Washington, DC —In our world politics and governments may change but people and their cultures remain the same. As a young man and Army draftee I was part of the post World War Two military occupation that was still around 23 years after the war ended. I saw some amazing things in Germany. They were still repairing war damage but the smiles and friendship the people offered me was immeasurable to this Chicago boy so far from home. Serving in Germany was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Germany had joined NATO and we were all part of the common defense against the totalitarian Soviet regime. In thousands of homes were pictures and tapestries of our President John F. Kennedy . Kennedy endeared himself to the German people with his famous, “Ich bin ein Berliner!” speech. The German people accepted me as one of them. I went out of my way to learn and think in the German language. My host country shared their food, culture, hopes, dreams and lives with me. Fun was g...

Washington, DC —They were the Gangbusters, the brave government agents that chased bank robbers, across state lines. They created a nationwide intelligence operation to deal with all manner of crime and created a huge database of criminals, stolen property and crime statistics. they were the FBI . The former director, J. Edgar Hoover went out of his way to court public opinion and Hollywood in a massive public relations move that constructed a rock solid image. Agents were large males educated as lawyers and accountants. There was no room for affirmative action in an agency that seemed to seek Arian perfection. The FBI has always been about image rather than substance anyway. Hoover died and the kinder, gentler FBI evolved with a new Metrosexual makeup attitude and demeanor. They also were given loads of new jurisdiction over street crime once reserved for local police. Gone was the image created by the bureau’s founder. The new FBI seems to score their convictions when people int...

Chicago, IL - As former Illinois Governor Rod Blagovejich is being tried for political corruption involved with Barack Obama’s former senate seat Pat Fitzgerald is doing fancy footwork protecting the man that held him over in his job as top Northern Illinois federal prosecutor. Fitzgerald would have been tossed with the rest of the Bush political trash except that he owned Obama though wiretapped phone conversations. Fitzgerald holds the keys to the Whitehouse and Obama has no choice but to give the crafty Fitzgerald anything he wants. I’d love to see Fitzgerald’s Swiss bank account balance right about now. Fitzgerald’s arrest of Blagovejich and prosecution has seen the cover-up of evidence because only select portions of the intercepted phone calls were released in the court discovery routine process. Of course there would be a potential fat reward for any federal judge that would protect the man who could appoint him to a higher judicial office. It’s doubtful that the covered up ...

Chicago, Il --For the third time in three weeks a banned handgun was used to shoot a felon during the commission of a violent crime! It was just after 1:00 PM today when an armed robbery was attempted at the Fullerton Pawners , 5900 W. Fullerton by at least three suspects. The unidentified pawnshop owner opened fire on the robbers killing one and it’s believed he may have wounded a second. Police are intensively searching for the other two robbers at this hour. It was just yesterday when Chicago police superintendent, Jody “J-Fled” Weis was parroting the philosophy of his boss, Mayor, Richard M. Daley. Within the next three Mondays the United States Supreme court will tell the world about the lack of legitimacy of Chicago’s Gun Ban. Most legal experts agree the ban will end for good. Again, the law passed by the Illinois Legislature after the Wilmette, case where Hale DeMar shot a home invader will block the prosecution of the store owner for passion of a banned handgun. It looks l...

Los Angeles, CA —I feel nauseous and begin to gag as I watch those Steve Posner and Meg Whitman campaign commercials. They both slam the other for being too Liberal as they run in the Republican primary for Governor. They both promise to be the Conservative solution when they’re both pretenders more in line with Barack Obama than anything Conservative. They are both well established gun rights haters that love big progressive government. Neither are worthy of holding office in America. They’re masquerading as conservatives to fool the not so sophisticated California voters who don’t know any better. These two are much more in tune with either the Loony left California Democrats or Communists. The best man for the job and most Conservative is former Governor Jerry Brown, a Liberal Democrat that’s not been a gun control zealot. He is the most honest of the candidates and has not pretended to be something he’s not. My guess is that billionaire Meg Whitman will get the Republican no...

Chicago, IL —While growing up in the Windy City I noticed that our top four Newspapers (Yes, there were four) used their power to influence elections. I felt this was a conflict of interest since they also reported on political scandals. They problem was that they only gave negative press to candidates they did not agree with. Mayor Richard J. Daley was nothing like his pathetic and worthless son, Richard M. Daley who reigns over Chicago courtesy of his entitlement addicted majority. The elder Daley was a fiscal conservative that was somewhat pro-labor. Old man Daley was satisfied with taxing less and keeping the job market lucrative for all those who wanted to work. The City of Chicago was once a great place to live, work and raise children. The newspapers did not like the Conservative Daley and on Election Day, provided newspaper, voter’s guides that would dictate the politically correct candidates to vote for. Of course all four newspapers supported anyone running on a platfor...

I get misguided e-mails and comments particularly from a lot of my younger cop readers about my position on Due Process, Search, Seizure and many other safeguards in our Constitution. Some assail as me as some kind of a Liberal. The biggest detractors from our Bill of Rights are Liberals and Leftists. They want more government power to control Americans. Liberals want to limit free speech claiming it allows for hate. They want to eliminate the ability Americans have to resist dangerous criminals or a fascist government through gun rights. Liberals insist we force Americans to be searched without warrants or probable cause. Liberals want to regulate every breath we take and have a law for every kind of human behavior. Liberals want government to snoop, sniff and search everyone in the name of public safety. They mistakenly believe that Americans should not be trusted and look for every way to over-regulate us. We are no longer In the Land of The free or The Home of the Brave. We’ve ...

Joliet, IL — TMZ.com claims that law enforcement sources said that retired Bolingbrook police sergeant, Drew Peterson blabbed to a fellow inmate at the Will County jail where he dumped the body of his fourth wife Stacy Peterson . They are planning to follow up on the tip of a jailhouse snitch. Guilty or innocent Peterson would be savvy enough to never say anything to some fellow inmate in his lifetime. Of course the large population of marginal and dysfunctional souls in our jails, are always looking for currency to lighten their own legal problems and will tell cops and prosecutors anything they want to hear. What this appears to be is just an effort to taint Peterson’s chances of receiving a fair trial. Jurors often believe that when a weak criminal case is brought against a person that the police have some strong but secret information they can’t share. Nobody wants to believe that our government would charge someone unless they were really guilty. Too often this myth is never ...

I wonder what life would have been like had I taken one of the other roads as a young man. I’ve had a life of excitement most people only dream about. I’ve spent 18 months living in Germany during 1968-70, I visit India on a regular basis and somewhere in between have been back to Europe twice. In hindsight staying in Germany was an attractive option for me since I love that beautiful country and its people. What would have happened if I stayed there? Being a cop, private investigator and investigative TV news producer has taken me to the most monumental criminal cases including the Oklahoma Bombing, The Montana UNBOMB case, The 9/11 attack on America. Death penalty cases and major felony matters along with the theater of the courtrooms have consumed a portion of my life. From observing over 700 autopsies of murder victims to handling body recovery as a patrol officer at the crash of Flight 191 in 1979. I have always been where the action was. I’ve also had heartbreak and trauma inv...

Chicago, IL —For the second time in a week a Chicago resident has defended his home by shooting an intruding felon with a gun outlawed under Chicago’s 30 year-old ban. This time it happened after police were chasing Aaron Marshal l, 26 for fleeing on foot after a traffic stop where narcotics were dropped. Marshall ran and selected a house to break into and possibly hide. Marshall apparently picked the wrong home in the 300 block of North Pine to invade. An unidentified home owner shot Marshall after he’d broken through a window of that house. Marshall suffered a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the left side of his body. He was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital where he’s being treated at this hour. Marshall's criminal background includes a felony drug conviction in 2009 and a 2007 conviction for felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, court records show. Police say Marshall also is a gang member with a lengthy arrest record. Of course Mayor Richard M. Daley has done all he ...

Washington, DC— Barack Obama promised transparency along with a long list of hollow promises he simply made to get elected. He delivered nothing but a trillion dollar pay off to his pals who got him elected. Obama has been running the currency printing presses non-stop, manufacturing money backed by nothing to destroy our economy. The deliberate purpose is to keep this once stable and strong government fully dependent on Socialist nations like china. Our unemployment rate is still in the toilet along with our productivity. Obama’s Bolshevik parallel Czar Cabinet created a Socialized Medicine health care system that will destroy what we had and make things much worse. This is the same Socialism that’s never worked anywhere so how can it work here? Along the way, government appointments are being bartered, bought and sold as this administration commits felony after felony. We are under control of a vast criminal regime that must be stopped at all cost. Socialist governments are alwa...

We Americans like to claim that our children are our most important asset. We send them off to schools we have declared Gun Free Zones. I guess Colorado’s Columbine High School showed just how effective that was. When The Jefferson County Sheriff’s officers finally responded they simply marched around the school waiting for every wounded child to bleed to death rather than to try and stop the killers when they had the chance. Little has changed since then. Our children are really just not that important as you will see below. Here are two videos that show what’s really important in our country. I ask, where is the deserved outrage? Protecting Cash . Protecting children.

We like to think that our system of justice is fair. We like to believe that the police conduct their investigations in an impartial manner and collect the evidence that exonerates as well is damns the accused. That was the ideal but we have strayed sometimes in desperation to skew the process and convict who we think the public wants convicted. Modern investigative techniques and tools such as DNA, surveillance video and the data of credit and debit cards and the cell phones we all carry today exculpates rather than implicates those investigated for serious crimes. Today there is wholesale cheating in evidence collection and inside or crime labs to bring conviction. Fingerprint and DNA evidence has been faked redundantly and the penalties for officials involved are minuscule when compared to the life prison terms and death penalties the victims of evidence fraud face. Every year lazy prosecutors bring to Congress and 50 state legislatures proposed new laws that attack the due process ...

Washington, DC —On any Monday this month, the legitimacy of Chicago’s 30 year-old gun ban will the courts issue. Legal experts overwhelming agree that in view of the earlier Heller case, Mayor Richard M. Daley’s favorite law is doomed. Otis McDonald , pictured above and several other Chicago residents have sought help from the National Rifle association and The Second Amendment Foundation in getting their stolen gun rights returned. Gun control has been finally exposed as a massive failure that has only facilitated and enabled violent criminals. The issue for the court is not whether gun control is effective, good public policy or ineffective. It’s simply about whether our founding fathers meant it when they decreed that, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The silly argument that this was a collective right of state government not the people is now just so much, bogus r...

Washington, DC— Our fallen heroes at Arlington National Cemetery are resting in peace on this somber day because that Communist traitor Barack Obama won’t be desecrating their graves with his appearance. Here is an especially good rendition of Taps for you to remember some special veteran with.

Chicago, IL —Politicians and threats go together. That has never been more prevalent in my lifetime than right now. Politicians are reaching their corrupt greedy fingers in American’s pockets more than ever as turn taxation into extortion and slavery. At the same time despite a solid Supreme Court ruling many politicians still are doing all they can to keep law-abiding people disarmed and unable to defend themselves and families from criminals or a criminal government. Threats are the product of the powerless. They are nearly always hollow and the people making them have little ability to carry them out. Threats are little more than an annoyance. What idiot wanting to kill or hurt someone would give their victim a warning? The target simply could take precautions minimizing the threat. In recent years lawmakers have conjoined the word terrorist to threats and raised their significance. Most threats are considered felony crimes. This is a horrible sign of a very troubling government. Du...

Breaking News ... As I just posted the story sad news came down that the 4'8" TV star had died. Salt Lake City, UT --Today, former child actor, Gary Coleman, 42 is in a coma and on life support after being injured in a fall. His health was already on the ropes after two kidney transplants and ongoing dialysis treatment. He’s suffering from a serious brain injury. Coleman was a cute child star on the TV sitcom Different Strokes. He made money in the millions that his greedy parents wasted on a lavish lifestyle. When he reached adulthood the money all vanished. The child stars of Coleman’s day were nearly all in trouble, using drugs and making horrible choices. Coleman somehow managed to avoid being involved in any drug scandals. Coleman’s star faded as he grew older and settled for low paying commercial work and gigs that offered little. Coleman was rejected by Hollywood as if his talent for comedy was deemed dead. He wound up as a celebrity security guard for a while. Who...

Washington, DC —This sounds very serious doesn’t it. These are despicable crimes that would get any perpetrator many years in a federal prison. Except of course when the criminal conspirators are above the law. Wait a minute! I thought nobody in America is above the law? But clearly some are above the law. President Barack Obama , and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano lead a long list of public officials that have gone out of their way to conspire and violate every United States Immigration Law. They have done everything possible to prevent the arrest and deportation of immigration criminals trespassing on our soil and stealing those entitlements reserved for citizens and legal immigrants. . These criminals must be arrested and brought to justice since their crimes are much greater than those of the trespassers themselves. Can we pick and choose what laws we want to obey? Apparently you can if you’re able to simply and lawlessly dictate to the U.S. Attorney and other...

UPDATE: 27 May 2010 No charges against elderly man who killed home invader Chicago police News affairs says there will be no charges against the 80-year-old man who shot and killed a burglar who had broken into his West Side home. Police questioned the homeowner for several hours after the early Wednesday morning shooting but released him without comment. Family members and neighbors said the man was a Korean War veteran and his 83-year-old wife is a retired nurse. They said the couple have been married about 60 years and have lived in the same house on the 600 block of N. Sawyer Ave. for 40 years. The man, his wife, and their 12-year-old great-grandson were all unharmed. Chicago, IL —An 80 year-old Korean war veteran defended his elderly wife and 12 year-old grandson from a career criminal this morning that had invaded their home. The robber fired a shot at the victim who returned fire killing him. The dead man was wearing a mask, and had socks over his hands to prevent leaving any ...

Chicago, IL —High profile Chicago lawyer Joel Brodsky announced exclusively to Crimefile News that he’d take on the case of the 85 year-old Garfield Park man who killed a home invader this morning without charge if he’s arrested for violation of the city’s 30 year old gun ban. Brodsky came forward after reading this blog saying, "Self defense isn’t just a right, it’s a duty. If this man is prosecuted for saving his own life it’s not just a travesty, its justice turned inside out ". Brodsky is the lawyer representing retired Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson on murder allegations. Update: The Victim’s age is now confirmed now at 80. He turned 80 last April. Earlier story .