That Racially Charged Chicago case is beginning this week with jury selection.  This is my take on this mess.

The official star of the CTA Police In Chicago, the Chicago Transit Authority best known as the CTA once had its own police department.  There were about 100 male cops that were called, CTA dicks.   They were trained and armed to deal with the muggers, sex offenders and fare jumpers that always plague public transit.  There was a slight problem.  Since they wore plain clothes and were a predominantly white group they were choice targets of roving groups of black criminals.    The CTA dicks were sending more thugs to the hereafter then any police agency in the state of Illinois including Chicago cops.  Most of these shootings were somehow magically kept out of the news!  The vast majority of the thugs killed by the CTA dicks were career felons.  Others were youngsters just beginning their lives of crime.   The bogus screams of racism and murder by cops became a PR nightmare.  So in the early 1970s they put a...

Chicago, IL- -Chicago cops are represented by the FOP as their collective bargaining agent.  They have lost more ground in recent years for their membership.  The city’s politicians have stolen, squandered and otherwise mismanaged Chicago’s revenue for decades creating a public safety funding nightmare.   Chicago is the current murder capital of the United states and in the last nine months despite gun bans and draconian restrictions over 3,000 people have been shot here. Nearly a decade ago with bloggers popping up Second City Cop was Born.  The site is hosted allegedly by a cop who has since retired. He or she has remained anonymous avoiding the wrath of angry police bosses and politicians.    Second city has done well in calling out misguided management, biased police related media stories and corruption.  In many cases SCC has criticized the FOP for lack of leadership or courage in their representation of cops.  In Short SCC ha...

Chicago, IL —It was a typically hot summer Chicago day in July of 1955 when a troubled 16 year-old Ron Dean was detained in the Shakespeare District lock-up.    He wanted out and found a can opener in his cell.   With a little luck he was somehow able to open the cell door.   Dean wandered out to the booking area and found the unoccupied desk of the lock-up keeper, Chicago police officer Albert Brown , 57.   In the desk he found Brown’s loaded service revolver.   Officer Brown surprised Dean who then shot and critically wounded the cop. Dean was able to flee the station and Brown was removed to the Alexian Brothers Hospital where he died some ten days later.   Two days later Dean was spotted at the North Avenue Beach where he was arrested. Brown was a juvenile and paid the low price juveniles paid for murders.   Dean was given his freedom perhaps much earlier than any cop killer would deserve. I hate cop killers and have attended an...

NYT Reporter Julie Bosman lives at 5620 N. Wayne Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60660!   Ferguson, MO —With outright lies and massive race baiting from the Whitehouse down to the sewers of Ferguson this was an obvious effort to ignite a Race War.  The media could not stop exploiting the shooting death of robbery suspect and thug, Michael Brown.  Leave it to yet another dying publication; The New York Times to publish Officer Darren Wilson’s  private residence information.  The enterprising reporter behind this was a Chicago based reporter, Julie Bosman .  Bosman’s intent was obvious; she wanted serious harm to come to Wilson and his new wife.  Her editor facilitated this stupidity.   There was never public benefit to the story.  Perhaps the goal was to later report on the arson and murders of the young Wilson couple. Needless to say the Wilson’s had to abandon their home for their very lives.  In a turn of events ...

Chicago, IL—FOP Lodge 7 has failed miserably in the past to properly represent the men and women of the Chicago police Department .  The leadership of the FOP has been bedding down with city politicians and a couple of really lame appointed police superintendents. We can only guess what the tradeoffs have been. The department is rapidly shrinking and the position of police officer grows more dangerous by the hour.   Pension funds have been mismanaged, stolen or otherwise compromised.   Officer’s retirement funding is in grave danger as bankruptcy looms. The only real source for news about the matters that affect police officers come from bloggers.   The Second City Cop Blog is the primary source of news cops need to know.   The downside is that the some of the blog content creator/s are anonymous.   Publishing the truth about mismanagement, waste and corruption is hazardous to any working officer.   The FOP should take on a role of reporti...