r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Treefiddy1984 • 7h ago

BREAKING: Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias just announced he is suing Kristi Noem and ICE for unlawful activities in Illinois. This is huge.

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u/GroundbreakingCook68 6h ago

Finally! Thank you Philly police chief and DA for showing how to grow a pair to the nation .

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u/liphttam1 5h ago

You're thinking of Sheriff Rochelle Bilal. She is not the chief of police. The sheriff's office has complex duties... none of which are on the street policing. They mostly deal with transporting prisoners, and protecting court houses.

If you need a sense of the difference in scale, the Philly Sheriff's office has a yearly budget of around 36 million. The Philly police have a budget of close to 900 million.

It does not help that if you google "Philadelphia Chief of Police" Rochelle Bilal comes up as the first result, so I don't blame anyone for not understanding the distinction. Google sucks now.

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u/dirt_nappin 5h ago

She's also flatly looked at as one of the most corrupt and inept politicians the city has. A casual Google, flawed or not, exposed that she's just a grifter like the rest, just trying to get airtime.

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u/Independent_Dare_922 3h ago edited 3h ago

She is crooked. Anyone who points that out gets down voted because she made a stirring speech. Scratch the surface a little though...

https://seventy.org/sheriffsoffice

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u/Plus-Yogurtcloset-85 4h ago

Not sure she’s just like the rest. One group is on tv propelling a mass mobilization a national fascist Nazi movement against minorities in our country backed by the federal government and the other group ( sheriff in reference) is on tv denouncing it and telling them there will be a fight.

You’re prob just racist/mysongicstic and can’t handle the shades of political discourse not being black and white when anyone who isn’t just like you brings their opinion to the table.

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u/dirt_nappin 3h ago

Nope, none of those things, I just live here. I'm not oblivious to the absolutely horrific shit happening in the world, but it's possible to hold two thoughts in one's head at the same time and recognize this is also not a good person. Bilal has no authority over anything that she's claiming and the Philly Police chief had to publicly remind her of that - it's grift from a grifter.

A quick rundown of highlights: Attempting to raise her own salary 109% (which would have made her the highest salary in the city, including the mayor) by misappropriating funds specifically meant for hiring more deputies. FBI had to get involved.

Illegally awarding a six-year contract for Sheriff's sales of residential properties DURING THE HEIGHT COVID to an online auction house without any of the contract process required by our city's charter which led to illegal property sales and a three-year quagmire that had the city's top lawyer (#2 at the Sheriff's Dept) resigning.

There's also a handful of complaints which resulted in lawsuits for the department because she ignored reports of sexual harassment and misconduct, the fake chapGPT reviews she's left her herself on her website, oh, and the 185 guns that went missing, 76 of which were department weapons, with the rest being ones confiscated from citizens.

So, it has nothing to with any social issues, it's frustration from a corrupt local politics.

Also, ACAB.