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.
Cops are still working in Chicago even with zero support from the mayor and less support from the States Attorney. What is wrong with them? Going out on a limb for a couple of bags of dope or a street gun that’s eventually going to reduce the gang population is an effort to put themselves in the proverbial “trick bag”. Trying to be a cop in this day and age is a waste of time.