http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/ appears to now be blocked.

Technically, its requiring an invite and acceptance to read.   Its not clear to me  if this is a secondcitycop decision/setting or if it is Google placing restrictions on this blogspot content.  There is other police blogspot content that is able to be read.

This is some bullshit. I have been reading that blog every morning for over a decade.

Another important voice silenced.

When i went to read SSC blog this morning I was asked to sign in with a google account. Not going to do it. Searching around trying to find a link to backdoor in came up empty.

SSC foreshadowed that something like this might happen soon several times recently. He/ they also said that they would seek another platform should this one be cancelled.

Please post here IM me if anyone should find out where they may have relocated. I start nearly every day reading SSC blog and one day with out has me missing it badly.

Logging in with a google account does not work anyway.  You just get the not invited message above.

Did find this:

...Access to long-running Chicago police blog is suddenly restricted and a lot of people are asking why?...

https://cwbchicago.com/2021/01/access-to-long-running-chicago-police-blog-is-suddenly-restricted-and-a-lot-of-people-are-asking-why.html

Reddit post:
..."This is only temporary. Word around the district is a few top brasses tried to go through the blog to dox some officers who made some not-so-nice comments so admin made it read-only."...

https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/kv1a6f/second_city_cop_blog_now_invite_only/

EDIT: The twitter account owner is not the same as the blogger.


https://twitter.com/SecondCityCop/status/1348674111460044801

This twitter account is not the author of the blog.   They have posted that on their feed.

Just saw that

Ugh. I’ve been reading it daily for a long time, as well.

If I hear something about a new site, I will post info here.

Secondcitycop was part of my morning routine.
Facinating, funny as hell.
It gave me the chance to see the world through a big city cop's eyes.

https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/statement-from-second-city-cop

Statement from Second City Cop
January 12, 2021FLORIAN SOHNKE

Administrators of popular blog explain decision to shutter website.

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.

Disavowal and re-education is on tap. What Senator McCarthy is remembered for – “Are you now or have you ever been…”  has been twisted, refined (Bake that cake!), and exacerbated (Parler is only the first of many). They don’t want “unity.” They want Compliance and as the last fifteen years have shown, we aren’t really good at compliance. The amount of personal data available to “woke companies” who would deny commerce or service based on beliefs, contributions, investments (not Green enough!), social media posting, employment (cops not welcome here), bumper stickers – Have you heard of Operation Choke Point? Look it up and imagine it drilled down to individual citizens. Orwell’s 1984? It’s here.

In closing, we’d just like to thank a few people:

·         Phil Cline – without you banning us from Department computers, we wouldn’t have jumped from 3,000 visits a day to over 30,000 unique daily visits. You, more than anyone, assisted in our success. Some days it topped 50,000, but we thank you for the ten-fold increase. Too bad you can’t ban the next generation SCC;

·         HeyJackass.com – the only true source of crime numbers. We know you’ll ferret out a few more hidden bodies to put 2020 over 800. We guarantee that they’re out there. Groot has ordered the Department to sit on over 20 of them;

·         CWB blog - you are what reporting should be in Chicago. We don’t know your operation, if it’s phone calls or emails or actual feet on the street, but you do more to create informed citizens than major newspapers and broadcast entities;

·         The Chaplains - Fr. Brandt has done and continues to do God’s work. It is the only police charity we contribute to because we know exactly where every dollar is going. And there isn’t a finer man of G-d alive than Rabbi Wolfe. When we hear he’s in the building, around the District or on a crime scene, we’re getting a handshake and our candy - it’s like a scavenger hunt. The rest are decent people, too. Sorry we only ever got you the $50 from WGN Padre. Maybe others contributed anonymously, but that’s between them and God.

·         Our readers. Without you, we would have been nothing. Even last week, we still posted over 90% of comments that didn’t run afoul of the guidelines, and in 15 years, we only had permanent bans on perhaps thirty names.

We have a few hundred e-mails waiting for us, begging for info, and all we can say right now is, “We don’t know.” We don’t know if this is it, we don’t know if we’ll return. We don’t know what Big Tech has in store for us and the political winds are not fortuitous. We are exploring options and we’ll leave it at that.

In the meantime, everyone reading should make these sites the first place you go for news and educated opinion:

·         Ace of Spades blog - the smartest blog in the world right now

·         Instapundit / PJ Media – the Godfather of Libertarian blogging

·         Breitbart – even when it’s over the top, it’s more than you’ll get from mainstream sources

·         The Contrarian - in depth investigative reporting may just be reborn there

Watch your backs boys and girls. And your fronts. No one else will.