Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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"There's a real fear that allowing judges to consider whether somebody poses a danger essentially allows for implicit bias to be part of the legal process," said Insha Rahman, of the Vera Institute of Justice, an independent nonprofit that focuses on criminal justice reforms. "Really, what Illinois is a test of is, 'Is this the new direction? Is this the final frontier of no more money bail? Have we actually hit it, and can we keep moving forward?'"
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
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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.
“…Democrats who control the Legislature approved legislation in January 2021 that erased a system they argue unjustly punishes the poor and disproportionately puts more Black people in jail.” The E in SAFE-T means Equity. Equity, according to every article I’ve seen, and every legislator who voted for the new law, means putting less Black people in jail. It doesn’t matter if they’re guilty as sin, or if they will ultimately go to prison, or if they skip subsequent court appearance. It’s about dismantling the systemically racist criminal justice system that puts more Black people in jail. And that’s the SAFE-T… Read more »