Hold Whom Accountable?

Not the "community," that's for sure:

• Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke to the City Club on Tuesday. On the eve of her first City Council meeting, Lightfoot discussed priorities for her first 100 days and how the dozens of shootings that happened over Memorial Day weekend highlight the city's need to get a handle on violence.
  
  While dealing with violence remains a top concern, Lightfoot also announced a new push for accountability for police officers and aldermen alike.

How many layers of accountability are there already? Department supervision, Internal Affairs, COPA, the Police Board, hostile courts. Better add another layer!

• "It's long overdue that the City Council act swiftly in the first 100 days to pass the ordinance proposed by the Grass Roots Alliance for Police Accountability, or GAPA, to create civilian oversight of the Chicago Police Department."

And that should be the death knell for any form of proactive police work. You are a paid observer and recorder of criminal acts. Nothing more.

Notice, not a single word about broken families, dysfunctional neighborhoods, generational failure.

Nope. The police have to be held accountable.

More Misconduct?

Who is running the Academy? This is permitted now?

• [the officer] who works at the academy who last week refused to stop for the police in 007 then led them onto the expressway where he continued then eventually stopped. He refused to show his police ID. Refused to show a DL and insurance and bordered on a threat to the officer as the stop ended. A CR number was generated but the high up bosses are already saying that it should just go away and more than likely just a misunderstanding.. after all, he is connected I hear from the rumor folks. This is the kind of guy we want in the academy having contact with and potentially training our recruits?? I hear, but not sure that the entire thing is caught on body camera. If we are seeking transparency then this one needs to stay alive and not be swept under the rug if it’s a true incident.

Oh, it's the un-indicted Johnson twin. So he's no stranger to corruption, "merit" and covering up connected misbehavior. We wonder what would happen if the mayor found out. Is she really a "reformer"?

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Feeling run down?

Are you cynical about your job?

Have you been having problems accomplishing anything police related?

Congratulations! You might be burned out:

• Is work stressing you out? You might have an actual medical condition.
  
  The World Health Organization now recognizes "burnout" in its guide as a legitimate medical diagnosis.
  
  The International Classification of Diseases Handbook places it in the section "employment" or "unemployment related problems."
  
  According to ICD-11, doctors can diagnose someone with burnout if they have three symptoms: the patient must be exhausted, experiencing mental distance or cynicism about their work and have problems getting the job done successfully.
  
  Doctors can only diagnose burnout when it comes to work. WHO says it does not apply to other life situations.

Interesting.

Littering?

Coming soon to a county near you:

• A 17-year-old man was charged with littering after two Houston Police officers said he and his 18-year-old girlfriend allegedly tossed a loaded gun out of a car. The incident happened on Sunday afternoon in the 7200 block of Tobruk Lane.
  
  According to police, Anthony Gutierrez was driving with his girlfriend Rosemary Flores, when Guiterrez allegedly committed a minor traffic violation. Police said they were trying to pull the car over, but when Guiterrez saw the police car he allegedly told Flores to toss the weapon out the window. Police pulled over Gutierrez who allegedly admitted to officers that he told Flores to throw the weapon out.
  
  According to the Texas Penal Code, it’s a Class A Misdemeanor if anyone under the age of 18-years old is found carrying a weapon, which is punishable with up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine. The officers retrieved the weapon and arrested both Gutierrez and Flores, and took them in to be processed into the jail. Police contacted the Harris County District Attorney’s Office intake division, and were told a crime hadn't been committed and that Gutierrez was abandoning the gun

Throwing a gun out the window = littering.

In Texas.

If there isn't a proposal in Crimesha's office right this second, we would be surprised.

Another CCL Success Story

The citizenry are shooting more suspects than the CPD this year:

• A concealed carry holder shot and critically wounded someone who approached him with a gun Monday in Little Village on the Southwest Side.
  
  He was walking into an apartment alley about 4:15 p.m. when a man approached him in the 2500 block of South California Avenue and took out a handgun, Chicago police said.
  
  The man, 25, took out his own gun and shot the 20-year-old in his head, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.

Well done Citizen.

Shooting

Gee, it's almost like the entire family is a bunch of assholes:

• Chicago police fatally shot an armed man Tuesday while mistakenly executing an arrest warrant on the wrong person in South Chicago.
  
  The man, a brother of a man wanted in a May 14 murder in Roseland, allegedly pulled out a gun during the arrest, police said.
  
  Officers with the department’s fugitive apprehension unit attempted to arrest the man about 1:45 p.m. in a driveway in the 8100 block of South Chappel Avenue, Sgt. Rocco Alioto said during a news conference Tuesday.
  
  The man pulled out a handgun while officers went to take him into custody while he sat in a vehicle, Alioto said. An officer then shot him.

This could all work out. Just wait for the funeral and then arrest the brother when he shows up!

Good job to the involved officers.

1,200 Cops and .....

Five dead, thirty-one wounded - so far: (totals may change prior to publication - remember, for all your truthful statistical counts, HeyJackass.com is the ONLY source trusted by SCC)

• At least 37 people were shot, five fatally, throughout Chicago on Memorial Day weekend as severe storms kept people indoors for the holiday and 1,200 officers were added to patrol the streets.
  
  Nearly a quarter of the victims were shot within five hours on Sunday at a Near West Side housing community, police said.

We had posted under nine dead and under thirty wounded so we were close. Anyone have the total amount of money spent this weekend and what it works out to in terms of dollars-to-bodies?

UPDATE: Six dead and thirty-two wounded via HeyJackass.com (1700 hours Friday to 2359 hours Monday - the 606 Trail shooting missed by a mere ten minutes)