Posted on 01/14/2021 3:19:46 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
CHICAGO — Most Chicago cops don’t talk to reporters. They don’t trust politicians. And they certainly have a lot of opinions.
It’s why for the past 15 years the “Second City Cop” police blog has been must-read for many Chicagoans who want to have a better understanding about crime and justice in their city.
It’s also why the blog has bene a thorn in the side of police brass for years and there have been various attempts to identify the operator.
When the chronicle of cop life disappeared from public view on the internet a few days ago some took to social media concerned that “big tech” had pulled the plug.
“We have taken no action,” a spokesperson for Google, which owns the Blogspot platform used by Second City Cop told WGN. “We see that the blog is still live though the readership access is ‘private.’”
(Excerpt) Read more at wgntv.com ...
I am so going to miss SCC blog.
I am going to miss them as well. They have always been one of my “must read” sites.
GAB looks like it is performing better today. The ramp up of new users made the site pretty much unusable for days.
“Even HE confessed last night that he thinks Biden legit won, yes there was major cheating, but not enough.”
Your husband needs to realize the point is we don’t know if the fix was enough to throw the election because no one of consequence is allowed to question the integrity of the election so no investigation of those circumstances is legitimate (in the conventional wisdom) and hence none will ever take place. Which means that every election from here on out is likely to be subject to the same fix.
Elections are practically meaningless in the city of Chicago, and most Chicagoans know that. Elections are trending to meaningless in the state of California, and most Californians will soon realize that. And that’s where we’re heading as a country - welcome to the one-party paradise.
Ping. Especially to message # 3.
Try again next week.
I will add that Gab runs it's own servers and cannot be shut down by anyone.
I am, too.
You might point out to him that unappealing and boring Joe Biden got more votes than Barack Obama did in the predominantly black cities of Philadelphia, Detroit and Atlanta.
The fact that Joe Biden massively beat Barack Obama in the vote count is self evident proof of fraud.
Joe Biden did not get more votes than Barack Obama. The idea is ridiculous.
What the hell are you talking about?
"Well, this was certainly a long time coming. Fifteen years, over 22,000 posts, almost two million comments and God knows how many attempts to silence us. But it might finally be over…at least this version of it.Over the weekend, we received information from a contact at Google that internal chat/e-mails led them to believe that certain precautions we had taken over the years had been breached by Google. We had gotten similar warnings from others in the past, and we dealt with or ignored them as the situation warranted. But this one was different. And this one – on the heels of Big Tech’s wholesale attack on the President, Parler and center-right to right-leaning authors, politicians and voices – pointed to a countdown that had far less time than we had thought. Most likely, far less time than you think, too. The blacklisting has begun, even if you won’t see it. You should – the wholesale abandonment of the President, the denunciations, the, “I wasn’t really with him” self-serving statements. Sound familiar? It should…if you have any recollections of the show trials behind the Iron Curtain, in Southeast Asia, in assorted Middle East kleptocracies."
I challenge you to give me a coherent message out of that blather.
They ceased making their blog public because "we received information from a contact at Google that internal chat/e-mails led them to believe that certain precautions we had taken over the years had been breached by Google. "
I read this as meaning that google bitches revealed information that would identify them.
Google saying that they took no action against the blog is a misdirection. They took no official action in sanctioning the blog, but they let their piece of sh*t employees deliberately leak information that makes it possible for the blog's enemies to identify them.
You may not be aware of the British blog "Night Jack", but a similar thing happened to it. It was a blog written by a British police officer, and it said a lot of things that the authorities in Britain did not like.
It was very well written and very insightful, but when the officer who was writing it was identified, he had to shut it down and he had to make abject apologies to everyone whom he offended.
So you simply couldn't grasp what that "blather" was saying? I really didn't think I would need to explain it to you. I thought it was quite self evident what that "blather" was saying.
Google was abusing their power again.
OK. Where's your evidence for this?
And where did the blog's enemies disclose their identities?
This is a serious charge and I'd like some confirmation that it's not just blather.
And where did the blog's enemies disclose their identities?
I'm not in that loop. I doubt the person that is, wants any contact. I think they are trying to stay out of the view of powerful Chicago politicians/underworld types.
This is a serious charge and I'd like some confirmation that it's not just blather.
Well what we know is that the blog has either shut down or gone fully private. No doubt you can come up with a benign reason why a Chicago police blog that was pissing off a lot of Chicago officials might have gone dark, but I think the statement purportedly made by the blogger is good enough for me.
There is plenty of other evidence that google is dirty. They have no problems embracing and aiding China's fascism.
Obviously.
Gab could still be shut down by DNS manipulation, address blocking on backbone routers, DOS attacks, etc.
A great read regarding SCC.
Second City Cop Addresses Chicago
April 21, 2021
Florian Sohnke
Administrators of popular Chicago blog emerge to deliver some great thoughts and observations
Two months. We could regale you with stories about what we’ve been doing the past sixty days, but rest assured, you’d be bored pretty darn quick. Suffice it to say we’ve been busy. Some good, some bad, some truly sad, but busy. Life goes on until it doesn’t.
We’ll get to the question everyone is asking shortly.
In the meantime, how about that Groot? Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse, Groot goes out, makes things infinitely worse, and then blames...the Police!
Two more suicides while we’re in limbo – nothing from the Groot and worse, a canned e-mail from Brownie. Did you know that after the suicide in 019, not a single member of the Command Staff showed up at Roll Calls for at least three days? Including the District Commander. But they care. Really. They tell us so in e-mails and e-learning videos.
Four cops shot in a matter of days – no condemnation from the political structure. Almost like they’re scared to show even the tiniest bit of support for the men and women in blue, lest the suspiciously dormant “rioters” notice them.
And now a dead 13-year-old gangbanger. How do we know he’s a gangbanger? Social media pictures of him flashing gang signs. Tattoos noted in the coroner report and the “eyebrow lines” shaved in. The announcement (that actually made the media) that the gang would be targeting unmarked squad cars and the cops riding within – would they do that for a non-gangbanger? (Hint: No.) Can anyone reading tell us exactly when a 13-year-old is allowed to be outside at 0230 hours with a firearm? We know the assorted caucuses in Springfield are busy rolling back all sorts of laws and passing new ones, but we don’t recall this one sneaking out of committee. Did Pritzker sign something the night before?
And there’s Groot, the f#$%ing “mayor” of Chicago, sympathizing with the “mother” who didn’t know her son was missing for two days, didn’t even report him missing for three, and identified the body in the morgue five days after the shooting. That’s “mother of the year” material right there.
Brownie was worse, posting an e-mail to everyone where he expressed exactly ZERO concern for the mental well-being of the Officer involved, who was placed into the unfortunate situation of responding to a “Shots Fired” call, and being quick enough to arrive on-scene in time to actually on-view someone with a gun. End result? Cops are wrong for engaging in....foot pursuits. That’s the message, loud and clear. They’ve already all but banned vehicle pursuits, so now chasing anyone on foot is to be regulated, monitored and banned.
Crimesha has relegated her entire office to being a criminal’s BFF. If you follow the CWB blog (still a daily read for us) a number of articles aren’t just about criminals out on “affordable bails” that are shooting and killing rivals along with a few innocent bystanders – it’s about rapists who should be on electronic monitoring not even showing up to be lo-jacked, and then going out and raping again. Personally, there ought to be a bracelet of C-4 wrapped around their waist and detonated if they so much as approach a woman, but Crimesha seems happy to have them just out raping again.
You know what happens when cops can’t even foot chase? We’ve seen it on a daily basis with vehicle chases – you get a ton more of them because the criminal knows that (A) the cops aren’t chasing and (B) there’s no penalty for fleeing. No foot chases? Get ready for a massive upswing (or more massive upswing) in shoplifting, thefts, muggings and robberies.
Not only that, but they will almost all be armed. As in ready to visit violence on anyone who resists. As in bodies are going to stack up, because they know cops cannot engage in a foot pursuit. If you’re paying attention, you know it has already begun.
This part is darkly amusing – you know who is suffering quite a bit in Chicago? Minority mothers, whose kids are being raped, shot, mugged and murdered (check the HeyJackass.com stats page). And who’s in charge around these parts? Groot, Crimesha, Prickwrinkle – three minority mothers, whose “catch-and-release” policies, along with zero-bail initiatives, downgrading criminal acts (without legislative action) and anti-police support have led to the biggest shooting and killing tallies since 2016.
And a new crisis is on the horizon that the media hasn’t even touched on for some strange reason:
We still get e-mails from coppers with all sorts of info, hoping we will return and use it one day. Like the Academy. How many recruits are in the Academy right now? Many hundreds? One hundred? Try under 50.
And how many are in the hiring pipeline? Supposedly, after scouring the last THREE hiring lists for any warm body that washed out of pre-testing, over one-thousand letters and e-mails were sent out to take the Power test. How many showed up? About 70. One-third failed.
The FOP has the retirement numbers for Jan/Feb/Mar and there are hundreds. Literally hundreds....and not even 100 in the pipeline.
Anyone know why the media isn’t covering this? After all, Groot is “saving” millions in salary costs. “Savings” that will be dwarfed by overtime costs during the killing season on tap. Any reporters out there looking to make some waves, or is that illegal now? Or “undocumented” in the parlance of the current administration.
In any event, the BIG question....is the blog coming back? And again, we can only say, “Maybe.” We want to bring it (or something similar) back so that cops have somewhere to vent and participate in a “give-and-take” conversation. We don’t want to have the site reliant on the goodwill of the tech giants who have proven since the election that they have no qualms about attacking and silencing conservative thoughts, voices and anything that disrupts the current narrative. Our security is paramount in all of our calculations, and that means no obvious trail back to our people. Anonymizers and cut-outs are of limited use in the age of big tech. We are trying though.
Many thanks to the Contrarian for letting us camp out here and waste their electrons for a little while to touch base with everyone. In closing, from someone far wiser than we: “You aren’t here to save society...you are here to document the downfall, one RD number at a time.” This is what they want...nay, demanded.
Stay safe,
SCC
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/second-city-cop-addresses-chicago
Thanks for posting this.
Chicago: crime stats...
Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 178
Shot & Wounded: 804
Total Shot: 982
Total Homicides: 190
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