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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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Police interactions with young men of any race are typically negative. Teenage boys of all races have been harassed by police since the dawn of time.
Agree nixit. When I was a teenager the police loved to pull over a car load of boys (didn’t matter the color of our skin) in our neighborhood figuring they were more likely to find them doing something wrong. I could drive home at night by myself after work and never get pulled over but as soon as we had a car load of people we became a target. It’s almost like the police think that young men are more likely to commit crimes. Maybe it has something to do with crime statistics backing up that belief. Probably not a… Read more »
There aren’t enough black officers in the force and not enough black officers in the academy pipeline to send mostly black officers into the highest crime areas. Blacks make up only 20% of the police force and the pipeline is even leaner. CPD can’t barely even recruit blacks to sit for the exam much less keep them on the force. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-chicago-police-hiring-20180503-story.html The reality is that law enforcement in Chicago, as it is in most major cities, is a family business, with certain white neighborhoods producing most of the cops, with law enforcement involvement being a generational endeavor. Chicago has intentionally… Read more »
Have you noticed that everytime there is an incident involving police most if not all the police are white in a black area. I see it all the time on the news in Rockford and on national news. If mostly black officers patrolled black areas would that help? These kids only see white cops and immediately think of them as the enemy. I think it should be tried in certain areas.
That would only reinforce the idea that white cops are out to get poor young men of color. It’s not a good idea to appear to give in to irrational thinking.
Here’s a news flash Freddy, black cops are trusted less and detested more by blacks than white cops. They are looked at as race traitors by many of their own race. I know, 37yrs in the business has given me a fairly good insight into some of this cop stuff.
It’s been that way forever. Mouthing off to the cops only when you had an escape plan. It’s different today, Kill Them! That’s about all the reptilian mind can do! Kill!!
What? This is shocking! People that statistically commit nearly all crimes have unfavorable views of police. How will we ever over come this anti-police bias? Criminals need more respect and love as they are arrested for dealing drugs, violating traffic laws and carrying illegal guns!