Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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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.
Hilarious! We’ll do the metrics, you just need to trust us. Set objectives no one can measure with any confidence. Then declare victory! Smells like Democratic mischief!
Cops and quotas are usually to make the Brass look good. As soon as the shit hits the fan the Brass are nowhere to be found. Arrest quotas, ticket quotas, and parking ticket quotas are a slippery slope and it’s a way for the Brass to make themselves look good on paper. It’s a stupid idea to put quotas on Cop activities. In this case, it was a bad idea gone bad, to begin with. One City Officer was writing over 112 Positive Community Interactions a day which smells of assigned activity, or worse phony activity to please a supervisor… Read more »