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Here's what Brandon inherits as Mayor.  So what was effectively his first act as Mayor?  Was it to appoint a tough-on-crime police chief?  Was it to announce hiring more cops or cracking down on gangs that drive violence on Chicago's streets with impunity? Nope. He signed "executive orders" to establish…

Tuesday, May 16th is one day we've all been waiting for.  The Illinois Supreme Court will hear Kwame Raoul's appeal of the Caulkins case where a Macon County Circuit Court judge struck down JB Pritzker's gun and magazine ban law. The LiveStream starts at 9am for the first case, and…

Earlier today, we posted a video urging people not to let their neighborhood become like the one in Seattle where two groups of young men postured with one another and then things devolved into a brazen gun battle.  Here, we bring a video example of the robberies that happen in…

Crime without consequences.  That's Chicago and that's why it's become the nation's largest open-air shooting range.  With police "clearing" just 3.6% of non-fatal shootings, bad guys know they can shoot people and not even worry about it.  The good news, if you can call it that, is that CPD is…

Don't let Democratic criminal justice 'reform' turn your neighborhood into this... NSFW language...  and, of course, violence. There are lessons to be learned here, specifically in pre-violence indicators in the body language of participants.  See how many you can count before the gunfire breaks out...  (Then again, I'm watching it…

John Kass, recovering from heart surgery and a stroke, took time out to write a wonderful piece on the death of Chicago Police Officer Areanah Preston.  Her death isn't the first of an innocent, productive person killed by brazen feral bad guys who commit violent crime without fear of apprehension,…

Some people are voted most likely to succeed in high school.  Others can't read the instructions on a tin of breath mints.  That would be James Pierce who thought he was going to assassinate a pair of deputies from Charleston County, South Carolina.  The 28-year-old Pierce must have thought a…

Well now.  Looks like our analysis was spot on when it comes to Amy Coney Barrett and Monday morning.  We said we thought ACB was probably going to do something Monday and it looks like the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals thought the same thing. The Seventh issued an order…

Bad policing costs taxpayers real money.  We recently profiled a case in Normal, IL where the police there failed miserably in an interaction with an 18-year-old ISU student.  Instead of practicing de-escalation, a cop with a wounded ego escalated a verbal dispute over the unlawful seizure of the student's cellphone…

House Bill 676 passed the Illinois House today and goes to the Senate.  Among its provisions is a section mandating that police seize firearms from anyone subject to an order of protection or a Red Flag order.  This includes ex parte orders where the respondent is not notified of a…