Chicago, IL —I remember a strange case in 1976 where witnesses claim they saw a lone Chicago cop get out of his marked squad and engage an armed suspect in a gun fight. The offender died but the still unknown officer fled the scene. It was a justifiable shooting and the officer leaving and avoiding any and all investigation was no crime. The department pulled out all the stops to find the officer who violated department policy by his flight. Perhaps the officer was off of his beat and maybe outside of his district. Some districts have little choice for meals and officers sometimes risk a suspension for a decent meal in a neighboring district. Maybe the officer was making a booty call during his lunch period? Where the cop came from is anyone’s guess. One significant benefit of the officer’s flight was avoiding the old, Office of Professional Standards and a lots of paper related misery. The real benefit was the officer made no statement whatsoever which is his right as an America...

Chicago, IL --In order to collect food stamps, welfare, and those wildly popular cash cards the government won’t demand proof of legal residency or even positive identification of the recipients. Fingerprinting and a little database management could prevent redundant payments, ineligible precipitants, and alike.  Our politicians can be counted upon to obstruct any effort to contain the fraud. The direct deposit of funds into bank accounts allows those on the dole to live anywhere in the world as they collect from as many as 50 states.  Grab a few identities along the way and the sky is the limit!  Around 1970 I learned a trick by a high rolling Chicago lady.  She had furs, jewels and bought a new car every year.  She complained about the cost of her facelift saying everyone was entitled to such elective medical procedures free of charge.    The woman had at least a dozen names on a mailbox at an apartment where she did not even live. Like clockwor...

Chicago, IL —In the case against Chicago police officer William Cozzi , the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals today has nullified longstanding agreements that protect officers from statements made in administrative proceedings. Every American other than police officers has an absolute right to remain silent when under investigation. Police agencies have the difficult job of sorting out events to determine if their officers are acting within the law and established department policies. The police agencies have determined a way to obtain their officer’s cooperation during internal investigations through immunization agreements that preclude those statements from being used in court against the officers. Because of the Cozzi opinion any officers who cooperates with the department during an internal investigation are fools that can expect to see whatever they say used against them anyway. Any officer that has to for example, use any force whatsoever is crazy to make a written repor...

Chicago, IL —In Chicago the ghetto rats know the cops are too ineffective to even begin to controlling them. Cops are bound by stringent rules and discipline. Cops are not allowed to arm themselves with more effective weapons and will never have parity with the thugs.  This is aggravated by the mismanagement and theft of taxpayer funds in a terrible economy. The law-abiding people in the community are not allowed to help beyond snitching and they have no reasonable means for self-defense when the thugs retaliate. To take control of Chicago’s streets police need a cooperative effort between armed, law-abiding citizens and police. In the words of my friend, Professor John Lott , "More guns, equals less crime." The only cure: 1.     A right to carry law for reasonable self-defense.  2.     Free firearms training including the laws and liability of the justifiable use of deadly force. 3.     City leaders must invite the law-abidi...

Chicago, IL —In the otherwise boring but high profile trial of former Governor Rod Blagojevich great pains were made by prosecutors and Judge James Zage l to protect every member of the Obama Mafia from exposure or attention. I can’t help but believe there are sinister motives behind Zagel’s rulings. I saw an incredibly cleaver move by the feisty Sam Adam, Jr. who proved to be a legal clone of his legendary father. Frustrated by the constant over-protection of the Obama Crime Organization and convicted criminals associated with those Whitehouse occupants, Adam found a great solution. Adam wanted to jury to know that he was not permitted to bring in or examine the Whitehouse Mafia members. Adam wants everyone to know they’re being protected for nefarious reasons. Judge Zagel put his massive foot right on Adam’s throat threatening him in the process. That got major press attention. Adam is no fool he ran with that football for a major touchdown by suggesting he’d go to jail i...

As a private investigator and blogger I have learned a sad truth. The vast majority of people on jury duty are bored, and for excitement they violate absolutely every court order on avoiding published or broadcast materials regarding the cases they are deciding. The very first thing a surprising number of people do on jury duty is a Google search on the names of the key players. Who will try and stop these folks in the privacy of their own homes? The First Amendment allows anyone to publish anything they wish before cases are to be tried or court orders are issued. A pre-litigation documentary film setting out the facts away from the constraints of the courtroom is an incredible public relations tool to help any litigant or criminal defendant.   The litigants themselves would be foolish in most cases to say anything on camera about their cases since anything they say can be used against them. The same goes for their witnesses. Getting the other side parties and adverse witnesse...

Washington, DC —I will begin by blaming George H.W. Bush and then George W. Bush . Barack Obama is no better here at all. John F. Kenned y in an honorable effort wanted to protect countries in Southeast Asia from the Communist menace sent our kids to war.  We took over for the French and began to sacrifice some 60,000 of our country’s kids protecting South Viet Nam. For everyone killed there were five more with horrible injuries both physical and mental. Soon the Communists and Socialists within our own government began obstructing and aiding our enemies. The Socialist majority in our Congress made sure our military did not have the tools or orders to stop the invasion from the North including China. The war was prolonged until our exhausted soldiers were withdrawn. Millions of non-Communists were murdered in the holocaust that we allowed to take place after. It was a victory for world Socialism. Now these politicians have sent our kids off for the impossible task of ...

Houston, TX — Edward R. Murrow and other TV news pioneers dictated the format of TV news.  Beyond high definition color broadcasts and glitzy graphics for our new flat panel TVs little has changed in the 55 years since. The teleprompter along with pleasant personality with and a decent smile has made the anchor.  The anchors for the most part were serious journalists but that all ends the moment they sit in the anchor’s throne.  News gathering is no longer their responsibility. We pay the pretty news readers much more than reporters and they are the ones that get the celebrity treatment. But are anchors really needed? Tribune broadcasting is about to find out after their Houston station, KIAH-TV (CW) jettisoned their newsreaders and are about to begin broadcasting without them. TV news has lost huge amounts of revenue and cutting the fat out of the budget can’t be avoided. Anchors are expensive.  Anchors do bring order to the stories as the serves as guide...

Phoenix, AZ —I’ve known State Senator Russ Pearce for 30 years and Governor Jan Brewer and Sheriff Joe Arpiao for nearly as long. They all have had to live with and personally pay for the consequences of the failure and refusal of the federal government to do its duty securing our borders and tax treasury. Pearce was a Maricopa County Deputy Sheriff long before Sheriff Joe Arpaio came to Arizona. He had to deal with the drug smugglers, dealers and the crimes such as kidnapping and murder that are no small part of that illegal alien culture. Pearce has seen the bodies of the victims murdered by the criminal aliens and has had to risk his life arresting the killers. Jan Brewer and every other Arizona taxpayer has had to personally shell out for the entitlements, entitlement fraud, medical care, criminal prosecution, criminal defense and jailing of an unimaginable population of trespassers that have invaded Arizona. Along with crime, poverty and drugs the trespassers bring dis...

Joliet, IL — Drew Peterson’s lawyers filed two separate Motions to dismiss charges that Peterson unlawfully possessed a short barreled rifle in violation of Illinois law. The Peterson weapon charge was and is nothing more than a conspiratorial police method of stripping Peterson of his right to possess and carry a firearm.  Authorities want to justify this because Peterson is under two active but yet unsolved investigations. People under investigation cannot be stripped of rights by police.  This was an end run around the laws and nothing more. Simply said police and prosecutors violated Peterson’s Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.   The exact charge Peterson faces is "Unlawful Use Of A Weapon under 720 ILCS/24(a)(7)(ii), to wit: having possession of a rifle, a Colt Sporter Lightweight AR ‐ 15 .223 Caliber Serial# SL025365, with a barrel length less than 16 inches in length on November 1, 2007." Motion to dismiss Re: LEOSA ACT is sealed .  I can t...

Washington, DC —In what could only be describe as racist inspired effort to establish Socialism in America, the African-American Entitlement Zombie was created. When the state residency requirements to collect welfare were outlawed by the Earl Warren Court in the early 1960s the poorest African-Americans began a mass-migration to the big cities. The outlawed residency requirements insured that welfare assistance would automatically be denied to anyone who could not establish that they were a resident of that state for at least one year. States like Michigan, Illinois, New York, Maryland and Ohio paid generous benefits to those people unable or unwilling to work. The states in the Deep South did not believe in the handout programs. Racist Southern officials soon realized they could export their poorest African-Americans through educating them of the generous entitlements in the North. Officials actually provided one way bus transportation and five dollars in cash to anyone who...

Image via Wikipedia Washington, DC —It’s going to happen well within the 909 days left in Barack Obama’s presidency.  Obama will be removed from the Whitehouse one way or another over his treason, corruption revelations, or his exposed foreign origin.  Obama’s resignation, impeachment or removal by other means will spark African-American riots in every major American city. That will be Joe Biden’s welcome as he takes the oath of office.  As always the damage and lost lives will be limited to the ghettos and nearby retail businesses.   Other than being an African, Obama does not have much in common with, nor has he done anything significant to improve the lives of African-Americans.  Having dark skin alone and a Muslim name has not an icon made.  After a year of Jubilation by African-Americans of Obama’s election disappointment is rumbling because things are getting worse instead of improving.   Joe Biden’s been kept away from daily Whitehouse af...

Chicago, I L—When Chicago police do the job they were trained to do people are arrested taken to jail, tried and in the vast majority of cases convicted. When Ghetto Rats are arrested, the natural way friends and family members of the accused do what they know works to defeat the arrest. They go to the politicians, local ministers and media as they complain and hold protest demonstrations. Of course this always comes with the obligatory phony allegations of racial profiling, brutality and falsified evidence. Chicago cops are underpaid, undermanned, outgunned, demoralized and simply tired. They and their families are exhausted from drowning in a sea of chaos every time they make an arrest. The constant phony allegations, internal investigations, and stress related to doing their job has taken a terrible toll. Are cops assigned to ghetto districts suffering from a form of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome? I have to suspect that’s been the case all along. There can only be one t...

Joliet, IL -In their over-zealous attempt to convict retired Bolingbrook police sergeant, Drew Peterson prosecutors lacking any tangible and admissible evidence got the IL Legislature to make the Drew Peterson Hearsay Exception Law. The foreign hearsay concept derails criminal trials, into gossip contests while degrading the rules of evidence and American Due Process.  The new law denies an accused the fundamental constitutional right to face an accuser in court. In the Peterson case last week a sealed court ruling was obviously leaked by prosecutors to the media. Now every potential juror has been informed that Peterson was already judged guilty by Judge Stephen White . This may well and should cost prosecutors a dismissal of the entire case. I began to think about how savvy and knowledgeable people wind up on juries. The sealing of such a ruling would be totally worthless under those circumstances. I guess since Judge White is in uncharted territory he seemed to forg...

Washington, DC— Millions of Americans are idle and desperately need money. There are two ways to deal with the problem. One is right and the other is dead wrong. The right way to handle this is the American way and it’s just too simple. You give all businesses that don’t lay off workers or hire more workers very attractive tax breaks. At the same time tax withholdings from workers paychecks are greatly reduced or eliminated enabling them to work for a smaller salary. The result is the economy moves and productivity resumes. Soon there are more people paying taxes. Americans with secure jobs spend far more money than the idle existing on entitlements. The wrong way is the Socialist way. Taxes are increased against employers and workers, sending more to the unemployment lines where they surrender to and become addicted to entitlement programs. Productivity stops dead and Socialism flourishes. Barack Obama wants to permanently establish Socialism in America but can only do that...

Chicago, IL —Today federal Judge James Zagel threatened former IL Governor Rod Blagojevich not to in anyway implicate or suggest that Barack Obama and his inner circle were not called by the government for nefarious reasons. The judge told defense lawyers, “If you start down that path, you will regret it.” The defense sought a “missing witness” jury instruction on the likes of Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel along with political fixers, Tony Rezko and Stuart Levine . The defense wanted the jury to be told the government did not call those witnesses because it would have hurt their case. The whole trial surrounded Barack Obama’s senate seat. It’s no secret that Obama wanted it filled by his friend Valerie Jarrett who is a Senior Whitehouse Advisor today. The defense was never allowed to explore or expose that crucial part of the story or call witnesses inside the Whitehouse. Judge Zagel will be expecting a Presidential elevation to the Seventh circuit court of Appeals for his hel...

There are lingering questions on the origin of Barack Obama.   The questions have been never been answered and all efforts to expose the records to sunlight have been stonewalled. There is a mountain of evidence that indicates Obama was a foreign student allowed into the USA on a foreign visa and there's student loan issues. There is also the question of his travel where an American passport simply does not allow entry. Obama’s own paternal grandmother publically proclaimed her pride in her grandson she watched being born in a Kenya hospital. The actual Obama birth certificate does not exist or is under wraps but Hawaiian state generated document does. The validity of that document can only be determined with a real birth certificate. So far Obama has spent over a million dollars to keep the telling records sealed from prying American eyes. The courts have denied standing for plaintiffs suing to challenge Obama’s constitutional qualification as a natural born citizen.  So fa...

Joliet, IL —Retired Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson is suspected of murdering one wife and nearly every gossip monger on earth thinks he’s tied to the mysterious disappearance of his young fourth wife. I’m not a psychic and have no special insight into the plight of these two women. Statistically if these if foul play involved, it’s most often that it’s someone close that’s responsible. That old song, “You Always Hurt The One You Love”, says it all. Police should always begin with those significant others as investigative leads. As for Kathleen Savio , she was at odds with Peterson and understandably wanted every possible financial advantage in her divorce. Historically too many women in that position feel the need to tell anyone and everyone exaggerated horror stories of physical danger and beatings. In only a tiny fraction of these cases is there real danger or injury. It’s nearly always, all about money and after that child custody. There is no clear answer to wha...

Joliet, IL —Prosecutors could not find evidence to support their suspicions that retired Bolingbrook police Sergeant Drew Peterson killed as many as two wives. A lack of any tangible or admissible evidence was no problem for the Will County State’s Attorney because he had a solution. The top prosecutor, James Glasgow took his "solution" of twisting the Bill of rights and allowing hearsay evidence to be used at trial against Peterson straight to the Illinois General Assembly . Suddenly, unlike other accused people Peterson would be denied his right to face his accuser. Convicting Peterson was a much higher priority than preserving the right to a fair trial to these wayward politicians. The new, Drew Peterson Hearsay Law was enacted just for this case. The Illinois legislature also required the trial judge to first determine and rule that one or more witnesses were murdered by Peterson before the trial in order to allow for any hearsay statements. Without a trial a judg...

For the most part cops don’t like citizens with the power to shoot and publish video of their conduct for the entire world to see. Many cops like press attention for the good deeds they do every day and ham it up for reality TV shows like COPS. Dealing with some ghetto kid with a cell phone camera is another matter. These days quality video cameras are very cheap and tiny. Putting video on YouTube is a snap for any fifth grader these days. Videos of police in action become viral and get millions of viewing hits. Your deeds good or bad can be seen all over the world. Motives vary for those shooting video of cops in action. I want and need video for this blog. Getting the video without cops becoming unglued is an art even for me. I rely on my First Amendment news gathering rights. I have no interest in catching cops in compromising positions or causing them difficulties. I do however want to be able to show real pros being proficient under difficult conditions. Getting caught withou...

The United States Supreme Court in two landmark cases( Heller and McDonald ) made it clear that American’s have the right to possess and carry arms. They have applied the Second Amendment to every state and local jurisdiction. That means people arrested for simply carrying or possessing firearms, knives and other weapons in common usage are engaged in constitutional protected activity There are some 25,000 laws on the books and many of them are now unenforceable. Those people wrongfully arrested now have an open door at every Federal District courthouse in America to file lawsuits claiming a violation of their Civil Rights under USC:1983. The individual arresting officers all have a real risk of personal liability! Indemnification by their employer may not be allowed in many cases. The federal courts can be expected to issue injunctions order awards for damages and attorney's fees. Politicians like Richard M. Daley and the police chiefs they appoint will offer their cops up like...

Chicago, IL —Perhaps it’s because taxes skyrocketed during a period of lavish spending, corruption and waste. Maybe it was that clandestine midnight raid to demolish the historic Meigs Field Airport on the lakefront or parking meter fiasco? Possibly it was because of the failed effort to turn the Olympic Games into a massive and unprecedented extortion and racketeering enterprise. Could it have been his un-American stand on Chicagoan’s right to self-defense that has put Mayor Richard M. Daley’s popularity in the toilet? I know Daley miscalculated and misread Chicagoan’s desire to have a meaningful way to defend themselves, families and businesses with firearms. Perhaps the city should have conducted a poll on the issue rather dictating an unconstitutional ban. Dictators have never been big on polling their peons. The Mayor and aldermen are quite happy that they and no other citizens can carry firearms lawfully. These guys are so insecure they don’t want law abiding Chicagoans to ...