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Aaaahahahaha and now Eric Adams has appointed him to be the interim chair of the entire board.
An Adams appointee to the CCRB has spent the last months arguing that we should threaten people with perjury so fewer people lodge complaints against cops and last month he helped overturn 91 allegations where investigators had found evidence of police misconduct: hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-flip-ra...
This Eric Adams Appointee and NY Post Veteran Is Upending Police Oversight
Civilian Complaint Review Board investigators found evidence of 190 acts of police misconduct in recent cases. Board members made half of them disappear.
hellgatenyc.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Aaaahahahaha and now Eric Adams has appointed him to be the interim chair of the entire board.
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“O’Neill Burke’s policy fails to acknowledge the fact that CPD has not earned the benefit of the doubt. Instead of taking away scrutiny, the state’s attorney should be increasing it.”
I have a letter in the S-T today about SA Burke's troubling decisions re felony review chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t...
Police need more scrutiny in gun cases, not less
Decision to expand the expedited felony review pilot program citywide in low-level gun cases is deeply troubling. Also, Chicago Public Library funding, Gaza, 30 N. LaSalle Street building, city traffi...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“O’Neill Burke’s policy fails to acknowledge the fact that CPD has not earned the benefit of the doubt. Instead of taking away scrutiny, the state’s attorney should be increasing it.”
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“we asked a former cop who got sloshed on liquor then fell asleep behind the wheel about how police should act” is exactly what i expected from the chicago tribune
Interviewing Eddie Johnson or Garry McCarthy about proper law enforcement tactics is inexcusable.
"What does this inveterate liar think of Greg Bovino" is actually not newsworthy
"What does this inveterate liar think of Greg Bovino" is actually not newsworthy
December 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“we asked a former cop who got sloshed on liquor then fell asleep behind the wheel about how police should act” is exactly what i expected from the chicago tribune
“FIFA Peace Prize” is such an incredible oxymoron
December 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“FIFA Peace Prize” is such an incredible oxymoron
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The amount of “progressives” who are out here defending an increase to the Chicago Police Budget that brings it to OVER HALF of our corporate fund is WILD.
What timeline are we living in?
Did the past # of years fighting to reimagine public safety and of more accountability just disappear?
What timeline are we living in?
Did the past # of years fighting to reimagine public safety and of more accountability just disappear?
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The amount of “progressives” who are out here defending an increase to the Chicago Police Budget that brings it to OVER HALF of our corporate fund is WILD.
What timeline are we living in?
Did the past # of years fighting to reimagine public safety and of more accountability just disappear?
What timeline are we living in?
Did the past # of years fighting to reimagine public safety and of more accountability just disappear?
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Anyone in city government who makes noises about "efficiencies" or "savings" while simultaneously pledging no reductions in CPD spending is either kidding themselves or kidding you.
You cannot meaningfully shrink a budget without touching its largest operating expenses and debt drivers.
You cannot meaningfully shrink a budget without touching its largest operating expenses and debt drivers.
November 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Anyone in city government who makes noises about "efficiencies" or "savings" while simultaneously pledging no reductions in CPD spending is either kidding themselves or kidding you.
You cannot meaningfully shrink a budget without touching its largest operating expenses and debt drivers.
You cannot meaningfully shrink a budget without touching its largest operating expenses and debt drivers.
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And to be clear, the mayor's 2026 proposal is not just a "no police cuts" budget -- it's a budget in which CPD (already the city's most expensive dept. by far) received a larger year-over-year net increase of non-grant funds than any other dept.
Larger than most other departments' entire budgets!
Larger than most other departments' entire budgets!
November 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
And to be clear, the mayor's 2026 proposal is not just a "no police cuts" budget -- it's a budget in which CPD (already the city's most expensive dept. by far) received a larger year-over-year net increase of non-grant funds than any other dept.
Larger than most other departments' entire budgets!
Larger than most other departments' entire budgets!
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Chicagoans are paying about $40 apiece just for lawsuits tied to disgraced former cop Reynaldo Guevara Jr.
So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident
So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident
really good comparison here. can someone calculate what Chicago residents are paying for CPD settlements?
Kansas City residents are paying out the equivalent of $50 each for Kansas City Police settlements just for comparisons.
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Chicagoans are paying about $40 apiece just for lawsuits tied to disgraced former cop Reynaldo Guevara Jr.
So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident
So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident
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Chicagoans will pay $76 per person this year for police misconduct settlements.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Chicagoans will pay $76 per person this year for police misconduct settlements.
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The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
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The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.
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This is what Snelling said two years ago.
Every year, the superintendent pinky swears that this time for reals, he’s going to let Charlie kick the football.
Every year, the superintendent pinky swears that this time for reals, he’s going to let Charlie kick the football.
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is what Snelling said two years ago.
Every year, the superintendent pinky swears that this time for reals, he’s going to let Charlie kick the football.
Every year, the superintendent pinky swears that this time for reals, he’s going to let Charlie kick the football.
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A police stop is enough to make someone less likely to vote, recent research has found. "Voting is a reflection of our belief that we’re part of the system, that our voice matters."
A Police Stop Is Enough to Make Someone Less Likely to Vote
New research shows how the communities that are most heavily policed are pushed away from politics and from having a say in changing policy.
boltsmag.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A police stop is enough to make someone less likely to vote, recent research has found. "Voting is a reflection of our belief that we’re part of the system, that our voice matters."
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Until people get into tearing down the strength of police unions — this is what you’ll always get. No matter who is at the top.
Moments ago, feds shove protesters out of the way as more NYPD officers arrive on scene. reporting for @thecity.nyc
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Until people get into tearing down the strength of police unions — this is what you’ll always get. No matter who is at the top.
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Thing is we’ve built a very large zone of exception around “crime” and as long as people claim they are taking action to fight “crime” they’re going to receive deference.
FFS no, NYT, they are not. See, instead: https://presswatchers.org/2025/08/the-elite-media-still-falls-for-trumps-lies/
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Thing is we’ve built a very large zone of exception around “crime” and as long as people claim they are taking action to fight “crime” they’re going to receive deference.
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-IL Dems caved to RW law and order rhetoric and built a surveillance state using ALPRs
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November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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And therapy isn’t magic. Please stop telling men to go to therapy who have no intention of making any changes and just want another woman to validate them
Children are not therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
And therapy isn’t magic. Please stop telling men to go to therapy who have no intention of making any changes and just want another woman to validate them
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But wait there's more: the budget sets aside $82.5 million for future lawsuits.
$82.5M set aside + $283.3M loan + $52M or more in inteterest.
Cop Misconduct has blown $417.8 million dollar hole in the budget.
news.wttw.com/2025/10/23/j...
$82.5M set aside + $283.3M loan + $52M or more in inteterest.
Cop Misconduct has blown $417.8 million dollar hole in the budget.
news.wttw.com/2025/10/23/j...
Johnson’s 2026 Budget Sets Aside Just $82.5M to Resolve Police Misconduct Lawsuits, Even Though Chicago Has Already Spent $90M
Chicago taxpayers have spent at least $267 million to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct so far this year, according to an analysis of city data by ...
news.wttw.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
But wait there's more: the budget sets aside $82.5 million for future lawsuits.
$82.5M set aside + $283.3M loan + $52M or more in inteterest.
Cop Misconduct has blown $417.8 million dollar hole in the budget.
news.wttw.com/2025/10/23/j...
$82.5M set aside + $283.3M loan + $52M or more in inteterest.
Cop Misconduct has blown $417.8 million dollar hole in the budget.
news.wttw.com/2025/10/23/j...
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I did not realize "the working people" means a police deparement that was exposed as regularly spending beyond this budget and has been responsible for TWO massive wrongful conviction payouts that equal 2 to 3 years of the Library budget.
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Johnson tries to reframe the debate over the budget after suffering a very public defeat at the hands of the Finance Committee:
"It's working people or its the ultra rich. That's it."
"It's working people or its the ultra rich. That's it."
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I did not realize "the working people" means a police deparement that was exposed as regularly spending beyond this budget and has been responsible for TWO massive wrongful conviction payouts that equal 2 to 3 years of the Library budget.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the progressive mayor: COPS OVER LIBRARIES.
Johnson vows to veto any budget that includes a property tax increase or makes cuts to the proposed $2.1 billion for the Chicago Police Department.
CONTEXT: No one has seriously proposed either.
Days until the Dec. 30 deadline for the City Council to pass a budget: 43
CONTEXT: No one has seriously proposed either.
Days until the Dec. 30 deadline for the City Council to pass a budget: 43
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, the progressive mayor: COPS OVER LIBRARIES.
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apply this to the new details about patrick beverley assaulting his sister, and draymond green's strange and misogynist "you can't keep calling me a woman" outburst the other night
"For the very few men who benefit from these corporate pyramid schemes, it is unthinkable that the way they treat women should be indicative of anything important about them....
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
apply this to the new details about patrick beverley assaulting his sister, and draymond green's strange and misogynist "you can't keep calling me a woman" outburst the other night
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Of course Rahm said this.
We all know the hill that Rahm Emanuel WAS willing to die on was the covering up the murder of a black teenager by Chicago Police.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...
We all know the hill that Rahm Emanuel WAS willing to die on was the covering up the murder of a black teenager by Chicago Police.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Of course Rahm said this.
We all know the hill that Rahm Emanuel WAS willing to die on was the covering up the murder of a black teenager by Chicago Police.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...
We all know the hill that Rahm Emanuel WAS willing to die on was the covering up the murder of a black teenager by Chicago Police.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...
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New York's cops are so afraid of a serious progressive mayor that they want to retire and move to red states
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
New York's cops are so afraid of a serious progressive mayor that they want to retire and move to red states
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Call @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office and say:
NO STATE TROOPS AT BROADVIEW
& STOP WORKING WITH ICE
(312) 814-2121
whyispritzkerprotectingice.com
NO STATE TROOPS AT BROADVIEW
& STOP WORKING WITH ICE
(312) 814-2121
whyispritzkerprotectingice.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Call @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office and say:
NO STATE TROOPS AT BROADVIEW
& STOP WORKING WITH ICE
(312) 814-2121
whyispritzkerprotectingice.com
NO STATE TROOPS AT BROADVIEW
& STOP WORKING WITH ICE
(312) 814-2121
whyispritzkerprotectingice.com
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Just horrific. These are crimes.
And let’s be clear — this is by design. They’ve been forthright about that. The aim is to make it migrants suffer so much that they give up their due process rights and leave voluntarily.
And let’s be clear — this is by design. They’ve been forthright about that. The aim is to make it migrants suffer so much that they give up their due process rights and leave voluntarily.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just horrific. These are crimes.
And let’s be clear — this is by design. They’ve been forthright about that. The aim is to make it migrants suffer so much that they give up their due process rights and leave voluntarily.
And let’s be clear — this is by design. They’ve been forthright about that. The aim is to make it migrants suffer so much that they give up their due process rights and leave voluntarily.