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One of the big undercovered stories of the year is the flight of current and potential officers from police forces across the country. A case study is what’s happening in Evanston, Ill. The citizens of Evanston can thank the politicians they elected when their homes are robbed and nobody responds.
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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You forgot ‘we value your call.’ That one always gives me pause.
GM,
I’m sorry about what you’re going thru. Evanston taxpayers deserve better than this.
At one time in history government possessed a great deal of moral suasion. I pray that it makes a comeback.
Godspeed to you.
They pols of Evanston deserve to get good and hard.
I moved to Evanston a few years back, formerly in Chicago, and I gotta tell ya, the city government is a mess. Besides the police shortage, they have trouble hiring for city positions because of the *extreme* “woke” hiring policies that demonize what would ordinarily be good candidates. They are spending large sums to “go green” with city vehicles, etc., and the latest is that they’ve decided on a new $500 “guaranteed income” program (“Payments will be made to an equal number of residents from each of the following three categories: disengaged youths (ages 18-24), senior citizens (over 62) and undocumented… Read more »