Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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The broad-ranging measure abolishes cash bail beginning in January 2023, reforms police training, certification and use-of-force standards, expands detainee rights, and requires body cameras at all departments by 2025. Since its passage, the measure has been amended twice to accommodate concerns of law enforcement groups, pushing back certain effective dates and changing some of the initial use-of-force language.
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
I understand that one of the provisions of this disaster is eliminating qualified immunity for law enforcement.
Qualified immunity will continue for politicians, judges, prosecutors, etc, but will be eliminated for cops.
Eliminating qualified immunity for law enforcement will cause further decline in effective policing and accelerate the decline of a once great state.
The who darned thing should be repealed.
The term “cluster fuqq” is now defined as the language contained in the SAFE-T act. Confusing double speak that just about eliminates pro active policing. Can you imagine having a trespassers at your home or business and the cops cant do anything to help? Can’t remove the person, can’t arrest or cite them. Why bother having police departments.