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When poll takers were also asked about ways to reduce crime, 36% chose providing job training and economic opportunity for residents as their top solution. Another 26% said hiring more police officers would help stem crime — and 22% said providing more mental health resources was the answer.
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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The Chitty of Chicago cops doing their best job. No arrests were made. No attempt to find them were made.
A crew conducted nine armed robberies Friday morning in just over an hour, according to Chicago police.
Those who are not comfortable with the police seem all too eager to call 911 for every baby daddy drama that arises. Interesting.
Economic opportunity? Like owning your own small business? Ask those small business businesses that suffered total loss in that strip mall around Lake Shore Drive and 47th Street during the George Floyd disturbances. Those vandals were people from the community.
“The racial breakdown of those prioritizing crime showed a more pronounced difference: 61% of white voters, 30% of Black voters and 37% of Hispanic voters.” Most crime in Chicago is committed disproportionately by minorities. White voters are more interested in jailing black and brown people than black and brown people are interested in jailing black and brown people. Black and brown people overwhelmingly think this is a bad idea. Even though 84% of black people feel they are unsafe in Chicago, and 85% have a negative view of police relations, the #1 issue with black residents is criminal justice reform,… Read more »
Right or wrong was used in the past by those that supported segregation
…just sayin
There is segregation – self-imposed segregation.
Now we also have institutional discrimination, and have had it for decades: affirmative action; race-specific: graduations, discussion groups, affinity groups, college orientations, safe spaces, etc.
Human beings are attracted to one another who look like them and share a heritage.
Everyone has the right to associate and live in whatever community they choose – doesn’t make it good or bad, just human nature.
Root cause of it all…massive Tier 1 public pensions that far exceed the ability of non-public union taxpayers to pay, coupled with unbridled political corruption and incompetence in this state. Estimated-IL-#1-3 in highest overall tax burden; #1-3 in political corruption; #51, behind Puerto Rico, in fiscal condition; most poor kids cannot read or do math at grade level; and massive crime. Little/no money “for nuthing” cause we are paying out these massive and out of control Tier 1 public pensions. Despicable and outrageous.
But the situation is what the Chicago citizens voted for and noww they feel unsafe? That’s too bad they made their bed and now let them live in it
Lifestyle choice. Do criminals want job training? Do people who don’t generally want the 9-5 lifestyle going to sign up for a jobs program?
The job market has never been more open than it is today. City jobs no longer require knowing someone to be hired. Many of these jobs don’t require a whole lotta skill either. But they do require one thing: care. Do you care enough to show up? Care enough to execute your job competently? We can teach a lot of things, but we can’t teach people to care.
So true.
Shut up and pay your taxes.
Cops and teachers do not have to do their jobs if they do not want to.
They are paid because they show up and sleep. They are not paid for by performance.
If you want protection pay the street gangs for it, they do a much better job and cost less.
After 4 years of Lightfoot’s miserable failure on crime — and everything else — maybe voters have had enough of soft of crime nonsense.
This the same song that has been sung for 50yrs. More jobs, they are out there nobody wants to work. More training, loads of training programs available, nobody wants it. More opportunities, so more free stuff and they all want that. Crime is the problem that the voters are responsible for. They elected the states attorney that has failed the community. They elected the judges that don’t put criminals in prison where they belong. They elected the politicians that enact rules that hand tie the police. The list goes on and on. The citizens are responsible because they voted for… Read more »