Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
More than 2 years after Mayor Brandon Johnson shut down ShotSpotter, Chicago still has no replacement.
Overnight, two critically wounded shooting victims appear to have waited 8 minutes for someone to call 911 on a block once covered by the system.
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Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
To my fellow Democrats and Americans, this is why I want JB Pritzker gone.
He hit us with 63 tax and fee hikes since 2019. That’s about $86 billion extra taken from families and businesses. Doubled the gas tax from 19 cents to 38 cents and locked it to inflation forever so it just keeps going up. Seven of his eight budgets broke spending records, top one hit $55.9 billion. Illinois got the highest tax burden in America now, 53% higher than the national average. Highest combined state and local taxes and highest cell phone taxes too.
Truth in Accounting gave us an F on finances, worst unfunded pensions in the country. A Chicago taxpayer is sitting on about $79,500 in combined state and city debt. He signed a pension sweetener for Chicago cops and firefighters that adds like $11 billion more by 2055. Chicago’s pensions got over $50 billion in promises and only $14 billion in assets. We still got the lowest credit rating of any state.
He barely vetoes anything, under 1%, just 29 vetoes on almost 3,500 bills. Signed every single bill in the 2026 session, 395 of them. Promised to veto those partisan gerrymandered maps then signed them anyway. While he’s been in office 11 former state lawmakers pleaded guilty or got convicted, including Madigan on racketeering. No real ethics reform.
About 275,000 people left Illinois in his first term and took $35 billion in income with them. We’re on pace to lose a congressional seat after 2030. Private sector job growth basically nothing at 0.1%. Ranked 43rd in the country.
During COVID he dropped 119 executive orders. Extended the emergency 42 times and ruled by decree for 1,155 days, longer than 49 other states. Schools ranked 43rd for actual in-person learning. Auditor General found $5.24 billion in improper unemployment payments, $2.8 billion of that just gone to identity theft and never coming back.
Chicago Tribune linked him to Bahamas trusts that may have ducked millions in taxes while he was raising taxes on the rest of us. Cook County Inspector General said his family pulled toilets out of their Gold Coast mansion to get a $331,000 property tax break. His name came up on Blagojevich’s wiretaps too.
He’ll say 8 balanced budgets, 12 credit upgrades, bills backlog cleared, $2 billion rainy day fund. Those “balanced” budgets needed $86 billion in new taxes. The backlog got cleared with federal COVID money. That rainy day fund is nothing next to $90 billion in debt and the worst pension mess in America.
Elections coming. Read the receipts then go vote. We trying to fire JB Pritzker, man. This guy gotta go. That’s all we asking.
Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
Two critically injured shooting victims, including a 15-year-old, waited 8 minutes for someone to call 911 this morning.
They were on a block that used to be covered by ShotSpotter.
The mayor is still dragging his feet on filling the void he created.
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Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
Stacy Davis Gates just got a raise from $180K to $250K as IFT president. Add the $195K she already takes from the CTU and she’s at $445K.
She lectures everyone else about equity and “the struggle,” then gives herself a nearly 40% raise.
The struggle is real. Just not for her.
H/T @MaryAnnAhernNBC
Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
The man shot and killed by an FBI agent near Pilsen on Monday evening...
• had just shot at people in a homeless encampment
• was in the country illegally
• had an outstanding felony warrant
...according to the feds and court records
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Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
The same people whining about "billionaires buying elections" spent over 15,000,000 trying to buy elections.
The @CTULocal1 isn't a labor union. It's a Super PAC.
Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s con game continues into its fourth budget.
If Mayor Johnson’s budget is approved, it means his tax and fee increases in office amount to $1.3 billion while his school board has raised property taxes another $857 million.
The burden imposed by Johnson’s tax and fee increases are not on rich corporations, billionaires and millionaires as he claims. It falls on city residents, regardless of income, and on city businesses of all sizes regardless of their income or profits.
Even his so-called progressive spending agenda side is a shell game.
Despite all his big promises, the Mayor has only reopened 3 mental health centers, built only 500 affordable housing units, has barely returned the summer jobs program to pre-COVID levels and his vaunted mental health initiatives has seen a 70% drop in the number of responses.
The Mayor’s big con game continues!
Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
About two DOZEN businesses were burglarized in an overnight spree across the North Side.
Restaurants near Clark and Fullerton were especially hard hit.
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Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
The Candlelight Vigil is a heartfelt tribute to the 608 fallen Chicago Police Department officers who made the ultimate sacrifice. This year, we continued to honor the memory of our fallen officers and their families, who carry on their legacies.
Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
More than 2 years after the mayor shut down ShotSpotter, Chicago still has no replacement.
Last night, a pregnant woman struggled for 3 minutes to tell 911 she’d been shot on a block once covered by the system.
cwbchicago.com/2026/10/pregn…
Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
Must be election year!
After delaying his promised replacement of ShotSpotter that was conveniently ended right after the 2024 Democratic Convention, Mayor Johnson’s is going to test a new gun shot detection system in six neighborhoods previously served by ShotSpotter.
Too late for at least 94 gunshot victims who had no 911 calls made or delayed calls that hindered a timely emergency response. At least 57 or 60% of died. This is three times the fatality rate of other gunshot victims across the city time.
The Mayor and supporters called ShotSpotter racist despite the fact that over 80% of the over 100 lives ShotSpotter is estimated to have saved and the 57 lives lost when the Mayor discontinued ShotSpotter were 80% Black.
Mayor Johnson’s elimination of ShotSpotter cost Black lives!
Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
A Blue Line robbery suspect, AWOL from another CTA attack case and wanted in 3 counties, is finally in custody.
Chicago cops caught him after CTA passengers complained because he was smoking crack on the train.
Yes, he was on electronic monitoring.
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Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
Play it again, Brandon.
As details begin to seep out, Mayor Johnson’s budget is revealed to be a rehash of his 2026 budget.
Johnson will once again try to convince us he is taxing “big corporations” and “protecting working families,” but his budget like the last does neither.
Here are some immutable truths about the 2027 budget:
• The proposed jobs killing $25 per-employee head tax is laid on large businesses even if the company does not record a profit.
• The already nation leading transaction tax will rise to 20% to the cost to any business or individual who accesses computer services.
• Johnson will add another $285 million in property taxes from TIF’s to the $300 million increase in property taxes already approved by his controlled school board.
• Despite Johnson’s “tax-the-rich” rhetoric, Chicago residents could face several other new fees and taxes if the mayor’s budget is passed.
None of what the mayor is proposing will require billionaires and millionaires to pay their “fair share.”
Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
Nineteen cars stolen in two weeks across Fulton Market and West Town.
CPD says the crimes are related — but they haven't said how the thieves took them.
Key fob duplicators are one leading possibility.
cwbchicago.com/2026/10/polic…
Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
This is another perfect example of the collective failure of official leadership in Chicago.
CPD receives a call of a man with gun.
10th District officers arrive and carry out a search.
Residents harass CPD.
Until lawmakers stop depicting CPD as the neighborhood bully, residents will continue refuse to cooperate with and hound police.
Video: @chiccrimechaser.
Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
"At a time when they're waiting in lines for food."
What a crock.
Predictably, the mayor is lying when he portrays tens of thousands of Chicago residents standing on street corners holding begging bowls.
There is a raft of federal programs to help the impoverished: SNAP, WIC, School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program, Summer EBT and Summer Food Service Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program.
On top of these handouts, there is the Commodity Supplemental Food Program for the elderly and the Emergency Food Assistance Program assists food pantries.
For the working poor, they are eligible for food stamps, Medicaid, Section 8 housing, and the EITC.
The mayor is a godawful liar.
Donald N. Muhammad CPO-EPP retweeted
Yes, Mayor Johnson actually said it.
Facing an $882 million budget shortfall, the mayor he will tax corporations that are making “more money ... than they’ve ever made in the history of the world,” including the “free labor period of slavery.”
Didn’t know Chicago had corporations that profited from free slave labor.
Will someone tell our former history teacher turned mayor that Illinois was a free state that sent 256,000 residents to fight in the Union Army. And would someone remind the mayor 35,000 died for the cause of freeing slaves.














