GOOD GOD! BLOG STOLEN, ALREADY! FUCK! GHOST RECON. WHIRLWIND. DASTARDLY DELAYS DEFEAT. TWIST & SHOUT. STAY DOWN TO EARTH. BOOGIE DOWN. GUZZLER. FAMOUS JO'S FOOD TRUCK. COMPLETELY COVERED. STING. ROCK IT! SEEING NATURE. HERE LIES LOVE. WHERE WORK HAPPENS. LET'S HEAR IT. POST YOUR PIZZA. COOL GUYS FRY BAR. DADDY'S LUCKY CHARM. MARCH MADNESS. BRACKETOLOGY. TROUBLE MAKER. IRISH WEEK. CHICAGO. A DAY WITHOUT A MURDER! CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION! YEAH FOR CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHO ARE GOING FORWARD WITH REFORMS, EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND CREATING TO TIER POLICE FORCE WITHOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, TELLING THEM WHAT TO DO! THE COPS, HAVE DECIDED, TO MOVE FORWARD ON THEIR OWN, DOING WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, TO MAKE LIFE SAFE, FOR EVERYONE IN CHICAGO! THAT'S THE SPIRIT! TOUGH JOB. TOUGH TOWN. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY, WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH . . . THE TOUGH GET GOING! RIGHT ON! ROCK IT! THERE WERE SEVERAL ARTICLES IN THE NEWSPAPER THIS MORNING, THAT GAVE INSIGHT INTO THE DREAM THAT I HAD LAST NIGHT OR EARLY MORNING. YESTERDAY, I CELEBRATED, 1500 BLOGS, 10X WHAT I EVER THOUGHT I WOULD DO WHEN, I STARTED, ALMOST 4 YEARS AGO. SO, YESTERDAY, I DECIDED, I WAS DONE, AND I WAS GOING TO JUST GET UP, WHERE, "THE END" AND BE DONE WITH IT. BUT MUCH LIKE MY DREAM THE OTHER DAY, ABOUT, LECTURING OR SPEAKING ON THE CIA, I HAD A DREAM THAT I WAS, LECTURING OR TRAINING ON THE CONSTITUTION,. MY LOVE AND PASSION. THE THOUGHT CAME WITH IT, THAT, YOU ARE NOT FINISHED. ALL YOU HAVE DONE IS SHOW PEOPLE, HOW CRITICAL THE FEDERAL AND STATE CONSTITUTIONS ARE, BUT YOU HAVE NOT FULLY SHOWED, COPS, ELECTED OFFICIALS, GOVERNMENT WORKERS, EVEN FOREIGN POWERS, JUST HOW THE DOCUMENT WORKS. I ALWAYS FORGET, HOW MUCH, I LEARNED IN LAW SCHOOL, DURING 23 YEARS OF LAW PRACTICE, INCLUDING, ALMOST A FULL CIRCLE OF JOBS, TRAINING, OPPORTUNITIES, EXPERIENCE, AND LEVELS FROM, A VERY BROAD, FOUNDATIONAL BACKGROUND, THAT, IS REALLY TOO VALUABLE TO WASTE, BY JUST, SAYING I AM DONE, AND LEAVING, MANY INTERESTED, IN LEARNING MORE. I AM GOING TO TAKE MORE OF A EDUCATIONAL APPROACH TO THIS NEXT, WHATEVER, OR BLOG TYPES, MAYBE, A BIT MORE FOCUSED ON SPECIFIC TRAINING, RATHER THAN, ENTERTAINMENT AND GENEARL COMMENTS, ON EVERYTHING FROM RELIGION TO LOVE, AND BACK AGAIN. BUT, AS I SEE, POLICE DEPARTMENTS, STRUGGLE WITH FUNDING, FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING, BECAUSE, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, I CAN WRITE ON BLOG AND EDUCATE A WHOLE NATION, A WHOLE WORLD OF COPS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS WITH THIS AMAZING POWER TOOL, WE CALL THE INTERNET! I USED TO TRAIN COPS AND PROSECUTORS, SO THIS IS OLD SCHOOL, TO ME, IN SOME RESPECTS, HOWEVER, I WAS GENERALLY, TOPIC SPECIFIC, LIKE TRAINING ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR CHILD AND ELDERLY ABUSE, STRANGER DANGER AND ELDER SCAMS, ETC. SO, MOST OF THIS STUFF IS GOING TO BE, KIND OF OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, DEALING WITH ISSUES, THAT, I HAVE SEEN, OR BEEN IRRITATED WITH, OR WOULD LIKE TO SEE CHANGE, HAVING BEEN THE TARGET, OF POLICE ACTIONS, UNDER, THE PATRIOT ACT, IN MY OPINION, THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO COPS AND CITIZENS ALIKE, BRINGING WITH IT THIS, SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT, POWER TRIPPING, VIOLATION OF RIGHTS, AND CREATING ROGUE COPS, WHO TOOK THE LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS, AND PARTICIPATED IN VIGILANTE JUSTICE, THAT IS JUST NOT OUR SYSTEM, NOR, IS IT WELL RESPECTED AND ENTERTAINED BY THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. LIKE I HAVE SAID, A MILLION TIMES, TO HAVE A WELL ORDERED SOCIETY, WE HAVE TO HAVE AN AGREED UPON, SET OF RULES AND LAWS, THAT WE ALL AGREE TO FOLLOW! THAT LAW HAPPENS TO BE, THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, AND SIMILAR PROVISIONS IN OUR STATE CONSTITUTIONS. LIKE 98% OF THE POPULATION, OTHER THAN, ANARCISTS, TERRORISTS, AND JUST PLAIN LUNATICS, DON'T AGREE TO, SO, THE MAJORITY OF US, AGREE, TO FOLLOW THESE RIGHTS, PROTECTIONS, LIBERTIES, FREEDOMS, PRIVILEGES, ETC., AND IN RETURN FOR THOSE BENEFITS OF CITIZENSHIP, WE ARGREE TO FOLLOW, WELL ESTABLISHED LAWS, THAT ARE FOUNDED IN THESE, VERY BASICS, OF THE LAW. I JUST JOTTED DOWN, SOME IDEAS THAT CAME TO MIND, THAT MAY HELP, ALL COPS, OVERCOME, THE FRAUDULANT, AND DISTORTED, POWERS IN THE PATRIOT ACT, THAT WERE ORIGINALLY, PASSED TO HANDLE TERRORISTS, THAT SOMEHOW, GOT EXTENDED TO AMERICAN CITIZENS, USING EVERYTHING FROM, GORILLA TACTICS, LIKE I.C.E., IS USING RIGHT NOW, GOING INTO COURTROOMS, EVEN RIGHT IN FRONT OF JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS, OTHER ATTORNEYS, TO THEIR SHOCK AND HORROR, AT THE DISRUPTION, AND POTENTIAL, NEGATIVE EFFECT, THIS MAY HAVE ON OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, DEALING WITH 11 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS, THAT WE SHOULD NOT FORGET, MAY BE IN VARIOUS STAGES OF BECOMING CITIZENS, FROM THOSE WITH GREEN CARDS, TO WORK PERMITS, TO RESIDENTS, AND FINALLY, ON TO CITIZENSHIP, WITH, THAT TAKING YEARS! I THINK WE BELIEVE, THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE JUST COMING HERE WITHOUT ANY PERMISSION, OR ORIGINALLY COMING LEGALLY, CHANCING, DEPORTATION, DUE TO FAMILIES, JOBS, STATUS, AND FREEDOMS IN AMERICA. I CAN'T SAY THAT I BLAME THEM! IN SOME OF THE ARTICLES IN READ THIS MORNING, SOMEONE SAID, THAT THE JUDGES CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO STOP, I.C.E., IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF I AGREE WITH THAT. IN COURT, THE JUDGE IS KING, NOT THE COPS, AND INTERFERRING WITH THE JUDICIAL BRANCH, IS CROSSING OVER, INTO A CO-EQUAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT, THAT I WOULD SAY, HAS THE POWER TO KICK I.C.E., OUT OF THEIR COURTROOMS! THIS IS JUST NOT THE PLACE, TIME, NOR EVENT, TO USE TO CHASE DOWN, ALLEGED, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, SOME ARE DACA APPROVED TO STAY IN THE COUNTRY, UNDER, PRESIDENT OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS, MANY CHALLENGED, CONSTITUTIONALLY, AND APPROVED BY THE COURTS, THEREFORE, FOR I.C.E., TO COME IN, DISRUPT COURT PROCEEDINGS, IS JUST PLAIN WRONG AND WILL PREVENT, NUMEROUS, LEGAL AND JUDICAL, PROTECTIONS, THAT, THESE PEOPLE, NEED TO AVAIL THEMSELVES OF, AS IN PROTECTIVE ORDERS AGAINST, SPOUSES, ETC. WE NEED TO TAKE A HOISTIC APPROACH, TO POLICE CAMPAIGNS AND EFFORTS, NOT WRONG IN AND OF THEMSELVES, BUT, SOMETIMES IT IS NOT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING, BUT THE WAY YOU ARE SAYING IT, THAT IS SO OFFENSEIVE, TO THE REST OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. BUT, JUST A FEW, THINGS, I JOTTED DOWN, BY WAY OF, IDEAS, THAT ARE EASY TO START PRACTICING, AND PRACITICE IT TAKES, EVEN WITH PEOPLE WE LOVE, SO FOR COPS ON THE STREETS, IN TENSE SITUATIONS, EVEN HARDER, BUT, I WOULD SAY WORTH IT! YOU = ME. THE CONSTITUTION PROTECTS CITIZENS AND COPS. THINK OF THE COPS THAT IS UNDER MURDER INDICTMENTS FOR THE SHOOTING OF LAQUANE MCDONALD. WE DON'T GUN PEOPLE DOWN IN THE STREETS, WE APPREHEND THEM, TAKE THEM, INTO CUSTODY, IF THERE IS PROBABLE CAUSE THAT THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG, AND RUNNING FROM COPS, FOR DAMNED GOOD REASON, OF LATE, WITH ALL THE UNWARRANTED, SHOOTINGS OF BLACK PEOPLE, SO THAT IS ALMOST THE "REASONABLE BLACK MAN" STANDARD, THAT WILL BE APPLIED, IF THIS GOES TO COURT. SOCIAL MEDICA AND THE FERGUSON EFFECT CAN BE A POSITIVE THING . . . I THINK OF THE FEMALE CHICAGO COPS, WHO HAD SOME MAN, ATTACK HER, BEATING HER, AND SHE PULLED HER GUN, CONSIDERING KILLING HIM . . . AGAIN, THAT IS NOT OUR SYSTEM, AND BEING KNOCKED AROUND, IS NOT NECESSARILY, BEING IN FEAR OF EMINENT HARM, GIVING CAUSE AND REASON, TO SHOOT SOMEONE, EVEN IF THEY ASSAULTED YOU. I THINK IN RETROSPECT, THAT SPLIT SECOND, WHEN THE THOUGHT OF SOCIAL MEDICA, EXPOSING THESE TYPES INCIDENTS, THIS FEMALE COP, IS GLAD, SHE DIDN'T SHOOT! COPS NEED TO BREAK RACIAL AND SOCIAL PROFILING IDEAS AND STEREOTYPES. THIS GETS MANY COPS INTO TROUBLE . . . WE CANNOT ASSUME, THAT, ALL BLACKS ARE CRIMINALS, OR ALL HISPANICS ARE RAPISTS, AND BAD HOMBRES! BECAUSE, THAT JUST IS NOT TRUE, ANY MORE THAN, ALL WHITE DUDES ARE GOOD CITIZENS, AND NOT BAD ASS CRIMINALS! BECAUSE, THEY CAN BE! THE PREAMBLE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, IS NOT A BAD, THING TO HAVE COPS, CITE, EACH MORNING, EVEN POSSIBLY WITH THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE . . . REMINDING, OUR STREET WARRIORS, HEROES IN MANY RESPECTS, THAT, OUR GOAL IS FOR, A MORE PERFECT UNION, DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY, JUSTICE FOR ALL, COMMON DEFENSE, GENERAL WELFARE, AND WE ARE ALL, ON THE SAME TEAM AS AMERICANS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD! THE WORDS WE THINK AND SPEAK, MAKE A DIFFERENCE, ON WHAT WE DO, WHEN FACED WITH A SITUATION, THAT CALLS FOR PATIENCE, UNDERSTANDING, AND YES, EVEN LOVE. COOLER HEADS PREVAIL AND ARE RESPECTED MORE THAN HOT HEADS. I THINK IT MIGHT HELP, TO REMOVE, EMOTIONS, EGO, OUT OF THE EQUATION . . . I DON'T THINK, THAT SAYING, I AM JUST DOING MY JOB, IS A BAD THING, AND MOST OF US, CAN SEE THAT, PISSED AS WE ARE AT GETTING STOPPED, TICKETED, OR QUESTIONED! HOWEVER, WHEN, THERE APPEARS TO BE NOT "PROBABLE CAUSE" FOR THE STOP, OR OTHER ABUSES OF POWER, THAT IS WHEN, PROBLEMS ARISE. I FOUND, IN MY PRACTICE OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE WORK, OR REALLY EVEN IN CIVIL PRACTICE, THAT, IF SOMEONE IS HEARD, GIVEN THEIR RIGHTS, UNDERSTOOD, LISTENED TO, EVEN IF THEY GET IN TROUBLE, ARRESTED, BOOKED OR JAILED, AT LEAST THEY FELT, RESPECTED, AND THAT IS EASIER, TO SAY, THAT IN SPITE OF ME NOT LIKING THIS, I WAS TREATED FAIRLY, BY THE OFFICER! BUT, EVEN IF I LOST IN COURT, A RARE OCCASION, LOL, BUT IF I PRESENTED THEIR CASE WELL, VIGOROUSLY, DEFENDED THEIR ACTIONS AND POSITIONS, THEY WERE HAPPY, AND TOOK THEIR LUMPS! LOOK TO ATTORNEYS, WHO TEACH AND TRAIN, YOU IN THE LAW. I REMEMBER, TALKING TO A COP, A DEPUTY SHERIFF, AND I SAID, I BET SOME OF THE STUFF I SAID, OR GRILLED COPS BUDDIES ON THE STAND, AS WITNESSES, PISSED HIM OFF, AND HE SAID, NO, WE LOVE IT WHEN YOU GO TO COURT, OR WE GET TO LISTEN, BECAUSE WE ALL LEARN SOMETHING AND WE LIKE THAT. HE SAID, HE FELT BAD, HE DIDN'T GET TO GO TO THE SECOND DAY OF A TWO DAY TRIAL. I WAS FLATTERED, TO SAY THE LEAST. ATTORNEYS, CAN PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE, IN FILLING IN SOME OF THE GAPS AND WEAKNESSES IN TRAINING AND GOOD COPS WILL DIG THE INSIGHTS, AND SHOULD, ENCOURAGE ATTORNEYS, LIKE ME, WHO ASSUMED, THAT JUST BECAUSE, I WAS GOING HARD ON OTHER COPS, THAT, HE HATED IT, BECAUSE, HE DIDN'T AND IF HE EVER HAD TO GO TO COURT, HE COULD SEE THE WEAKNESSES IN THE OFFICERS, INCIDENT REPORT, OR TESTIMONY! I NOTICED THAT, IN THE PURGING OF THE 46 FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERALS, APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA, THE ONE FROM, CHICAGO, ALMOST GOT TEARY EYED, BECAUSE, HE WAS TRYING HARD TO TURN, THINGS AROUND FOR THE COPS, AND HAD THE INSIGHTS, TO DO SO! SOMETIMES, PARTY POLITICS, CUTS OFF SOME REALLY GREAT STUFF GOING ON, IN OUR STATES. WE NEED TO LEAVE THE GOOD ONES IN, IF THERE IS GREAT WORK BEING DONE! BUDGETS ARE SMALL, AND TRAINING NEEDS ARE LARGE, SO, WHEN, YOU HAVE AN ATTORNEY, WHO REALLY CARES, HE OR SHE, SHOULD BE, LEFT RIGHT WHERE THEY ARE, AND IF THEY ARE DOING THEIR JOBS, IT SHOULD NOT MATTER IF THEIR BOSS IS A DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN, BECAUSE, LIKE THE GOOD COPS, GOOD ATTORNEYS, JUST DO THEIR JOBS, REGARDLESS OF WHO IS IN POWER! SAME WITH GREAT JUDGES! I WOULD ALSO, SUGGEST, CONTACTING, OTHER COPS JURISDICTIONS, THAT YOU HEAR, HAVE CREATED, GOOD COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS, LIKE LAS VEGAS, THAT MIGHT HAVE DEMOGRAPHICS, CLOSE TO CHICAGO, WHERE COPS WENT INTO THE TOUGHEST AREAS OF THE CITY, THAT NEVER SLEEPS, WITH CHALLENGES, EVEN CHICAGO DOESN'T HAVE, AND THEY TEAMED IN AN HONEST EFFORT WITH, COMMUNITY LEADERS, CLERGY, PARENTS, SCHOOLS, AND IN A HUGE ASS, EFFORT, THEY WERE ABLE TO TURN, WHOLE NEIGHBORHOODS AROUND, THAT WERE FORMERLY CONSIDERED ALMOST TOO DANGEROUS FOR EVEN COPS TO GO INTO, JUST LIKE, GABRINNI GREEN, WAS WHEN, I LIVED IN CHICAGO, 20 YEARS AGO! ANYWAY, I NEED TO GO GET, MY FAVORITE COPY OF A POCKET SIZED, CONSTITUTION AND FASCINATING FACTS, THAT, ALL POLICE DEPARTMENTS CAN GET FREE OF CHARGE, ON THE INTERNET! THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, IS NOT A MYSTERIOUS DOCUMENT, AND JUST ON THE SURFACE, ESPECIALLY, THE FIRST 10 AMENDMENTS, ARE NO MORE THAN A LINE OR TWO, AND COPS WILL IMMEDIATELY, RECOGNIZED, FROM THEIR TRAININGS. I REMEMBER READING THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND I WAS, LIKE, OH, SO THAT IS WHERE, THIS OR THAT COMES FROM. WOW! IT IS AN ENLIGHTENING EXPERIENCE, OR ALL PEOPLE, SO WE CAN ALL BE ON THE SAME PAGE AND TACKLE THESE PROBLEMS TOGETHER, AS COMMUNITIES, TOWNS, CITIES, COUNTIES, STATES AND A NATION! GOD BLESS AMERICA. GOD BLESS OUR COPS WHO KEEP US SAFE! REMEMBER, YOUR JOB, IS TO PROTECT THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE OF YOUR CITIZENS! I WILL DO ALL I CAN TO HELP AND COP SHOP IN THE WORLD, REALLY! IF PARENTS, FAIL TO TEACH AND TRAIN THEIR KIDS, THEN, SOCIETY HAS TO DO THEIR JOB! SO PARENTS, YOU PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE! WE CAN DO THIS CHICAGO. WE CAN DO THIS AMERICA! KISSES, HUGS, LOVES!