Dan Davies was an accident waiting to happen…
…and unfortunately for both Davies and Illinois State Trooper Gerald Ellis, that accident did in fact happen, and both are now dead.
It is indeed tragic, as well as a failure of the justice system:
…[O]fficials of the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office say they cannot find any evidence Davies ever got a driver’s license.
Despite that fact, Davies was stopped by police dozens of times – receiving over 70 tickets – including repeated citations for driving without a license. Each time he was cited for having no license, a “suspension” was added to his record at the secretary of state’s office, which would make it more difficult for him to get a license, if he ever applied for one.
He also was arrested twice for drunk driving…
Investigators say Davies was driving the wrong way on the Tri-State tollway near Libertyville early Saturday, when he rammed a squad car driven by Trooper Gerald Ellis. Both were killed in the crash.
Records obtained by NBC5 Investigates show that Davies’ first citation for driving without a license was in 1996. Since then, he had received 71 tickets during 25 traffic stops. The Secretary of State’s office had used every tool available to them, including placing him under revocation following his second DUI arrest last November. That would have required him to go to an administrative hearing if he ever wanted to obtain a license in Illinois.
Only one problem: Davies didn’t want to get a license in Illinois. Why would he? He was able to drive without it, despite having been stopped 70 times.
But it appears nothing was ever done by local authorities to stop Davies from getting back behind the wheel.
“The only alternative is to put someone in jail,” Druker said. “They have no respect for the concept of law or a driver’s license.”
That didn’t happen. After his November drunk driving arrest, Davies’ case was eventually transferred to Cook County Criminal Court, where he faced multiple charges of aggravated DUI. But in that case, he was granted a $3000 I-bond, meaning he had to post no cash, and he was never jailed – despite what authorities say was one of the worst driving records in the state of Illinois. And remember – he had no license in the first place.
Hmmm—Cook County, Cook County—now where have I heard about Cook County letting people off easy? (That’s a rhetorical question).
A spokesman for Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx did not respond to NBC5 Investigates’ repeated inquiries about what position prosecutors took to try to keep Davies in custody.
Well, you know, she’s busy with other things.
But that’s not all:
Davies was no stranger to the Cook County Criminal Court. NBC 5 Investigates has learned that since he was a teenager, in addition to his dozens of traffic stops, he also was charged in 22 additional criminal cases… where he faced repeated charges of criminal damage to property, assault and battery – including battery on a police officer and domestic battery – drug-dealing, and drug possession.
Davies was found guilty in seven of those cases, but served a total of only 53 total days in jail – less than two months, including a sentence of just ten days for a conviction stemming from his first DUI arrest in 2010.
This is a horrific and broken system all the more awful because it seems it was purposely broken to feed liberal social justice needs. Not only did this cause the death of Trooper Ellis, but it didn’t do Davies any favors, either. He’s dead, too.
RIP. But the Cook County “justice” system shouldn’t rest in peace.
Obviously a case of murder by a state trooper.
Kim Foxx should immediately launch an investigation of the police.
Has anyone seen a photo of this drunk driver? I get suspicious in these cases. I look for a photo; there should be a booking photo in the felony DUI case from 2010. In Britain, it’s “South Asians” and in Chicago, it’s “Youths. ” This crook was a bit to old for a “youth” but the absence of his photo suggests a reason he got away with all this.
My thoughts too. When you can’t find a mugshot or a clear shot of the drunk anywhere your Crook County detecto kit needs to be opened up.
Also, who owned this car? Who paid for the license plate and registration? Who paid for the insurance if any? In short who gave this deadly weapon to this scumbag?
Like all democrat strongholds, Cook County is one of America’s ‘cancer’ cells.
One of the odd public services performed by the palaeo crew was inventing the term ‘anarcho-tyranny’. Witless cross-subsidies and officious interference with the lives of ordinary people while basic functions like policing are done with the left hand.
This man should have been jailed long ago as a recidivist offender. A couple of years in the Cook County Jail would do. Or, we could revive corporal punishment: the birch, the rattan cane, and the pillory-and-stocks.
https://www.google.com/search?q=dan+davies+cook+county+images&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwidn6XeuLfhAhXhw1kKHS3SDvsQ_AUIDigB&biw=1192&bih=647#imgrc=w666BZbMuA9WaM:
I think this is an image of him. Evidently there were > 5 DUIs
Art Deco,
I believe that you just confirmed what we all suspected.
If Obama had a son he’d look just like that guy.
Hard to know since now that image is not found at the linked article.
It is interesting to see how difficult it is to find his photo. He’s dead now so I guess Illinois drivers are safe again. No thinks to the Crook County DA.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ? Edmund Burke
The very black (thanks, Art Deco) vehicular killer was 44 years old. Forty-four!
He didn’t do no crimes, nah, none!
I am so sick of being both cynical and correct when I read stuff like this. I knew he was black, right away.
This news story puts a grotesque and stupid slant on its minimal news:
https://abc7chicago.com/wrong-way-driver-involved-in-crash-that-killed-isp-trooper-idd/5229096/
“Toxicology results are pending” it says, on both the killer and the killed. As if there were any basis for suspecting toxins in the state trooper! Works to make the two appear equal, though one was pure human garbage and the other a valorous public servant.
Davies is an example why the N word has survived and been often correctly applied all these years.
Why does anyone, anyone let such garbage out loose and unimpeded, even a black female DA?
Art Deco’s image appears to be the correct one. Possibly the Chicago NBC station didn’t want to carry Davies’s photo because, you know …
Cook County can be so proud of its Democrat party values. Concern for people’s lives isn’t among them.
Cook County can be so proud of its Democrat party values. Concern for people’s lives isn’t among them.
The new black lesbian Mayor will have her “wife” introduced as “First Lady” of Chicago. How do they choose? Flip a coin?
Cicero, Davies could just as easily have killed a black trooper or a black driver. There is no good excuse for excusing criminal behavior because of the criminal’s race. The vast majority of gunshot victims in Chicago are black, some of them innocent bystanders.
Yes Kate as we have known for a long time it is black people themselves who suffer the most from the race hustling political mentality.
There is no good excuse for excusing criminal behavior because of the criminal’s race.
There is this thing called “statistics.” Like the Bell Curve, people sometimes don’t like the facts and make up their own. If the inner city population is excluded, the US has less crime than Europe.
Artfldgr on April 4, 2019 at 7:24 pm at 7:24 pm said:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ? Edmund Burke
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It does not appear that any “good” men (or women) were involved in the doing of nothing.
“Well, you know, she’s busy with other things.” – Neo
https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2019/03/28/new-illinois-bar-drops-hammer-kim-foxx-jussie-smollett-lays-possible-illegality-actions/
That’s the letter we read last week. The next one is from today.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2019/04/04/police-chiefs-to-express-no-confidence-in-kim-foxx-n2544290?utm_campaign=inarticle
To be dense about it… Did Davis get the Hillary/Jussie treatment merely because of his race — lather, rinse and repeat dozens of times?
Is the Chicago PD really that dysfunctional?
Or does Davis have some connections we don’t know about?
It sounds like a lot of the kid glove treatment this crook got was outside Crook County but we might, just might, hear more.
Leftists killing AMerican sheep and creating Revolutionary fervor out of it is kind of the point. That’s not unintended tragedies.
Yesterday and today, the programmed digital signage spanning all lanes of I-88 and I-90 in Illinois made repeated mention of Trooper Gerald Ellis —specifically by name— “finishing his tour of duty” (not an exact quote, but close). I don’t think most ordinary drivers on those two Interstaes figured out what exactly that was all about. Pretty intense and pretty indicative of how deep into the covfefe we’re about to step. As well we should!
Artfldgr on April 4, 2019 at 7:24 pm at 7:24 pm said:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ? Edmund Burke
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AesopFan on April 4, 2019 at 9:36 pm at 9:36 pm said:
It does not appear that any “good” men (or women) were involved in the doing of nothing.
hmmm…
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing and allow evil to seize the rudder allowing the actions of fools playing tragedians”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing – but to really really do it well one needs to empower the wretched for some abstract ‘kindness'”
want to give it a shot?
Is the CPD that ….?
Yes. It’s Chicago/China Town Jake.
Black American Davies, never seriously punished despite many crimes, was let off lightly because so many Blacks are punished. So often. Because so many commit so many crimes.
That’s the behavior part of racism that Dems don’t want to talk about. Bad behavior by Blacks is the main reason living in a Black neighborhood is so lousy. Having children without being married is, statistically, terrible for Blacks.
Their bad behavior is not directly caused by racism, but the failure to punish them IS a failure of society because of a misguided effort to avoid punishing Blacks “too much”.
Similar to the school discipline issue — which even some true blue Dem teachers are starting to complain about. (What people really know about, they’re conservative about.)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3104221
Now that I think of it — a goal of US college is to make sure their grads don’t know anything, so they’re not conservative about anything. See Kurt for a bit of fun:
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/04/04/the-admission-scam-is-another-reason-to-destroy-academia-as-we-know-it-n2544186?40
Black American Davies, never seriously punished despite many crimes…
?
“Black Jack Davy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI824ZzsEVE
The only alternative is to put someone in jail,”
Many times the solution is so obvious. Political Correctness kills too many!
Everyone knows that blacks commit an inordinate amount of crime but liberals claim blacks are unfairly targeted, prosecuted and incarcerated by the police and prosecutors and judges. Read this.
https://www.amren.com/the-color-of-crime/
It didn’t use to be this way, even in Chicago. The Great Society was like a Holocaust for blacks. Destroyed the black family. When I was 18, my friends and I hung out in a black tavern called “Ella Mae Reed’s.” We were the only whites in there, We played bumper pool and always won. The other guys, all black, would line up to play us. Everybody was drinking. Never felt unsafe.
It didn’t use to be this way, even in Chicago. The Great Society was like a Holocaust for blacks. Destroyed the black family.
The breakdown in the degree of order and durability in family relations occurred in every stratum of society between 1958 and 2010. The end-state was worse among blacks than among the rest. The thing is, the initial state was worse too, and the increase in the odds of various phenomena similar. N.B., the census of the TANF rolls is currently about 4 million, or 1.3% of the population. The census of the AFDC rolls in 1995 was about 12 million, or about 4.5% of the population. There’s been a dramatic decline in the number of single-mothers-and-ba*tard-children on state doles. The discernible effect on the share of children born illegitimate has been bupkis.
THANS hux for black jack davy!!
Used to love steeleye span from my days at festivals and the war,
hanging out with shadomaker of carillon, and pog o mahone, cerridwynn, the carol sisters…
and all the forgotten .
do you know Gwyddion Penderwen?
he was part of our circle, with so many others that are gone..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz-WAWY7WSg
pensic war, the dog star celebrations in Ohio, communes in new Hampshire
life was interesting then… nothing like bonfires in spring… tim and morning glory zell
ah the fun we had… heck, i remember the times with Herman Slater at Magical Childe
but that is a gone past and the prodigal son returned..
thanks for memories of friends long gone…
we are even on the cover of the rocky horror floor show album…
fun fun, its NOT richard obrien in the window, its our friend, with the license plate Mr Raff…
ah the saturdays hanging out at85th street theater… where Sal, made famous
in the movie fame, his sister and the bang gang la ra’s…
Then everyone died. some just disappeared like Cassie…
sorry, hux got lucky…
Police can become corrupted and sometimes the justice system can lend a hand in that corruption, but police deal with a lot of b.s. and are expected to think clear at all times in the most stressful and bizarre situations. The most indignant minorities want police to have more training aka sensitive training yet such people never volunteer to change the police training curriculum.
@ Mike K: Headlines tried to make the election of Lightfoot some grand accomplishment for the city, particularly pointing out that “Chicago is the largest city to elect the first African-American and openly gay woman.” So what. It means nothing in the long run, at least for those that know their value and have strong principles. Besides Jane Byrne was the first (white) female mayor for Chicago where females weren’t as established in the workplace, let alone politics, as they are now. This would be more of a storyline in, say, a mid-sized city in a red state somewhere in the South. I mean it wasn’t Lightfoot then it would be Preckwinkle.