(Chicago SubXNews)
Scanner traffic out of the Near West Side last night was raw, profane, and telling.
A TMA — a traffic management aide, not a sworn officer — came over the air at Adams and Woods with a plea that had nothing to do with cones or traffic flow.
Hey, somebody get the fuck over here before I get fucking mad. Somebody get the fuck over here right now. I’m trying to beat the fuck out somebody. Get the fuck over here.
Dispatchers scrambled. Calls for units to respond went out.
Does anyone know who their TMA is? If so, can you please go to them, because they about to fight somebody, and they give me the location so I can send the police, one dispatcher said.
For a moment, it looked like the city’s own civilian traffic employees were about to turn a street corner into a bare-knuckle fight.
Better send somebody over here before I put my hands on somebody, the TMA barked.
By the time a squad car checked in, the situation was de-escalating.
The person was sitting in a truck. Nobody got hurt.
But the damage was already done — on the airwaves, for everyone listening, the lack of discipline and lack of police presence played out in real time.
What Happens Without Enforcement
Chaos grows in a city where the official line is “defund the police.”
Mayor Brandon Johnson and his allies call it re-investment.
On the ground, it looks like untrained city workers losing their tempers over the radio and police showing up after the fact, not before.
The scanner wasn’t just an embarrassment; it was a warning.
When TMAs — the orange-vest crews assigned to direct traffic around festivals, crime scenes, or routine backups — become the front line in disputes, the public is left exposed.
They aren’t cops, they aren’t trained for confrontation, and yet in the absence of adequate police coverage, they are the ones put in the middle of violence.
Defunding by Another Name
Cuts, hiring freezes, and policy restraints add up. The city doesn’t need to pass a budget that says defund.
The effect is already here: radios filled with profanity, dispatchers begging for officers, and civilians pressed into roles they were never meant to fill.
The Adams & Woods call wasn’t an anomaly. It was a live example of what happens when ideology trumps public safety.
The scanner doesn’t lie.
Collapse of Control
Defund the police isn’t just a slogan. It’s a policy that shows up in moments like this — TMAs on the verge of brawling in the street while residents wait for a real squad car to arrive.
And it fits the mayor’s rhetoric. Just last week, Brandon Johnson declared in a press conference that “jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness … and we’re gonna eradicate it.”
The same administration that brands law enforcement itself as a disease is the one asking civilians in orange vests to hold the line on Chicago’s streets.
Meanwhile, security is filling the void.
At Roosevelt and Wabash, a 17-year-old was shot in the thigh after a dispute over a juice bottle — the trigger pulled by a Jewel-Osco security guard named Raven Seymone Aikens.
Weeks earlier in the South Loop, another guard outside Smoke Valley on Michigan Avenue pulled his weapon during an argument, killing a man with a shot to the head. That guard now faces a first-degree murder charge after prosecutors said he staged the scene.
Not every security guard is bad — far from it.
Many do their jobs with professionalism under tough conditions. But Chicago is now in an all-hands-on-deck moment, where unvetted or undertrained people are being put in roles that carry life-and-death consequences, while criminals enjoy free reign.
The collapse of real law enforcement leaves the public dependent on whoever shows up in a vest or uniform, whether they’re prepared for the job or not.
And it’s not just guards.
Days before the fatal Mag Mile crash-and-grab that killed 40-year-old Mark Arceta, one of the suspects — a man wanted in four states — was dressed up as a state-funded peacekeeper, smiling for photos with Governor JB Pritzker.
That’s the depth of the substitution: violent felons recast as trusted messengers, lauded by the political class, even as they gear up for their next raid.
Anarcho-Tyranny Explained
What Chicago is living through is more than bad policy — it’s textbook anarcho-tyranny.
Coined in the 1990s by columnist Samuel Francis, anarcho-tyranny describes a government that is oppressive toward the law-abiding while ineffective at controlling actual criminals.
Key traits:
Tyrannical control: Layers of laws, regulations, and taxes squeeze working people who follow the rules.
Anarchic neglect: At the same time, the state fails to perform its most basic duty — keeping citizens safe from violent crime.
Selective enforcement: Justice is applied arbitrarily, punishing politically disfavored groups while cutting breaks for violent offenders.
Oppression as strategy: This imbalance isn’t an accident; it’s a way to consolidate state power under the pretense of public safety.
In Chicago, this is left-wing oppression in action.
Families get hammered with red-light tickets and endless taxes, while peacekeeper felons, rage-filled TMAs, and over-armed security guards are deputized — not to protect the public, but to fill the void created by political choices.
That’s not reform.
That’s anarcho-tyranny — and it’s the lived result of the city’s defund ideology.
It’s not an accident, it’s planned chaos for more government control.
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