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NEW: Videos show four chicago cops unlawfully seizing guns, then filing false reports. In at least one encounter they apparently steal drugs and cash. In another, they're so focused on seizing property they let a wanted murderer slip through their fingers.
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Maybe the trains should run before we talk about subsidizing billionaire projects.
wait lmfao it is SO MUCH WORSE THAN I THOUGHT
that is a FORTY SEVEN MINUTE GAP
we are so cooked
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145 PM TUE: Hope to quantify this with the
@ILEPA
but this might be some of, if not the worst, air quality we've ever seen. A level of 300+ moves us to hazardous category.
#WildfireSmoke
#pollution
#Chicago
@WGNNews
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After almost no rain for like a month, it turns out all we needed was NASCAR week 😆
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Completely insane map.
NEW: A leaked document obtained by WIRED details the locations of tens of thousands of ShotSpotter microphones embedded in communities around the planet.
W/
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Can confirm. This entire area is just gone. Destroyed. Like all of Lakeview was on that sub.
Hundreds of teens takeover Lakeview, destroying neighborhood
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The other 49 should do this, not remove it in Illinois.
Illinois is the only state in the nation that requires drivers 75 and older to retake a driving test as a condition of renewing their driver’s license. New legislation from Rep. Jeff Keicher would end this practice.
#twill
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Now this is an authentic Chicago driving experience.
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The Tribune reports Chicago police officer Michael Vitellaro will stand trial on Monday. Vitellaro faces aggravated battery & official misconduct charges after he falsely accused a 14-year old of stealing his son's bike & pinned him to the ground.
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Here's a case where ShotSpotter worked.
A Chicago cop, startled by a cat, accidentally fired his weapon. The officer failed to notify OEMC he'd fired his gun, but ShotSpotter detected it, forcing the cop to own up to it.
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Would love to know what coordination happened here to ensure Biden didn't get ghosted and have a 25 min wait.
NOW: Learning from CTA sources that President Biden boarded an el train immediately after his midday remarks.
@cbschicago
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They still haven't caught the shooter who killed at least six and wounded at least 26 others just trying to enjoy a parade and GOP candidate for Governor Darren Bailey already wants to "move on."
With all due respect, fuck this guy.
In the immediate aftermath of a deadly mass shooting while the shooter is at large, ILGOP nominee for Governor Darren Bailey goes on Facebook to offer prayers for families & police, voices frustrations about a canceled parade, and then says, “Let’s move on and celebrate freedom.”
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Before you celebrate, we'd just caution everyone we still don't know how many outstanding votes there are in Palos Heights.
Brandon's lead continues to grow - now up to 7,179
Folks...
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The woman in that viral video says she “looked up to see Chicago police officers drive by, not stopping to help.”
Another woman nearby says when police drove around her “I knew then no one was coming to help,” & she acted to get them to safety.
Police do not keep us safe.
Downtown beating witness: 'They were going to kill that young man'
@DanaRebikWGN
has more.
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Why are police always permitted to act out of fear, but no one else is? We will never know what Dexter Reed was thinking, but he wasn't doing anything wrong when an SUV with 5 people cut him off, started screaming, tried to open his car door & pointed guns at him within seconds.
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Chicago: No matter what happens today, we'll always have this.
A Ja’Mal Green campaign bus is stuck in a circular drive at Truman College.
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BREAKING: COPA has confirmed Chicago police, while responding to a ShotSpotter alert, fired shots at a child playing with fireworks in his driveway.
Fortunately the child was not hit.
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NEW: We can confirm CPD Sgt. Michael Vitellaro is the officer who pinned a 14-year old outside of a Starbucks in Park Ridge earlier this month.
He was first identified by
@GREGTHESAGE
with ECCSC. We were able to independently confirm his identity with CPD.
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Candidate Brandon Johnson would like a word with Mayor Brandon Johnson.
When he was running for mayor, Johnson was adamant and clear that keeping the Bears shouldn’t come with a multibillion dollar bill for taxpayers.
This week Johnson says his support is “not at all” inconsistent with his progressive platform or roots:
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Really need a full investigation of how the city & police handled this situation over recent months.
This guy built a sniper perch in plain view, was reportedly known to fire off gunshots, flying a swastika flag across from a high school and… nothing.
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If ShotSpotter is truly about saving lives, and it works, then this would imply ShotSpotter's CEO is cruelly withholding a life-saving technology out of spite.
But it's never been about that. It's always been profiteering of off fear & propaganda & playing political games.
The mayor tries a delayed cancellation of ShotSpotter in seven months.
ShotSpotter will cancel Chicago in 48 hours.
Gang bangers & criminals rejoice the Mayor’s bluff being called.
#ElectionsHaveConsequences
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“make sure you and your family have a plan.”
What the fuck kind of plan are you supposed to have to survive going out bowling or to dinner?
America's latest mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine is the latest reason safety experts say you should make sure you and your family have a plan.
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Why it's Brandon Johnson's fault that it's snowing... 1/56
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🤯🤯🤯
Instead, the officer, who was not identified in a report released Friday by Inspector General Deborah Witzburg in keeping with the city’s rules, was suspended for 120 days.
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Lightfoot's team negotiated to get us 0% of TV revenue.
✔️Most-watched NASCAR Cup Series race on NBC in six years
✔️Most-watched NASCAR Cup Series race on any network since Daytona 500
✔️Projected to be the most-watched sporting event of the weekend
✔️Most-streamed NASCAR Cup Series race in NBC Sports history
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Group of wilding dads leaves Lincoln Square destroyed
The effort to halt fireworks at Winnemac Park this year is proving effective!
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Paul Vallas is apparently against teaching anything close to a true version of American history, while mislabeling it “critical race theory.”
These are 100% right-wing talking points, given in an interview with a former Illinois Policy Institute VP.
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This was always the predictable outcome. The perfect combo of spending a ton on police OT & a massive police presence that solved no problems while making things worse.
Despite the city closing the Downtown roads hours ago, Wacker Drive and LaSalle Street are jammed with Mexican Independence Day caravan revelry.
@BlockClubCHI
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Net gain for IL
Today is my wife and daughter's last day as Illinoisians.
As for me, I'll be leaving Illinois on Saturday - for good.
I will not raise my two daughters in Illinois.
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Landlords raising rents to cover the $ they spent defeating BCH.
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BREAKING: A long awaited study on the effectiveness of ShotSpotter in Chicago has found it has had no effect on fatal or non-fatal shootings.
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@chicagosmayor
's press team has stopped responding to our requests for an exit interview, continuing Lightfoot's media freeze-out two months after she lost reelection.
She remains mayor of the nation's 3rd-largest city for another 18 days.
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Reminder that Dorval Carter gets a salary of $376,065 for this.
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VIDEO: We have the BWC video of a CPD officer accidentally firing his gun when a cat jumped out. 🐈⬛🔫😆
Here's a case where ShotSpotter worked.
A Chicago cop, startled by a cat, accidentally fired his weapon. The officer failed to notify OEMC he'd fired his gun, but ShotSpotter detected it, forcing the cop to own up to it.
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Vallas was "shocked" by the "abhorrent and vile rhetoric" liked by his own Twitter account.
Vallas was shocked when he learned his pals at Awake IL were anti-LGBTQ groomer-panic nuts.
Vallas was shocked to learn the FOP supports right-wing extremists. 🤨
Paul Vallas’ Twitter account liked offensive, racist posts. He denies doing it himself and denounces ‘abhorrent’ views.
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All of these can be true: The NASCAR race was fun to watch, it disrupted parks / museums, it showed we can close streets to cars and it's OK, there should have been more transparency about the deal & we need an honest accounting of the costs & benefits to the city.
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🧵Does Paul Vallas know what is going on around him? Recently he has claimed to be unaware that he's surrounded himself by right-wing extremists while his social media likes and posts right-wing points.
But Vallas has a long history of lax oversight & lack of accountability.
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Dude. So this whole thing was made up by Lopez? Why are we only seeing this footage today?
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It's pretty clear why COPA does not believe officers' story that they pulled over Dexter Reed for a seatbelt violation. This is zoomed in/captioned POD footage showing them making the stop.
CPD rounded the corner, immediately drove around another car, and cut off Reed's SUV.
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Opinion: We shouldn't let a guy who mocks the death of a 13 year-old by police and frequently advocates for the extrajudicial imprisonment of parents for the alleged actions of their children to be the arbiter of what elected officials should or shouldn't say.
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BREAKING: CPD Detective Shawn Popow has been relieved of his police powers, per CPD.
Our story with our friends at
@JinxPress
last week exposed a long history of bigoted & racist posts from the detective working in the South Side’s Area 1.
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Known Proud Boys work on the force.
Known Oath Keepers work on the force.
Known officers who participate in anti-LGBTQ "gr**mer panic" rhetoric work on the force.
But it will not be tolerated.
The City of Chicago does not and will not tolerate any form of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric or behavior, ever. We are an inclusive city, and we must ensure that all of our residents are treated with dignity and respect. 🧵
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Officer died. Police apprehended no one. Another ShotSpotter success story.
For all those imbeciles wanting to remove ShotSpotter from our communities, consider this: police were alerted to the fallen officer FIVE MINUTES before anyone called 911. That extra time is invaluable and you blissfully choose to ignore that fact.
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"Lock up parents who didn't commit crimes" season has officially started in Chicago.
This was Chicago last night. Save the excuses & rationalization. Unless you want this to be the norm in Chicago, hold them & their parents accountable.
Now!
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Imagine paying $10 million to just wake-up in Naperville.
A seven-bedroom mansion in Naperville that is on the market for $10.5 million went under contract this week. If the 21,709-square-foot mansion sells for more than $8.1 million, it will be the highest recorded sale price for a home in DuPage County history.
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In a new motion filed yesterday in Vallas' lawsuit against a campaign consultant, we learn that Vallas—who repeatedly touted his decades of budgetary expertise—needs the money back because other campaign checks are now bouncing.
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West Town residents sue the city to stop them from using an empty warehouse to provide shelter for migrants.
That’s 200 families with small children who may spend more nights out in the cold thanks to NIMBYism.
West Town residents sue Chicago over possible migrant shelter in industrial building
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Per WGN: Cop party at the HOB last night where this pedestrian was killed by an off-duty cop. If the driver was at the party and if it turns out a blood alcohol test wasn't conducted...
Off-duty cop killed a woman last night.
The cop "was driving an Infiniti SUV in the 300 block of N State around 12:30 am Thursday. She told officers she dropped her phone and took her eyes off the road to grab it."
Cops didn't conduct a sobriety test.
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The guys in this Fox story complaining Vallas’ checks didn’t clear are the same guys out a week ago holding pressers with Bill Morton urging for earlier teen curfews downtown.
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You went to prison for withholding millions in state funding from a hospital treating sick children, trying to extort a $50k donation from the CEO in exchange.
Will DOJ criminalize the back room wheeling & dealing that’s begun to fill Feinstein’s vacant seat? I got 14 years for merely talking after Obama sent an emissary to discuss possible political deals. He did 8 years in the White House while I did 8 years in the Big House.…
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Listening to the full interview, Paul Vallas continues and is even worse. 🤯
Paul Vallas is apparently against teaching anything close to a true version of American history, while mislabeling it “critical race theory.”
These are 100% right-wing talking points, given in an interview with a former Illinois Policy Institute VP.
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CPD Sergeant Michael Vitellaro has finally been relieved of his police powers and charged with felony official misconduct and battery, according to WGN.
NEW: We can confirm CPD Sgt. Michael Vitellaro is the officer who pinned a 14-year old outside of a Starbucks in Park Ridge earlier this month.
He was first identified by
@GREGTHESAGE
with ECCSC. We were able to independently confirm his identity with CPD.
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If you’re going to write a story based entirely on M3 poll results, maybe mention the pollster is the founder & president of the Northwest Side GOP club AND was the primary pollster for Paul Vallas, a fact they both kept secret during the campaign while touting M3 results.
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That’s like 8% of what police cost us every year
Chicago’s burgeoning migrant crisis will have cost taxpayers more than a quarter of a billion dollars by Dec. 31, Mayor Brandon Johnson told City Council members Friday.
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Just 🤯🤬😞 stuff
"29,000 Ukrainians ... have come to the Chicago area. There is no narrative in the media that the Ukrainians are creating a crisis. Why not?" Gonzales says because the government is quietly integrating them with work permits and social benefits..."
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Off-duty cop killed a woman last night.
The cop "was driving an Infiniti SUV in the 300 block of N State around 12:30 am Thursday. She told officers she dropped her phone and took her eyes off the road to grab it."
Cops didn't conduct a sobriety test.
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He might be a shithead, but he's our kind of shithead. --Tribune Ed Board
From the Editorial Board:
We have not wavered in our support of Paul Vallas, despite the traditional campaign machinations and revelations. Though we acknowledge Brandon Johnson’s energy, passion and intelligence, we endorse Vallas again in the runoff.
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Change that would decrease the tax for ~96% of home purchases is a "tax increase."
Nowhere does the story mention that nearly every individual is going to see a tax decrease, with the bulk of increases falling on corporate & REIT investors.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s tax increase for homeless services will head to voters
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Amazing that the very first day asylum seekers are there, his business is ruined, Fox already has a story, and he's already planning a lawsuit.
Thomas De Boer, president of the recently-opened Chicago Card Club, said the fact that part of the building he just signed a lease for is now being used to house migrants will kill his business, and cost him in the neighborhood of $100,000.
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Gardiner says the 45th ward has many Palestinian residents & while he empathizes with all victims, he cannot sign on to this resolution. Notes Palestinians have no rep in Council.
Mark this day as one of the first times we've agreed with Gardiner. Truly a sign of the apocalypse.
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Just a reminder that on Cameo, Blago will literally say anything you want for $100.
Rod Blagojevich: "This is probably...the most threatening thing to our republic since South Carolina fired shots at Fort Sumter at the start of the Civil War."
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Once again left wondering about the people advising the mayor. Going all-in on pushing for public funds to subsidize a stadium, especially without anyone from the state onboard, seems so obviously the exact wrong thing to do.
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In 6 months we paid cops overtime that amounts to nearly what advocates of Bring Chicago Home project an increased real estate transfer tax would raise to help the homeless. You won’t read that in a Trib Op-Ed.
Exclusive: Chicago spent $126.5 million on overtime for members of the Chicago Police Department during the first six months of 2023.
That's nearly 50% more than was spent during the same period last year and already exceeds the yearly budgeted amount.
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After the election, we saw lots of comments about Lightfoot saddling us with a three-year deal with NASCAR, so we were curious what the termination language was in the contract.
It turns out, the Park District could cancel future years with 6 months notice w/o any reason.
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"Forty-eight employees of Cook County Clerk of Court Iris Martinez 'no longer work' for the office after they were found to have defrauded the federal Paycheck Protection Program"
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Vallas just did the funniest thing possible.
In the last week I was asked to speak at a community forum. Unbeknownst to me it was a GOP fundraiser, and my name and likeness was used without my permission to promote the event. I will not be attending the event.
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🧵In light of CPD and the Mayor's defenses for not firing a Proud Boy cop, we revisited audio we obtained from CPD Sergeant Ammie Kessem's COPA interview after she made anti-LGBTQ posts to Facebook.
We'd argue her explanation for her post is actually worse than her post itself.
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No one wants to come to my probably illegal Bored Ape incel poker club 2 miles from the new Bally's casino because migrants
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Cops execute an activist sitting with their hands in the air, after an officer was likely shot by another cop—now the DA says the shooting was “objectively reasonable” and will not press charges.
Meanwhile area activists who helped with a bail fund face bogus terrorism charges.
The Georgia State Troopers who shot an activist 57 times during a protest of Atlanta's "Cop City" will not face charges for the killing.
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Reminder: Paul Vallas lied about being hacked, he lied about not knowing who Awake IL was, he ran for Mayor w/o rally living here, and he claims to have accidentally paid a guy $680,000.
Quoting Tupac to deflect valid questions about Dr. Arwady's termination fits a pattern of cultural references masking a slander. An unimpeachable scientist was accused of lying by a mayor uninterested in facts that don't fit a pre-set ideology-driven narrative. Shame…
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You probably can't find places more divergent than Uvalde and Highland Park. It's not a local problem. It's a problem with America's gun culture, easy access to high-powered weaponry, and our system of governance that gives disproportionate power to a right-wing death cult.
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This guy pays for Twitter Blue so please take his economic predictions very seriously.
Here’s what’s going to happen to Chicago now.
1. The middle class, families, and the wealthy will accelerate their exodus. Suburbs, but mostly other states, will benefit.
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The last issue on the ballot was whether we wanted you making decisions for us. The answer was no.
God forbid we allow the public to decide whether or not Chicago should remain a Sanctuary City or be forthcoming with details about city expenditures on immigrants. Look to Johnson & City Council allies to block attempts by other alderman to put the question on the ballot.…
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Study shows what many of us already knew. Police don’t do much to stop or solve crime and “40 years of studies consistently show that ‘the overall effect size for police force size on crime is negative, small, and not statistically significant.’
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Happy 10 year anniversary of the blue line trying to take the escalator.
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One thing the mayoral race made abundantly clear — Paul Vallas has no problem lying to the public or the press about who he is, what he believes, or basic facts (like where he resides or whether he was “hacked”).
LMAO lifelong Democrat joins libertarian think tank
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If you'd told us six months ago that the Mayor engaged with a defense contractor to put migrants in camps, and that contractor had previously been fired by Denver for lying, and they had a history of recruiting child soldiers, we'd have assumed obviously Paul Vallas won.
Aegis Defense Services, the GardaWorld subsidiary contracted to run migrant tent camps, recruited former child soldiers from Sierra Leone for security in Iraq from 2005-2015. (GardaWorld acquired ADS in 2015)
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Do police want to quit whenever someone they arrest is able to post bail? This argument makes no sense.
Illinois ending cash bail a ‘backdoor’ defund movement that will spark police exodus, experts say
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Cop throws the green hat NLG observer to the ground for no apparent reason and what appears to be a white shirt right there just watches.
Chicago police are attacking Palestine solidarity protesters on Lake Shore Drive.
Cops have punched protesters, knocked an elderly man go the ground who banged his head on the concrete and in this video shoved an
@NLGnews
legal observer to the ground and trampled them.
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All that work for what? A measly 25k votes? Lol what a waste of time in a race with a current margin of <checks notes> 17,000 votes. 🤦 This guy is so entertaining.
The right discovers, and then immediately dismisses, the concept of a field margin
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Police finally caught the Trumper who was allegedly terrorizing a northwest side family by slashing their pride flags on multiple occasions and vandalizing their garage.
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🧵NEW: Bigoted social media posts from a Chicago Police detective has gotten the attention of investigators with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.
Our joint investigation with
@JinxPress
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🧵As it turns out, we have some familiarity with this couple: Nina Cozzo and Michael Cullinan.
Based on a tip, we'd looked into Cozzo back in 2020. Cozzo used to work for the city as the Director of Facilities Management in AIS where she was making $118k, but...
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Whatever your thoughts on policing, we don't see how anyone can watch those videos of police panicking, firing a volley of 96 shots at one man, who they can't even see most of the time, in a neighborhood, and think "Yes, this seems like a reasonable response."
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Drunk cop who lost control of his car doing 75mph, crashed into a restaurant, and killed a woman gets… probation.
JUST IN: A Chicago police officer was sentenced to probation Friday for crashing into a Gresham restaurant while drunk and killing a woman in 2019.
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Prophecy fulfilled
The wisdom of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Remembering him on his day. He fought for the rights and dignity of all people. His legacy should inspire us to do whatever we can to create a better future for all.
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What’s incredible here is that this experimental program to have homicide detectives with specialized training, working more than just the daytime, and owning cases from start to finish is just… like how every police drama has worked forever.
Homicide detectives in Chicago do not work overnight shifts.
Starting next year, the CPD will roll out a new pilot program, altering how and when investigators respond to murder scenes across the city in an effort to boost CPD’s clearance rate.
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Doesn’t matter what you do for them, the police will turn on you as fast as a falling acorn.
Just a few months ago, the Fraternal Order of Police warmly thanked
@ChicagosMayor
for dropping the city's opposition to an annual
#police
pension hike and for agreeing to double some annual pay raises scheduled for cops.
This week, the union sent this to its 10,000 members.
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BEING A SANCTUARY CITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PROVIDING CLOTHING, FOOD AND SHELTER.
BEING A SANCTUARY CITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PROVIDING CLOTHING, FOOD AND SHELTER. BEING A SANCTUARY CITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PROVIDING CLOTHING, FOOD AND SHELTER.
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
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How is Chaya not a terrorist at this point but activists in Atlanta organizing bail funds are?
BREAKING: At least seventeen bomb threats have been reported against Planet Fitness locations after Libs of TikTok began a campaign against the brand for canceling the membership of a woman who took a photo of another customer using the locker room.
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Calling for a total and complete shutdown of the Tribune Editorial Board.
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City owned parking meters
What's something from Chicago's past you'd bring back if you could? Tell us why.
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