Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
In other crime news, 2 gang interventionists and Safe Passage workers were arrested for selling cocaine multiple times to undercover officers as well as selling a stolen firearm to the undercover officer. Both of the suspects are convicted murderers, one in 1993 who was sentenced to 45yrs in prison, one in 1994 who got 40yrs in prison. Both out on the street getting paid with taxpayer dollars, both committing serious crimes and released from prison after serving about 1/2 of their sentence. Cops are the problem? I think not.
The streets are run by criminals. Cops only make out paperwork and firemen transport the bodies. None of the shooters will be arrested. Common knowledge that cops only care about a huge pension and retirement. Last thing they want to do is stop crime. The Chitty of Chicago is in a freefall and has not hit bottom yet. Run for your life and your family’s safety.
Thumbs down for that comment about cops not wanting to stop crime, that’s literally the reason the majority of them are in the profession, not for the pension and retirement, those are ‘perks’. You can thank the thugs in city hall that don’t allow them to do their jobs for why crime is out of control.
The proof of the pudding is in the results. All the retired cops in Punta Gorda, Fl just hate themselves for taking huge pensions and buying luxury homes and cars and going out to dinner all the time. They can hardly live with themselves. I feel so sorry for them.
I’m an idiot, has anybody noticed?
The next era of policing will be corrupt cops on the take. CPD wants a police force made of community members – and in a community full of gangbangers, drug dealers, and other criminals and felons, it’s a logical conclusion that the CPD Police Force will ultimately be the same: a police force full of corrupt cops, on the take, seeking only to enrich themselves through every manner of illegality.
get it right for once, both of you, the CPD (the actual force) doesn’t want any of that, nor do most law-abiding citizens, the idiots in charge of COPA and their cohort of moronic voters do
Frank, today’s cops mostly want to stop crime. But as the city struggles to recruit new officers, they lower standards, reach further down into the community, waive standards, and before long, it’s 1970’s Serpico all over again, where there’s only one honest cop left in the entire force.
There’s no doubt about that, but again, you can thank city hall for all of it. Leave honest cops be
Frank, I tend to agree with you. The pols have put the cops in handcuffs. If per chance they actually arrest a crook Lil Kim springs him before the arresting cop has even finished his shift.
The end result is cops have “learned” to play the game by not being proactive and crime has exploded and the public doesn’t precieve Chicago as being safe.