Houses Burglarized
Targeted on the southwest side:
A pair of home burglaries Friday in Chicago has police combing the streets. They're not typical break-ins. They happened at the homes of two Chicago police officers.
CBS 2 [...] reports that thieves got away with a 0.9 mm handgun, ammunition, a gun belt, a Chicago Police Department star and body armor vest -- all from one officer's home on the Southwest side.
About three miles away, also on the Southwest side, thieves hit another officer's home. Sometime between 4:30 a.m. and 7:00 a.m., they rummaged through two cars in the garage. Police say they took a stereo, a Chicago Police Department uniform shirt and name plate and a pair of handcuffs.
We don't know what to advise here - get a dog, a safe, an alarm, be aware you may be followed home. We are all targets. Be aware.
-Predators roaming the streets dressed in stolen cop uniforms, vests, sirens and stolen I'd's, this results in a cop vs cop scenario, just so the lazy and thieves can prey on the productive, intelligent members of society.
It is true, be safe and alert, the enemy is among us as well as all around us.
As Duane Jackson, the vendor who stopped a certain terrorist attacks, says "if you see something, say something."
Monday, May 24, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Crook County Strikes Again
CPS Foreign Language Classes Face Cuts

May 12, 2010 10:21 a.m.
Elementary-age children would no longer have a chance to learn a foreign language at their neighborhood public school under a decision to dump "world languages" to save $3.5 million, Chicago Public School officials revealed to the Chicago Sun-Times Tuesday.
The move to ax languages such as Spanish, Japanese, French, Italian and Latin affects 25 neighborhood elementary schools that offer magnet programs in "world languages,'' as well as Juarez and Roosevelt high schools, officials said.
Without more money from Illinois lawmakers, the "world language'' magnet programs in the following city public schools are scheduled to be eliminated next school year:
Louisa May Alcott School
Andersen Community Academy
Ariel Community Academy
James G. Blaine School
Jonathan Burr Elementary School
Rachel Carson Elementary School
Salmon P. Chase School
William E. B. Dubois School
Robert Emmet School
Horace Greeley School
Alex Haley School
Bret Harte Elementary School
Hughes/Davis
Charles Evans Hughes School
Friedrich L. Jahn School
George Leland Elementary School
Cyrus H. McCormick School
James Monroe School
Norwood Park Elementary School
James Otis School
William H. Ray School
Harriet E. Sayre Language Academy
Beulah Shoesmith School
John Greenleaf Whittier School
Telpochcalli
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Benito Juarez High School
Outside Ray Elementary in Hyde Park on Tuesday, more than 100 frustrated parents and teachers protested the proposed loss of a program that starts teaching kids Spanish in prekindergarten.
Parents say Spanish classes are the kind of perk that private schools enjoy, and one that makes Ray -- where U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan's kids attended classes -- attractive to families outside the neighborhood.
Ray parent Ying Zhang, who speaks English and Chinese, said knowing another language "makes our kids more competitive in the world'' -- a goal often emphasized by Mayor Daley.
"In another 20 or 30 years, the population that speaks Spanish is going to be dominant in the United States, so knowing Spanish is very important,'' Zhang said. "To learn another culture and language is very important in a global economy.''
A day earlier, the local alderman, Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th), grilled Schools CEO Ron Huberman about the cuts at a City Council Finance Committee hearing.
Hairston said she wants a list of schools offering world languages, as well as those facing cuts, to see if every school is taking an equal hit under a proposal intended to help fill a $600 million budget gap.
Late Tuesday, CPS Budget Chief Christina Herzog released a list of 27 affected schools and said all world language magnet program positions were being closed -- a total of 40 jobs -- for a savings of $3.5 million. It was not clear why two high schools were singled out.
CPS intends to restore the world language program if lawmakers boost next year's funding to this year's level, CPS spokeswoman Monique Bond said.
Former School Chief, Michael Scott committed suicide after reports of his misuse of credit cards and other charges of corruption were made against him.
Corruption reigns in Chicago and the State of Illinois and the innocent school children will pay the price for this corruption.

May 12, 2010 10:21 a.m.
Elementary-age children would no longer have a chance to learn a foreign language at their neighborhood public school under a decision to dump "world languages" to save $3.5 million, Chicago Public School officials revealed to the Chicago Sun-Times Tuesday.
The move to ax languages such as Spanish, Japanese, French, Italian and Latin affects 25 neighborhood elementary schools that offer magnet programs in "world languages,'' as well as Juarez and Roosevelt high schools, officials said.
Without more money from Illinois lawmakers, the "world language'' magnet programs in the following city public schools are scheduled to be eliminated next school year:
Louisa May Alcott School
Andersen Community Academy
Ariel Community Academy
James G. Blaine School
Jonathan Burr Elementary School
Rachel Carson Elementary School
Salmon P. Chase School
William E. B. Dubois School
Robert Emmet School
Horace Greeley School
Alex Haley School
Bret Harte Elementary School
Hughes/Davis
Charles Evans Hughes School
Friedrich L. Jahn School
George Leland Elementary School
Cyrus H. McCormick School
James Monroe School
Norwood Park Elementary School
James Otis School
William H. Ray School
Harriet E. Sayre Language Academy
Beulah Shoesmith School
John Greenleaf Whittier School
Telpochcalli
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Benito Juarez High School
Outside Ray Elementary in Hyde Park on Tuesday, more than 100 frustrated parents and teachers protested the proposed loss of a program that starts teaching kids Spanish in prekindergarten.
Parents say Spanish classes are the kind of perk that private schools enjoy, and one that makes Ray -- where U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan's kids attended classes -- attractive to families outside the neighborhood.
Ray parent Ying Zhang, who speaks English and Chinese, said knowing another language "makes our kids more competitive in the world'' -- a goal often emphasized by Mayor Daley.
"In another 20 or 30 years, the population that speaks Spanish is going to be dominant in the United States, so knowing Spanish is very important,'' Zhang said. "To learn another culture and language is very important in a global economy.''
A day earlier, the local alderman, Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th), grilled Schools CEO Ron Huberman about the cuts at a City Council Finance Committee hearing.
Hairston said she wants a list of schools offering world languages, as well as those facing cuts, to see if every school is taking an equal hit under a proposal intended to help fill a $600 million budget gap.
Late Tuesday, CPS Budget Chief Christina Herzog released a list of 27 affected schools and said all world language magnet program positions were being closed -- a total of 40 jobs -- for a savings of $3.5 million. It was not clear why two high schools were singled out.
CPS intends to restore the world language program if lawmakers boost next year's funding to this year's level, CPS spokeswoman Monique Bond said.
Former School Chief, Michael Scott committed suicide after reports of his misuse of credit cards and other charges of corruption were made against him.
Corruption reigns in Chicago and the State of Illinois and the innocent school children will pay the price for this corruption.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Crook County Strikes Again -
New data shows blacks fleeing the high crime in Chicago, a city known for its rampant corruption.
The city also is populated by human traffickers who have made females their primary target as sex slaves.
FOX32 ran this article:
Chicago's Black Population Drops to 3rd
There was a time when African-Americans fled north to escape the racial oppression of the South.
But that trend has reversed according to a study showing that the Chicago area's population of African Americans has dropped from second to third place behind Atlanta.
This reversal of the ''Great Migration'' is one of the findings of a Brookings Institution Study, ''The State of Metropolitan America,'' released over the weekend.
In 1990, metropolitan Atlanta's black population ranked seventh in the nation. By 2000, it was fourth. And by 2008, Census estimates put Atlanta in second with 1.669 million African-Americans, eclipsing Chicago's 1.667 million. The New York City area remains the largest concentration of African-Americans, with 3.1 million.
The city also is populated by human traffickers who have made females their primary target as sex slaves.
FOX32 ran this article:
Chicago's Black Population Drops to 3rd
There was a time when African-Americans fled north to escape the racial oppression of the South.
But that trend has reversed according to a study showing that the Chicago area's population of African Americans has dropped from second to third place behind Atlanta.
This reversal of the ''Great Migration'' is one of the findings of a Brookings Institution Study, ''The State of Metropolitan America,'' released over the weekend.
In 1990, metropolitan Atlanta's black population ranked seventh in the nation. By 2000, it was fourth. And by 2008, Census estimates put Atlanta in second with 1.669 million African-Americans, eclipsing Chicago's 1.667 million. The New York City area remains the largest concentration of African-Americans, with 3.1 million.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Cop blogs
WARNING: THIS BLOG IS RAW!!!
Of the Cop blogs in Chicago, Det Shavedlongcock's gives a raw, raunchy look at life as a cop.
Complete with racial slurs, anti-gay, anti-feminism, he and his commenters manage to offend everyone.
Between real life cop drama, Det SLC, finds time for a little humor and musical breaks. Here is a bit of the humor.
www.funnyordie.com. Click on: White women's Workout Video
Of the Cop blogs in Chicago, Det Shavedlongcock's gives a raw, raunchy look at life as a cop.
Complete with racial slurs, anti-gay, anti-feminism, he and his commenters manage to offend everyone.
Between real life cop drama, Det SLC, finds time for a little humor and musical breaks. Here is a bit of the humor.
www.funnyordie.com. Click on: White women's Workout Video
CPS Schools- overhauled
Former CPS Chief, Michael Scott committed suicide or was murdered as charges of improper use of credit cards and other charges of corruption were made against him, now Huberman is cleaning house.
Eighty principals -- some of them only a year or two into their contracts -- will be replaced to shape up chronically-under-performing Chicago Public Schools, Schools CEO Ron Huberman said Monday.
Huberman made the surprise disclosure under questioning from Ald. Ray Suarez (31st) during a City Council Finance Committee hearing on Round Two of Mayor Daley's plan to use tax-increment-financing dollars for school construction.
The unprecedented number of principal changes will be accomplished through a combination of "retirements, disciplinary removal and voluntary resignations," Huberman said.
"We're gonna be removing approximately 80 principals. ... That is a very high number for us. We don't believe those principals are performing for schools. ... A key leader in a school makes a big difference," he said.
"Many of these planned exits of principals we don't believe are performing are folks who are one or two years into their contract. If a principal is not performing, simply the fact they have a contract is not something that prevents us from acting on that removal."
Suarez said some of the schools in his Northwest Side ward have been so bad for so long, they've turned supportive parents and gung-ho politicians into advocates for school vouchers.
"This didn't just happen last week. This has been going on for many, many years. And you still give the same excuse: 'We're working on it. We have a contract.' In private industry when you have a leader and he's not performing, I don't care what kind of contract he's got. He's out," Suarez said.
"I'm starting to become more and more a believer that the only way you're gonna get the message across is through a voucher system. If that school doesn't change, then those parents have a right to take their kids to a better school."
Huberman countered, "We're not giving excuses. ... These are all planned exits that are being executed."
As for the $175 million installment of Daley's school construction plan, it was temporarily de-railed amid complaints that money was being raided from adjacent TIF's and that restrictive attendance policies made it difficult for residents of those wards to send their kids to the new schools.
"You all are putting us in a bind. You know we can't go against [building] schools," Ald. Walter Burnett (27th) yelled during a lengthy rant.
"Our TIF dollars should not be used for these schools. It's not right how you all are doing this. ... You gotta play fair. You've got to stop playing us."
Eighty principals -- some of them only a year or two into their contracts -- will be replaced to shape up chronically-under-performing Chicago Public Schools, Schools CEO Ron Huberman said Monday.
Huberman made the surprise disclosure under questioning from Ald. Ray Suarez (31st) during a City Council Finance Committee hearing on Round Two of Mayor Daley's plan to use tax-increment-financing dollars for school construction.
The unprecedented number of principal changes will be accomplished through a combination of "retirements, disciplinary removal and voluntary resignations," Huberman said.
"We're gonna be removing approximately 80 principals. ... That is a very high number for us. We don't believe those principals are performing for schools. ... A key leader in a school makes a big difference," he said.
"Many of these planned exits of principals we don't believe are performing are folks who are one or two years into their contract. If a principal is not performing, simply the fact they have a contract is not something that prevents us from acting on that removal."
Suarez said some of the schools in his Northwest Side ward have been so bad for so long, they've turned supportive parents and gung-ho politicians into advocates for school vouchers.
"This didn't just happen last week. This has been going on for many, many years. And you still give the same excuse: 'We're working on it. We have a contract.' In private industry when you have a leader and he's not performing, I don't care what kind of contract he's got. He's out," Suarez said.
"I'm starting to become more and more a believer that the only way you're gonna get the message across is through a voucher system. If that school doesn't change, then those parents have a right to take their kids to a better school."
Huberman countered, "We're not giving excuses. ... These are all planned exits that are being executed."
As for the $175 million installment of Daley's school construction plan, it was temporarily de-railed amid complaints that money was being raided from adjacent TIF's and that restrictive attendance policies made it difficult for residents of those wards to send their kids to the new schools.
"You all are putting us in a bind. You know we can't go against [building] schools," Ald. Walter Burnett (27th) yelled during a lengthy rant.
"Our TIF dollars should not be used for these schools. It's not right how you all are doing this. ... You gotta play fair. You've got to stop playing us."
Crook County Strikes Again
Fake crime stats released again. When lazy and corrupt - lie, its the Chicago way.
Chicago's violent crime numbers for April are in. Police Superintendent Jody Weis says the overall crime rate is down but homicides are up.
It's a sad reminder to a sorority of women on Chicago's Southside. There are no tears of joy on Mother's day for them. They all lost a child to violence in Chicago.
A statue was dedicated in honor of their children at Saint Sabina on the Southside Sunday. This is Dominique Mayo's second Mother's day without her son, Sameere. A shooting scene in her neighborhood Saturday night brought back horrible memories.
Mayo says, "When I saw that yellow tape and the police cars and that brought back that night when I was coming home."
Mayo says her 15 year old son was shot and killed on his way home from a football game.
She says he was the target of a gang member who was trying to recruit him. Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis talked about the latest violent crime numbers for April. "I am pleased to announce that overall crime is down 6.9 percent compared to last year."
Even with a spike in violence at the beginning of April, reports show there has been a decline in violent crimes overall in Chicago this year by 11 percent.
Weis says the one violent crime to increase in the last year is homicides, by 8 percent.
As of Mother's day, there have been 127 homicides in Chicago.
Weis says 33 of them happened behind closed doors. "When they're indoors, there's not a lot that we can do to prevent that."
Instead of celebrating, Dominique Mayo is mourning this Mother's day and she's praying for an end to violent crimes in Chicago like the one that killed her son. "What do you think would have saved your son?" Mayo replied, "If that young man hadn't had that gun."
As part of I-CARE week, the first of many youth led events kicks off Monday afternoon at Daley Plaza. Hundreds of young people from all across the city are expected to gather for a rally to show outrage over the recent homicides in Chicago.
CPD: According to preliminary crime statistics through the end of April 2010:
Violent Index Crime is down 11 percent
Homicide - up 8 percent
Criminal Sexual Assault - down 13.2 percent
Robbery - down 13.6 percent
Aggravated Assault - down 14.8 percent
Aggravated Battery - down 5 percent
Property Index Crime is down 5.7 percent
Burglary - down .8 percent
Theft - down 10.9 percent
Motor Vehicle Theft - up 13.7 percent
Arson-- down 20 percent
Chicago's violent crime numbers for April are in. Police Superintendent Jody Weis says the overall crime rate is down but homicides are up.
It's a sad reminder to a sorority of women on Chicago's Southside. There are no tears of joy on Mother's day for them. They all lost a child to violence in Chicago.
A statue was dedicated in honor of their children at Saint Sabina on the Southside Sunday. This is Dominique Mayo's second Mother's day without her son, Sameere. A shooting scene in her neighborhood Saturday night brought back horrible memories.
Mayo says, "When I saw that yellow tape and the police cars and that brought back that night when I was coming home."
Mayo says her 15 year old son was shot and killed on his way home from a football game.
She says he was the target of a gang member who was trying to recruit him. Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis talked about the latest violent crime numbers for April. "I am pleased to announce that overall crime is down 6.9 percent compared to last year."
Even with a spike in violence at the beginning of April, reports show there has been a decline in violent crimes overall in Chicago this year by 11 percent.
Weis says the one violent crime to increase in the last year is homicides, by 8 percent.
As of Mother's day, there have been 127 homicides in Chicago.
Weis says 33 of them happened behind closed doors. "When they're indoors, there's not a lot that we can do to prevent that."
Instead of celebrating, Dominique Mayo is mourning this Mother's day and she's praying for an end to violent crimes in Chicago like the one that killed her son. "What do you think would have saved your son?" Mayo replied, "If that young man hadn't had that gun."
As part of I-CARE week, the first of many youth led events kicks off Monday afternoon at Daley Plaza. Hundreds of young people from all across the city are expected to gather for a rally to show outrage over the recent homicides in Chicago.
CPD: According to preliminary crime statistics through the end of April 2010:
Violent Index Crime is down 11 percent
Homicide - up 8 percent
Criminal Sexual Assault - down 13.2 percent
Robbery - down 13.6 percent
Aggravated Assault - down 14.8 percent
Aggravated Battery - down 5 percent
Property Index Crime is down 5.7 percent
Burglary - down .8 percent
Theft - down 10.9 percent
Motor Vehicle Theft - up 13.7 percent
Arson-- down 20 percent
Sunday, May 9, 2010
One year ago this march, I joined the world of twitter, neglecting my own blog to do so.
Today, I rejoined the world of bloggers.
Since I've been away, there have been four highly public suicide of top officials, the last being Metra's top guy, Phil Pagano, who walked onto Metra train racks and waited for a metra train to hit him and kill him.
Pagano's suicide was on the same day he was expected to be fired or censure for corruption and giving himself an undeserved 56,000 bonus.
Pagano is the fourth top public official to die of suicide because of corruption. The others were Michael Scott (chicago public Schools), Chris Kelly ( fund-raiser for former Gov Blagojevitch),
Two Fire Comd have been investigated for sexual harassment.
A Chicago Fire Commander resigned by retiring the same day Metra's Chief, Pagano --- committed suicide.
Ald Caroothers was indicted and sent to jail.
House Speaker Michael madigan has been accused of using clout to get people into UiC and no budget has been passed for the upcoming year.
Indicted, former Gov Blagojevitch has been fired from Celebrity Apprentice, he was bad, bad and is now on trial for trying to sell POTUS Obama's former Senate seat.
Our new Top Cop's nickname has been changed from J-Fed to J-Fled as he was accused of cowardice for leaving the scene of a shooting while at least 50 CPD stood around at J-Fed's Press Conference called together to discuss the epidemic of violent crime in Chicago.
Mayor Daley and J-Fed, hosted another gun "buyback" and Mayor Daley said the violence is the parent's fault and they even have domestic violence in their homes.
The violence is due to the unending corruption on this city that starts at the top.
It is time for Mayor Daley to retire as the Supreme Court debates if Chicago's gun control law is unconstitutional and gun violence is as widespread as the Mayor is dumb.
Time to vote them all out.
Organizations to join, volunteer or donate to: www.ACalltoMen.org, www.MenCanStopRape.org
www.actionnow.org, www.worldprayer.org, www.tolerance.org
Today, I rejoined the world of bloggers.
Since I've been away, there have been four highly public suicide of top officials, the last being Metra's top guy, Phil Pagano, who walked onto Metra train racks and waited for a metra train to hit him and kill him.
Pagano's suicide was on the same day he was expected to be fired or censure for corruption and giving himself an undeserved 56,000 bonus.
Pagano is the fourth top public official to die of suicide because of corruption. The others were Michael Scott (chicago public Schools), Chris Kelly ( fund-raiser for former Gov Blagojevitch),
Two Fire Comd have been investigated for sexual harassment.
A Chicago Fire Commander resigned by retiring the same day Metra's Chief, Pagano --- committed suicide.
Ald Caroothers was indicted and sent to jail.
House Speaker Michael madigan has been accused of using clout to get people into UiC and no budget has been passed for the upcoming year.
Indicted, former Gov Blagojevitch has been fired from Celebrity Apprentice, he was bad, bad and is now on trial for trying to sell POTUS Obama's former Senate seat.
Our new Top Cop's nickname has been changed from J-Fed to J-Fled as he was accused of cowardice for leaving the scene of a shooting while at least 50 CPD stood around at J-Fed's Press Conference called together to discuss the epidemic of violent crime in Chicago.
Mayor Daley and J-Fed, hosted another gun "buyback" and Mayor Daley said the violence is the parent's fault and they even have domestic violence in their homes.
The violence is due to the unending corruption on this city that starts at the top.
It is time for Mayor Daley to retire as the Supreme Court debates if Chicago's gun control law is unconstitutional and gun violence is as widespread as the Mayor is dumb.
Time to vote them all out.
Organizations to join, volunteer or donate to: www.ACalltoMen.org, www.MenCanStopRape.org
www.actionnow.org, www.worldprayer.org, www.tolerance.org
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