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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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Year to year totals show that 2022 has recorded more homicides than 2018, 2019, and 2020. It’s also the 4th highest total in recorded homicides since 2011. There are 14 less reported than 2021, to date, but the summer months are coming. Whatever the number the slaughter continues while Preckwinkle, Foxx, Evans and Lightfoot face the problem with eyes wide shut.
Wow! We couldn’t catch them ten years ago so we get a do-over! The guys got nothin to do. We’re gonna go for some cold ones! Contemporary crime is just too dangerous and unpopular. They’ll pull some bones out of Douglas Park Lagoon and claim it’s the tenth Spillotro brother!
You are right on the mark. Brown is an idiot and a fool. He has detectives assigned to patrolman type duties leaving few to actually investigate anything. He must think those 10 year old ice cold cases will help his closed case statistics. There are plenty of cases that are red hot right now, but he is wasting precious resources on something that most likely will never be solved. Even if he catches the bad guy Kimmie will refuse to prosecute unless she has security footage of the murder signing a confession in the victim’s bloodywhile leaving the grisly scene.
Believe me in this. Unless there is some sort of DNA evidence available those cold cases will stay cold forever.