the beat goes on.....

Mayor elect LORI LIGHTFOOT learned a lesson over the holiday weekend when, despite 1500 extra police officers being on duty, the members of the concrete jungle went crazy and shot 68 of their own but continued with their bad marksmanship by only killing six.
YOU CANNOT CONTROL THE JUNGLE!

Take the sobbing mother of seven who mourns the loss of one of her brood for the tv cameras and cries out against the violence, a quick background check on her reveals that she grew up in the hood, ran with the gangs, has an arrest record and is known to NEVER CO-OPERATE WITH THE POLICE when violence happens in her neighborhood.

I said it before and now once again: These uneducated people live by a violent code, one whose credos are "survival of the fittest" and "snitches get stitches" so the general population won't help the investigations which leaves criminals on the street forever (until they get whacked by an up & comer).

I feel sorry for police superintendent EDDIE JOHNSON, who is a fine officer and a good administrator and an even better human being but he won't survive lightfoot's term and he'll soon announce his retirement so she can bring in her "hand picked" person.
and that person will also fail if the priority is to tame the jungle.
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WOW! the girls had a tremendous weekend! No, not the obnoxious and poorly behaved women's soccer team but rather, for the first time, girls 11-17 were allowed to march with the boy scouts in the annual 4th of july parades.  Since February, 20,000 girls have signed up to be members of SCOUTS BSA, formerly know as simply boy scouts. it's not co-ed and the females have their own troops (2500 new ones this year) but it's a start and have you heard a peep about the girls being allowed to join? neither have i.
good for them
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and sincere CONGRATS to the U.S. women's team for winning the gold.  they've established a dynasty over the last twenty years and are the gold standard in the sport. but their behavior? ugh. the ironic part is that most of them don't like donald trump but then they act like him by dogging the teams they've defeated. bring back old school, where you win the game, shake their hands and shut up.
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Presidential candidate JOE BIDEN apologized for his stupid remarks of a few weeks ago and he did it in south carolina. that took guts but is the horse already out of the barn?
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newest way to ruin your summer? rent an electronic scooter from the city of chicago. In the first two weeks, just 6 city hospitals reported 21 injuries and four of those needed surgery. i hate this idea because with potholes and people wearing ear buds and crazy traffic, it's a recipe for disaster. i vote no.
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and RIP to a long time friend of mine who passed away on saturday after a long fight with cancer. HELEN TODD was 92 years old and the mother of JAN TODD LOSSON, my friend from the police department. Helen was always very nice to me (and everyone else for that matter) and could talk your ear off when you visited her house and we constantly laughed about that because her late husband LEON rarely said a word but you couldn't meet two nicer people. Godspeed, Helen and say hello to Leon for me.
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adios for now