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“There are over 800,000 police officers nationwide and over 18,000 police agencies,” one chief said. “The biggest problem I see is that means 18,000 different policies, training, hiring, discipline, professionalism, etc. Nationwide standards on all of them need to be developed and attained. All cops want this.”
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
I have noticed that many of these so-called ‘social justice warriors’ continually scream, “Stop killing black people!” These folk need to check a mirror as they bellow. Blacks murder many times more of their own than any other group does. The white man rarely kills one of them whereas he is 19 times more likely to be slaughtered by a black in an interracial crime. Let’s go back to the racial mirror. Second, blacks abort their babies in grossly, grisly numbers. Since 1973, 55,000,000 innocent babies have been killed with a majority of them having been black. Were blacks to… Read more »