Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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One incident in District 3’s South Shore highlighted the response time problem. Data show someone called the police at 4:30 a.m. after a fight spilled out into the street. At 4:58, a crash occurred, about 27 minutes after the first 911 call about the earlier assault. At 5:35 a.m., a police officer arrived at Jeffery Pub, 64 minutes after the initial 911 call. Tavis Dunbar, 34, was charged with murder after killing three men whom he hit with his car after a brawl outside the club.
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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.
It’s ok to elect Kim Foxx and to defund the police but you want police to respond quickly. So you get robbed and beaten and the police show up quickly. They’re still not going to catch the perp and if they do Kim Foxx won’t convict them. Elections and political positions have consequences, quit complaining.
Police are doing a better job than I would have thought. I thought they show up the next day or two just of fill out paperwork. Or they ask you to come into the station as they cannot be bothered to go out in that dangerous Chitty of Chicago.
Isn’t that the heart of the Defund the Police Movement?