20 APR 2026: Chicago Police Officer Michael Joyce received a handmade quilt from Quilt for Cops. The quilt was presented by the CPD Chaplains Joseph Jackson, Rafeal Yanez and Hysni Selenica. On 13 Mar 2026: Officer Joyce responded to a call of a endanger missing person with mental illness. As Officer Joyce located the missing person, at some point she aggressively kicked Officer Joyce about the knee area several times, causing severe damage.

Victor, son of PO Brett Palm (025), recently gave me a hand-made card on which he drew this image of Mayor Brandon Johnson. Young Victor may be our next Leonardo Da Vinci!

At the police Mass on 12 APR, I had the privilege of baptizing Victor, the son of PO Brett Palm (025), pictured next to me. What an honor! Here you’ll see his family gathered around him after the big event. Congratulation, Victor, and welcome to the Christian family!

10 MAR 2026: Hosted by Chicago Police Community Policing and the Chicago Park District. CPD and CFD boxing teams come together as they hold a boxing clinic engaging with the young community at Scottsdale Park. The teams taught well over a hundred kids with some fundamental boxing skills and keeping up with cardio. The Battle of the Badges will be 17 April 2026, where CFD and CPD battle it out for the title.

24 FEB 2026: The United Muslim American Association of Law Enforcement Professionals (UMAALEP) hosted a Ramadan dinner at The Lodge 7 FOP Hall. Many police officers of the Muslim faith and their families attended as they anticipate for sunset in order to break their fast. Lt. Syed Quardi as the Emcee, engaged with everyone the entire night. Rabbi Moshe Wolf stopped in giving words of wisdom, telling jokes and passing out candy. This was a great night of fellowship where officers of all faith backgrounds break bread together as Lent and Ramadan began at the same time this year.

03 FEB 2026: Chicago Police Officer Laura Dicera received handmade quilt from Quilts for Cops, presented by Chaplain Kimberly Lewis-Davis and Chaplain Rafael Yanez. On 19 OCT 2025: Officer Dicera was patrolling the downtown area on a police bicycle as the bicycle toppled over. She suffered a broken arm due to the impact of the fall.

28 JAN 2026: Chicago Police Officer Jesus Perez and Officer Joseph Schillaci received a handmade quilt from Quilts for Cops. The quilts were presented in front of Recruit Class 25-8 by Chaplain Hysni Selenica. Officer Prezes' better half, Recruit Gloria Lugo participated in the quilt presentation as she presented the quilt to her better half. On 29 Dec 2025: Officer Schillaci and Officer Perez were monitoring the radio zone of a convoy of stolen vehicles heading towards the 019th District. As they were driving through the intersection of 1200 W. Waveland, one of the stolen vehicles driving at a high rate of speed, struck their marked police vehicle.

28 JAN 2026: Chicago Police Officer Dmitriy Okunskiy received a handmade quilt from Quilts for Cops, presented by Chaplain Rafael Yanez and Chaplain Hysni Selenica. On 19 Oct 2025: Officer Okunskiy and his partner were on patrol as they were driving through the intersection at 11100 S Cottage Grove Ave. A vehicle driving at a high rate of speed struck the marked police car, causing it to spin through the street. Both officers were knocked out unconscious do to the impact.

15 JAN 2026: Chicago Police Officer Mark Rebecchi received a handmade quilt from Quilts for Cops, as Chaplain Hysni Selenica presented the quilt. On 14 Nov 2025: Officer Rebecchi quickly responded to a group of angry people charging at a victim. Officer Rebecchi was able to deflect the group from injuring the victim or getting nearby. While keeping the victim safe, Officer Rebecchi suffered a fractured hand.

13 JAN 2026: Chicago Police Officer Mohammed Massoud received a handmade quilt from Quilts for Cops, presented by Chaplain Robert Montelongo, Chaplain Rafael and Chaplain Hysni Selenica. The presentation took place at Yaba's Food & Middle Eastern Grill in the Logan Squar neighborhood. Thank you! Yaba and Officer Massoud for your generous hospitality. On 23 Nov 2025: Officer Massoud and his partner Officer Jay Cuaresma were responding to a 10-1 emergency call. As they were going through the intersection at Western and Grandville, a vehicle driving at a high rate of speed disregard the red-light signal and struck the mark police vehicle. The impact caused their vehicle to spin into the medium. Both officers suffered head and multipole bodily injuries.

13 JAN 2026: Chicago Police Officer Jay Cuaresma received a handmade quilt from Quilts for Cops, presented by Chaplain Kimberly Lewis-Davis. On 23 Nov 2025: Officer Cuaresma and his partner Officer Mohammed Massoud were responding to a 10-1 emergency call. As they were going through the intersection at Western and Grandville, a vehicle driving at a high rate of speed disregard the red-light signal and struck the mark police vehicle. The impact caused their vehicle to spin into the medium. Both officers suffered head and multiple bodily injuries.

12 JAN 2026: Chicago Police Officer Aaron Boyd received a handmade quilt from Quilts for Cops, presented by Chaplain Rafael Yanez and Chaplain Hysni Selenica. On 14 Nov 2025: Officer Boyd marked police vehicle collided with a vehicle at the intersection of 47th and Vincennes. Both vehicles spun and struck a fixed object. Officer Boyd received mutable injuries to his body.

06 JAN 2026: Chaplain Robert Montelongo led the ceremonial prayer at the star ceremony for recruit Class 25-5. After the ceremony, members of the Chaplains Unit offered blessings to the newly sworn police officers. Congratulation Class 25-5!!!

01 JAN 2026: On Christmas night and New Year’s Eve, some of my elves and I visited a dozen districts to distribute care packages made by about six generous high school students. The bags, filled with candy, gum, beef jerky, etc., put smiles on a lot of faces…as evidenced here!