just between competing policy visions, but between good and evil,’” Rove wrote.

“Now, that’s rich, isn’t it?” he marveled. “The last time I checked, I hadn’t bombed any government buildings (like, say, Obama’s great friend William Ayers); or asked that God ‘damn’ America (like, say, Obama’s former pastor and close friend Jeremiah Wright); or declared that I was proud of my country for the first time in my life only when I was in my forties (like, say, Obama’s wife, Michelle).”

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

I think Obama should be happy with this new book. It left out Barack Obama's crack pipe addiction, Barack Obama's gay sexual encounters and finally that Barack Obama wasn't even born in this country.

Fire & Police Bosses who can't seem to keep their dicks in their pants are PROMOTED NOT DEMOTED - You or I would be fired

Exclusive: City sex harassment cover-up?

SECOND SEXUAL HARASSMENT INCIDENT TO BE COVERED UP BY THE CITY OFFICE OF COMPLIANCE CHIEF ANTHONY BOSWELL - WHO IS ALREADY ON SUSPENSION

Sexual harassment accusations against Chicago Fire Commissioner John Brooks allegedly were shelved by city Office of Compliance chief Anthony Boswell, who was suspended last month by Mayor Daley for supposedly killing another harassment case. Brooks intends to announce today that he will take several weeks of vacation time "to stay out of the way" and let the Office of Compliance investigate without any appearance of interference, said Larry Langford, spokesman for the Fire Department.Fire Commissioner John Brooks denies any impropriety in the face of a sexual harassment complaint that has been filed against him.


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Detective Shavedlongcock:

It truly is amazing to me the number of police and fire department bosses who will throw a six figure salary and nice pension down the drain due to their inability to not to screw every skank they meet. Half of these women are people who are usually pressured into sex by one of these bosses and the other half are former cop/fire groupies who have came onto the job looking to either make a quick lawsuit buck or to screw their way into a promotion or easy gig.

You have to use your position to get laid, then you should be FIRED and not DEMOTED. But in the usual and typical Chicago, You keep getting promoted. Unreal.

Hispanic police promotions come amid community pressure

D/C Roberto ZAVALA promoted to Chief of Patrol North

Cmdr John ESCALANTE promoted to D/C Area 5

Lt. Linda FLORES promoted to Commander, 014th District

Lt. Carlos VELEZ promoted to Commander, 025th District

"Members of the Hispanic clergy announced plans to protest at City Hall next week and call for Weis' resignation because of the failure to diversify the department."Hispanic church leaders, seizing on the recent departure of a police commander to highlight the few Latinos at the top of the department, are stepping up pressure on Supt. Jody Weis to deal with the long-standing problem.

The sudden retirement of Grand Central District Commander Robert Lopez has upset religious leaders and resurrected criticisms that the department has an abysmal record of promoting Hispanics to the department's highest levels.

Members of the clergy announced plans to protest at City Hall next week and call for Weis' resignation because of the failure to diversify the department.

"You want our help. You want us to come out and march,'' said the Rev. Wilfredo De Jesus, pastor of New Life Covenant Church. "They want us to talk to our communities. They want information. How are we supposed to partner?"

The department's own statistics back up the community's concerns. Two assistant superintendents, the highest-ranking post under Weis, are an African-American man and Hispanic woman, but the command positions beneath them are heavily staffed by whites, including all four deputy superintendents. Seven Hispanics number among those 87 command positions.

Thursday night Weis announced four promotions to top spots -- all Hispanic. The department insisted the timing had nothing to do with the controversy.

Department officials defended Weis' record of promoting Hispanics. In 2009 no Hispanics were promoted based on test scores to any of 20 spots that opened up for lieutenant. But of six positions set aside for promotions based on merit, two went to Hispanics, officials said.

Department officials acknowledge that it's difficult to find minorities to promote to high command positions because of the low number of Hispanic lieutenants and captains,. Officials said there have been several moves to address that.

"We've done a little better at the lower levels," said Deputy Supt. Theodore O'Keefe. "Now it is a matter of trying to cultivate their skills and abilities so they can aspire to positions of leadership.''

The department is designing a course to help officers prepare for promotional exams. It now posts openings in task forces and specialized units and now accepts applications when a command spot opens, officials said.

Still, the change is coming too slowly, said Ald. George Cardenas, 12th. "There is a tremendous level of anxiety in the Hispanic community," he said.

In a telephone interview, Lopez said he was told last week he was demoted from district commander to the rank of lieutenant. He said he resigned rather than take a position in another district.

Department officials denied that Lopez was demoted or pushed out, insisting he could have stayed on as the Grand Central District commander. But the department said he had a serious crime problem to address and that the superintendent was demanding a response.

Lopez said he wasn't the only district to post an increase in violent crime last year and didn't get enough support from headquarters.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Word on the street is Mayor Daley will cater to what ever the Hispanic groups will ask for. Daley is already swearing in three new Police Deputy Superintendents:

2 Pentagon police officers shot at subway station - Gunman also wounded & in custody

The Offender Is Dead - From Gunshot Wounds


WASHINGTON (AP) — A gunman opened fire at the teeming subway entrance to Pentagon complex Thursday evening, wounding two military police officers before being shot, a spokesman said.

Authorities said all three were taken to a hospital. Chris Layman, a spokesman for the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, said the two officers and gunman were not thought to have life-threatening injuries although the suspect's wounds were more serious.

The suspect walked up to the entrance at 6:40 p.m. and opened fire. He hit two officers. The officers fired back, and the suspect was struck.

The rush-hour assault happened outside a massively fortified building that nevertheless is near busy crowds of transit riders.

The subway station is immediately adjacent to the Pentagon building. Since a redesign following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon, riders can no longer disembark directly into the building. Riders take a long escalator ride to the surface from the underground station, then pass through a security check outside the doors of the building, where further security awaits.

In the immediate aftermath, all Pentagon entrances were secured, then all were reopened except one from the subway, said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman.

A Pentagon official working late in the building said people inside first heard of the shooting on television. They were later told the building was locked down and to stay in place. The huge five-sided building is crisscrossed by 10 main corridors.

Then at around 7:30 p.m., they heard an announcement on the public address system that they could leave through Corridor 3 — one widely used to get access to one of the parking lots.

"We really don't know anything, just that we can leave now through that corridor," one official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak about the incident.
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Breaking News - More to come.....

(Bumped - New Posts Below) Sheriff Tom Dart announces 2 buildings at Cook County Jail being mothballed

CLICKING ON ANY IMAGE WILL DISPLAY THE IMAGE FULL SIZEPLANS ARE ALREADY IN THE WORKS FOR THE USE OF THESE UNOCCUPIED BUILDINGS


Two buildings at the Cook County Jail are being closed permanently because of a declining inmate population, Sheriff Tom Dart said today.

A 600-bed unit already has been shuttered and a 300-bed building will be next month. The changes mean the jail no longer will be the largest single-site jail in the nation.

In 2002, the average daily population at the jail exceeded 11,000, with many prisoners forced to sleep on the floor or rotate time in bunks, Dart said. Today, the jail houses about 8,600 inmates.

Approximately 19 percent fewer inmates were booked into the jail last year compared to 2004.

The drop in the number of prisoners has been attributed to a decrease in crime, fewer arrests and efforts to speed felony trials.

The closures, which Dart said could save the county as much as $15 million a year, will necessitate shifting some inmates around the 96-acre complex at 2700 S. California Ave., officials said.

Dart said that about 175 corrections officer who work at the two buildings will be reassigned. He said he hoped the move would count toward the staffing requirements ordered last year by U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall, who is overseeing a longstanding lawsuit over crowding at the West Side jail. Kendall had ordered Dart to hire 210 new corrections officers and fill nearly 400 vacant positions.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Poor Tom Dart, he was out of the news for 6 days and just couldn't allow the 7th day to pass.... Without hitting the media!

Mayor Daley to Teamsters - You strike, we just hire new drivers, 50,000 people are applying for jobs

Mayor Daley dismisses talk of a Teamsters truck drivers strike
'There'd be 50,000 people applying for those jobs,' he says
Mayor Daley today shook off a 3-to-1 strike-authorization vote by city of Chicago truck drivers and vowed to keep O’Hare and Midway Airports open even if the drivers walk off the job.

“You know what? There’d be 50,000 people applying for these jobs,” Daley said. “I mean, there’s so many people out of work. If you were ever to open employment, there’d be 50,000. These are good-paying jobs. Everybody would like to not work and get two hours’ pay.

“I don’t know how they can strike," the mayor said. "My argument is that, if there’s no work to be done and they’re getting two hours’ pay, they should be very thankful to taxpayers that they’re getting two hours’ pay.”

For decades, roughly 300 “pool motor truck drivers” hired for the snow season at O’Hare and Midway have been guaranteed eight-hour shifts.

When runways were clear and no snow was forecast, they were assigned to training or other odd jobs, including towing, repairing and washing vehicles and driving tradespeople around the airport.

Since Dec. 15, dozens of pool drivers have been sent home when there is no snow to remove and none forecast.

The two-hour workday at O’Hare and Midway is just one of many union beefs that triggered the strike-authorization vote. The union also has accused the city of a “wholesale repudiation” of its contract.

On Thursday, Daley again highlighted the airport issue because it has the potential to strike a raw nerve with taxpayers.

“In good times, they would hire the Teamsters … and pay ’em [for] eight hours” whether or not there was snow to be removed, Daley said. “But this is such an economic crisis that you can’t sit there and not do work and be paid for eight hours … You can’t plow if there’s no snow and you can’t put salt down. So, appropriately then, after two hours, you have ’em go home. Usuually, they’d be laid off for four months completely.”

Although the Teamsters have authorized a strike, no date has been set. The vote merely empowers union leaders to pull the trigger whenever they see fit.

City Hall maintains that the Teamsters’ contract includes a no-strike clause that allows the city to discharge those who walk off the job while taking civil action against their union. A strike by 2,000 truck drivers could also affect garbage collection and snow removal on Chicago streets.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

This asswipe of a Mayor really thinks he is the fucking king. Mayor Daley has made each of his family members millionaires 10 times over, gave political friends millions in over priced city contracts and is treated like a fricken king.

But don't let those Teamsters ever even think about striking for a contract they want... It's not what they want, it's what King Richard wants and not only wants but also what he would like to take away from these union members...

I say I hope the Teamsters stick it up Mayor Daley ass! Farther than anything else he has had stuck up that loose ass!

Parking ticket target sues police officers, city in Federal Court

An Orland Park man who received two dozen unwarranted parking tickets has sued the city of Chicago and two police officers in federal court.

The lawsuit, filed by Mark Geinosky, alleges police officers Kenneth Wilkerson and Steven Sabatino repeatedly issued Geinosky false parking tickets, and that their conduct was an "egregious arbitrary abuse of government power that shocks the conscience."

Geinosky, whose story has been featured repeatedly in the What's Your Problem? column, asks for compensatory and punitive damages.

Chicago Police department spokesman Roderick Drew had no comment on the lawsuit, which was filed late Wednesday. Messages left for Wilkerson and Sabatino through Drew were not immediately returned. Jennifer Hoyle, a spokeswoman for the city's Law Department, declined comment.

"We haven't seen or been served with the complaint yet, so I can't comment on the allegations at this time," she said.

The lawsuit claims the parking tickets were issued "based on a conspiracy between the Chicago Police and the plaintiff's ex-wife, who wanted to injure and get vengeance against plaintiff."

Sharon Geinosky told the Problem Solver she has nothing to do with the parking tickets and was surprised to hear she had been mentioned in the lawsuit.

"I'm as perplexed as anyone about this," she said about the parking tickets. "He's saying I'm behind it which is crazy. I have nothing to do with it. I'd like to have my name cleared for the sake of my kids."

The suit says the tickets began arriving shortly after Mark and Sharon Geinosky separated in Oct. 7, 2007. Some of the tickets were written while Sharon Geinosky had possession of the couple's sport utility vehicle, but others were issued after she returned the Toyota to Geinosky, the suit says.

Sharon Geinosky said she was interviewed by an investigator with the police department about the tickets.

"I don't know any of those officers," she said. "I really appreciate you staying on top of it because I want to know what happened too."

Four of the two dozen tickets were written after Mark Geinosky sold the vehicle, the filing claims.

Geinosky says he complained repeatedly to the officers' supervisor and to the police department's Internal Affairs Division, but nothing was done. In September 2008, the city's Independent Police Review Authority opened a file, then transferred the case to internal affairs. Internal affairs closed the case less than a month later, the lawsuit says.

The Problem Solver first wrote about Geinosky in a Feb. 24, 2009 story. The lawsuit says internal affairs re-opened the case shortly after the Problem Solver began making inquiries about the case.

Drew said Thursday the internal investigation is in its final stages.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE ACTUAL LAWSUIT

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

I kind of figured the resurfacing of this incident in the media last week was the prelude to a lawsuit... They were bucking the city to see their reaction and to prime the pump of litigation.