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Lightfoot emphatically denied that a crackdown on overtime pay resulted in 1,000 fewer police officers on the street, and blamed disgruntled cops for spreading that rumor. Still, she said she had told Brown that “this was a fail. Whatever the strategy was, it didn’t work. ... This weekend’s violence was out of control.”
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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So she blames the CPD superintendent whom she just hired a few months ago and contradicts him in the same presser demonstrating how out of touch she is with her own statistics. THIS IS WHAT FAILED LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE, DEMS. Also it should not come as a shock lawless gang members on the southside aren’t abiding to shelter in place orders.
Anyone else notice the relationship between freeing people from jail and prison and the increase in crime?
Crazy how that works.
“There is no circumstance like the one we are facing right now when it comes to public safety.”
…and this whole thing is the fault of Queenie, J. Beluga and the Democratic Party.
Let’s face it – Groot hasn’t a clue what she is doing. Enjoy the misery Chicago – you voted for it.
“Buckwheat casts blame, again.”
The only headline needed when writing about Chicago politics.