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Reports of major crimes in Chicago were up 46% during the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2022. Of the seven major crime categories tracked by CPD, only murders are lower this year, down 15% compared to 2022. They are still up 33% from 2019, though.
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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Lori Lightfoot 2.0! Chicago’s new liberal mayor blames BUSINESSES for spiraling violent crime because 70% ‘don’t pay corporate tax’ and low investment has caused poverty.
The Lil’ Toad Lori is surely cackling with glee…
Lightfoot proved to be an ineffective mayor, hostile to 70% of her constituency, and enabler to both CTU and BLM antics. She cost Chicago dearly, in reputation, in economic vitality, and in long-term financial fiscal stability. But Johnson is unqualified for office, and mere puppet of Preckwinkle. He’s a deadbeat, a self-disclosed failure as CTU teacher, and a professional CTU agitator. What CTU, progressive voters, and Preckwinkle Machine don’t understand is that “raising taxes” for “gimme more” progressive social-welfare policies eventually backfires, because those who get oppressively taxed eventually decide to leave. Those who are harmed, by crime, by cost… Read more »
Crime is the new growth industry in the Chitty.
Ken Griffen left because of it and so are tens of thousands of families.
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