Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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There are concerns that Illinois’ new system of release and very limited detention without bail will embolden hardened recidivist criminals, as seen in New York state. While New Jersey eliminated monetary bail in 2017, it changed its constitution and spent nearly a billion dollars for prosecutors to perform detention hearings and to create a statewide system of pretrial criminal supervision, including GPS monitoring and house arrest. However, the plan for Illinois is to release criminal defendants, notwithstanding the criminal charges which first led to their arrest.
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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
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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.
The Democrat Purge law is what you get when filthy Democrat cockroaches put ignore needs of hard working decent people, and instead cater to society’s criminal parasites and the leftist shit-birds who undermine social order with soft on crime nonsense
A no cash bail law in Switzerland or Denmark might work well, with a small population, low crime and few recidivist criminals. But Chicago is not Denmark or Switzerland or Japan or Singapore. We are Cape Town, Caracas and the Balkans all jammed on top of each other, barely speaking the same language or sharing the same culture. The no cash bail law combined with a really chaotic 2020’s might be the death knell for Chicago while making little to no difference outside of urban areas. Because crime rates in exurban and rural areas in Illinois are already very low,… Read more »