Chicago

[WLJ]

I have a cousin who lives in Tinley Park . . . just sent her a text for an update on what her take is on what happened.

Edited to add: OK, my cousin didn't know anything about it - Tinley Park isn't that big, but she didn't see or hear any disturbances, and so far she hasn't seen anything about it on the local news. So maybe it wasn't that big a deal after all.

Some local news with video. I don't know you be the judge. Looks crazy to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BStK6XAsLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2sIt-XIvMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvEDNLF1jMc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMlzDtSwPYU

[WLJ]

And speaking of O'Hare

Video captures wild brawl at Chicago's O'Hare airport, leading to 2 arrests
https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-captures-wild-brawl-chicagos-ohare-airport-leading-2-arrests

[HankB]

Some local news with video. I don't know you be the judge. Looks crazy to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BStK6XAsLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2sIt-XIvMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvEDNLF1jMc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMlzDtSwPYU

Disorderly, but only five or six arrests - one cop had a minor injury. No reports of arson, looting, stabbings or shootings, so it didn't rise to the level of 2020s MostlyPeacefulProtests^TM.  (Maybe because the local cops did their job rather than standing down?)

Still the kind of thing I'd try real hard to avoid.

[WLJ]

(Maybe because the local cops did their job rather than standing down?)

They didn't just stand there and watch this time.

[BobR]

And speaking of O'Hare

Video captures wild brawl at Chicago's O'Hare airport, leading to 2 arrests
https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-captures-wild-brawl-chicagos-ohare-airport-leading-2-arrests

Random observation number 5,432. Whenever a "brawl" makes the news because of the location or number of people it is overwhelmingly blacks involved. Maybe there is a lot more truth in the statement that many conservative blacks have made pertaining to lack of fathers in the community to provide moral guidance than people want to admit.

bob

[WLJ]

The governor is sending "peace keepers"

    This weekend, Chicagoans should expect to see yellow-vested Peacekeepers on the streets.

    As part of the state's anti-violence strategy with a community-focused approach, these outreach workers will help de-escalate and keep our neighborhoods safe. https://t.co/Qu1cquGaHB

    — Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) May 25, 2023

Will have about the same effect as the Walmart door greeters do on shoplifters.
How long before one or more of these "peace keepers" are shot?

 Gov. Pritzker hopes Chicagoans feel safer with ‘yellow-vested Peacekeepers’ on the streets
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2023/05/27/gov-pritzker-hopes-chicagoans-feel-safer-with-yellow-vested-peacekeepers-on-the-streets/

[WLJ]

Random observation number 5,432. Whenever a "brawl" makes the news because of the location or number of people it is overwhelmingly blacks involved. Maybe there is a lot more truth in the statement that many conservative blacks have made pertaining to lack of fathers in the community to provide moral guidance than people want to admit.

bob

Some locates have "solved" that issue by banning the inclusion of a suspect's race in their description

[Pb]

Maybe there is a lot more truth in the statement that many conservative blacks have made pertaining to lack of fathers in the community to provide moral guidance than people want to admit.

Maybe... but the rates of homicide committed by blacks was actually much higher in the earlier part of the 20th century when bastardy rates were much lower.  There has got to be a lot more going on.

[WLJ]

Maybe... but the rates of homicide committed by blacks was actually much higher in the earlier part of the 20th century when bastardy rates were much lower.  There has got to be a lot more going on.

Do we have actual hard data on that?

[Pb]

Do we have actual hard data on that?

Yes... look at table 1.  I was pretty surprised to learn this was the case as well.  The black illegitimacy rate in the 1930s was around 20% I think, around what the white rate is now.

https://cjrc.osu.edu/sites/cjrc.osu.edu/files/AHSV-American-Homicides-Twentieth-Century.pdf

The white homicide rate is interesting.  It has varied from around 2.3-8, and has not shown a constant trend one way or another. 

The black rate has jumped around some, but is still less than it has been historically.

[WLJ]

The governor is sending "peace keepers"

Will have about the same effect as the Walmart door greeters do on shoplifters.
How long before one or more of these "peace keepers" are shot?

 Gov. Pritzker hopes Chicagoans feel safer with ‘yellow-vested Peacekeepers’ on the streets
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2023/05/27/gov-pritzker-hopes-chicagoans-feel-safer-with-yellow-vested-peacekeepers-on-the-streets/

Keeping the peace

A  Chicago man wearing a neon yellow “peacekeepers” vest helped a group of people beat and rob a motorist in Little Village on Friday night, according to a Chicago Police Department report. The allegations come after city and state officials lauded the use of “peacekeepers” as a tool they would deploy over the Memorial Day weekend to tamp down violence across the city.

https://cwbchicago.com/2023/05/chicago-man-wearing-peacekeeping-vest-charged-beating-robbing-victim-little-village.html

After officials said a man wearing a yellow “peacekeeper” vest was among a group of offenders who severely beat and robbed a driver in Little Village on Friday, a proponent of the anti-violence programs argued that the accused man had simply “mishandled the stress” of working as a peacekeeper.

https://cwbchicago.com/2023/05/chicago-parolee-beating-robbery-charge-mishandled-stress-of-peacekeeping-federal-offical.html

Got that? He "mishandled the stress of working as a peacekeeper"

[WLJ]

But the other "Peace Keepers" did a great job.

Data from Chicago police show that from 6p.m. Friday to 11:59 p.m. Monday, at least 11 people were killed and at least 53 others, including two 2-year-olds, were wounded in shootings across the city.

According to a report from the Chicago Sun-Times, it was the deadliest Memorial Day weekend in Chicago in eight years.

Chicago Sees Violent Memorial Day Weekend With At Least 11 Killed, 50 Wounded in Shootings
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-weekend-shootings-memorial-day-weekend-violence-2023-mayor-brandon-johnson/3151194/

[Perd Hapley]

About that peacekeeper:

Montes, who “complained of back and neck injuries, as well as PTSD,” was treated at St. Anthony’s Hospital, according to the CPD report.

His defense attorney on Sunday said he has a 14-year-old child and is a certified emergency medical technician. He volunteers “when he can” and goes to church, the lawyer said. But neither the public defender nor Golaszewski mentioned any peacekeeping activities that Montes might have been involved with.

Montes is on parole for a 2012 case in which he pleaded guilty to aggravated discharge of a firearm into an occupied vehicle. Golaszewski said those allegations stemmed from an incident involving a rival gang member of Montes in Little Village. Court records show Montes was originally charged with attempted murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge.

He was released on May 6, 2022, after serving a little more than ten years of a 12-year sentence, according to Illinois Department of Corrections records. State officials are reviewing his parole status in light of the new allegations.

https://cwbchicago.com/2023/05/chicago-man-wearing-peacekeeping-vest-charged-beating-robbing-victim-little-village.html

[RoadKingLarry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8cxRnz0G14

[WLJ]

Guess who's Harvard’s new ‘Health Policy and Leadership’ teacher?

    Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s next chapter will take her to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she will teach a course tentatively titled “Health Policy and Leadership,” drawing heavily on her experiences steering the city through the COVID-19 pandemic and grappling with health equity issues.

    Lightfoot will be the Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel senior leadership fellow at the school for the quarter beginning at the end of August.

    Eric Andersen, director of the Senior Leadership Fellows Program and studio programming at the school, said in an interview, “we reached out” to Lightfoot because “I think as mayor and as a leader she faced many pressing public health issues, most notable navigating the pandemic.

Can't make this ____ up

 Byron York checks mayoral resume of Harvard’s new ‘Health Policy and Leadership’ teacher
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2023/06/02/byron-york-checks-mayoral-resume-of-harvards-new-health-policy-and-leadership-teacher/

[HankB]

Guess who's Harvard’s new ‘Health Policy and Leadership’ teacher?

Can't make this ____ up

 Byron York checks mayoral resume of Harvard’s new ‘Health Policy and Leadership’ teacher
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2023/06/02/byron-york-checks-mayoral-resume-of-harvards-new-health-policy-and-leadership-teacher/

Even the Babylon Bee couldn't come up with anything THIS absurd - this is just another indicator that reality has overtaken satire, and the inmates really ARE running the asylum.

[WLJ]

Remember how while calling for defunding the police Lightfoot had 90 police officers assigned to protecting her and her family?
Well not to be out done "defund the police" Mayor Johnson now has 149

Ninety cops apparently aren’t enough to keep the current mayor and his family feeling safe and secure, so Johnson has upped the protective detail by 65%. The guy who presided over a 38% increase in major crimes in his first thirty days in office, now has 149 sworn officers to keep him safe. He has more cops on his personal protection detail than all but 10 police department in the rest of the state

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Surrounds Himself With 149 Police Bodyguards While ‘Defunding the Police’ For The Little People
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-surrounds-himself-with-149-police-bodyguards-while-defunding-the-police-for-the-little-people/

[WLJ]

More Mayor Johnson
Don't used the word mob to describe a ... well...mob

Large youth gatherings downtown have vexed Chicago police and other city leaders for the last decade, often springing up via social media flyers during warm summer months and sometimes turning violent. The mayor, who despite pushback has continued to vow that he will never demonize youth, elaborated Wednesday that his administration has “intercepted” other attempts at large gatherings that “could have been even more severe,” while also taking umbrage with the teens being described as a “mob.”

“That’s not appropriate. We’re not talking about mob actions,” Johnson said. “We have to be careful when we use language to describe certain behavior. There’s a history in this city, and, I mean, to refer to children as like baby Al Capones is not appropriate.”

Mayor Brandon Johnson defends response to teen gatherings, migrant crisis: ‘My administration is different’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mayor-brandon-johnson-defends-response-to-teen-gatherings-migrant-crisis-my-administration-is-different/ar-AA1eI08I

Okay, how about mostly peaceful gathering?

[WLJ]

Babylon Bee BTW

Chicago Mayor Says That Due To Negative Connotations We Should Stop Using The Word 'Chicago'
https://babylonbee.com/news/chicago-mayor-says-that-due-to-negative-connotations-we-should-stop-using-the-word-chicago

[WLJ]

Not the Babylon Bee but it reads like it.

A North Side community group is calling for people to refrain from shooting guns in Chicago between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. to reduce the risk to people “not involved in high risk activities.”

Time clocks next?

Chicago group wants gangbangers to refrain from firing guns between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.
https://cwbchicago.com/2023/08/chicago-group-want-gangbangers-to-refrain-from-firing-guns-between-9-a-m-and-9-p-m.html

[WLJ]

Chicago suing Kia and Hyundai for what their seemingly favorite demographic (criminals) is doing

The City of Chicago is suing two major automakers amid a growing car theft crisis.

Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's office announced that the city filed the lawsuit against automakers Kia and Hyundai, alleging that both companies have failed to include "industry-standard engine immobilizers" in several models of vehicles, which resulted in a "steep rise" in crime.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sues automakers as car theft 'crisis' gets worse
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-sues-automakers-car-theft-crisis-gets-worse

[MechAg94]

Even the Babylon Bee couldn't come up with anything THIS absurd - this is just another indicator that reality has overtaken satire, and the inmates really ARE running the asylum.

Sounds to me like someone owed her a favor and set her up with a do nothing job.  Harvard gets a donation to its endowment. 

[griz]

Chicago suing Kia and Hyundai for what their seemingly favorite demographic (criminals) is doing

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sues automakers as car theft 'crisis' gets worse
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-sues-automakers-car-theft-crisis-gets-worse

Actual news is sounding more and more like satire.  "Rapist sues victim for being too attractive:

[JTHunter]

Chicago suing Kia and Hyundai for what their seemingly favorite demographic (criminals) is doing

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sues automakers as car theft 'crisis' gets worse
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-sues-automakers-car-theft-crisis-gets-worse

St. Louis mayor trying the same tactic. 

[WLJ]

    

Chicago news crew robbed at gunpoint while covering armed robbery
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2023/08/28/chicago-news-crew-robbed-at-gunpoint-while-covering-armed-robbery-n74218