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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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Didn’t Brandon Johnson say that he wanted to end the use of ShotSpotters?
The Department is woefully understaffed. Which is why if there are no reports of some one being shot, or reports of damage, shotspotter calls fall to the bottom of the list and wait until some one can respond. That is why the Dispatcher was just reading off pending jobs because their rules say they have only so many minutes to announce the job, while it may take hours for police to respond, especially on a warm spring/summer/fall night. I think that’s what’s missing in the reporting of this tragedy
I also took note of the neighbor who claimed that bad things happening in her neighborhood hadn’t been common, but who also said that she heard the loud gunshots and just returned to sleep until the squad cars showed up.
Gunfire, I guess, isn’t one of the ‘bad’ things…
Gunfire, sirens, screams…
Just part of the background noise in the big blue cities…
Quite sad actually…
When “seconds” count…
The police are “minutes” away…
Many minutes…
Will never show
No wonder why Ken Griffin and tens of thousands of others have left the Chitty.
It has been getting worse every day and at an increasing rate.
It’s shocking.