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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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Summation of the 8 person mayoral forum.
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He is a 2022 graduate of the Northwestern Prison Education Program. Assuming it’s the same guy, he is serving life for first degree murder: https://www.idoc.state.il.us/subsections/search/inms_print.asp?idoc=B60794 https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1421245.html In September 1996, a Stephenson County jury convicted Anthony Ehlers (“petitioner” or “Ehlers”) of first degree murder and armed robbery. See People v. Ehlers, 703 N.E. 2d 539, (Ill. App. Ct. Nov. 13, 1996); see also [17-1]. The charges arose out of an armed robbery of a gun store in Freeport, Illinois on the morning of November 12, 1992. On the said date, defendant and two other men, William Keene and Michael Hoover, entered the gun shop and… Read more »
The author claims that we already have tough penalties, but crime is rising so tough penalties and incarceration don’t work.
That’s like the guy claiming he’s dieting, but he hasn’t lost weight so diets don’t work. It couldn’t have anything to do with the bag of Oreos he just scarfed down.
It doesn’t matter what supposed policies are in place. It matters what policies are actually implemented.
And this guy disingenuously ignores 25 years of history shows that tough penalties DO work. The tough on crime policies enacted during the mid-1990’s lead to a nearly immediate reduction in crime that lasted an entire generation. There was a small spike after Ferguson/LaQuon McDonald, but crime continued declining until the weekend after St. Floyd’s overdose in May of 2020. Lori and Brownie said they had a target of 300 murders in 2019, remember that? LOL. In 2020, society stopped arresting and prosecuting criminals, and then let the rest of the criminals out of jail or prison for covid and… Read more »
This career criminal author is the model Kim Foxx voter