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"The crime wave has many deep social and economic roots, but it is heightened by two key governmental failures that are capable of remedy.The first failure is the abdication of duty by Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx...The second failure is Chicago’s ineffective structure for police management and accountability."
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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The Tribune is owned by the BLM and Blowhard crowd.
I was able to read the editorial by hitting reload and then stop quickly before the paywall came up. Journalists are now called ‘content creators’ because Trib editorials have gone really downhill since the new management took over. They were not good before but now they read like a 8th grader’s woke essay. The editorial assumes – without evidence – that CPD is a sloppy, unprofessional and corrupt police force. Then the article proposes changes and asserts – again without evidence – that these changes will improve policing. I’m familiar enough with CPD and Chicago so I think I should… Read more »
The small sub set of under 40 African American males has been terrorizing Chicago for 50 years.
Perhaps, but they’ve become more brazen because there are no longer any consequences, not even some time in jail to cool their heels. The bad guys are back on the street faster than the cop who arrested them can finish the paperwork. No wonder “no one saw nothing.”
Content Creater is a euphemism for chronic masturbater. Just seeing their name in print!