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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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Done, hope it’s not to late have many friends and family members that are officers, only if the real truth would come out as to what really goes on in the streets.
I read that the bill removes qualified immunity which is insane. Every other government employee has qualified immunity for actions performed within the scope of their employment and it make no sense to remove that for the government employee most likely to require it. it’s clear what is going to happen because we’ve seen it all before. It’s serpico all over again. Few want to be cops as is (read stories on SCC blog about how difficult it is even to get people to take the test, much less go to the academy); and if you make people personally liable… Read more »
In this day and age “fetal” is better than aggressive, preventive patrol. There are no rewards for actually doing what cops are supposed to do. Gotta love a boss who says they will back you 100% when you are right. You need a boss to back you when you are 95% right.
Their goal can only be to neutralize law enforcement. Surely nobody imagines that removing qualified immunity can result in anything other than what you describe. You are so correct, debtsor – God help us all.
You are right, they want to neutralize law enforcement so they can replace it with their own law enforcement. The real social justice warriors.
Are there hidden tax and or fee hikes in the bill?
East of Eden by John Steinbeck has 608 pages which is way-way better reading than 611 pages of political dribble.
Jesus