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“Nobody is renaming anybody little mini-Al Capones. But they certainly, in many cases, had the same, terrorizing effect that Al Capone had 100 years ago,” John Catanzara said.
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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Who wants to bet those good unionized public pensioned Chicago cops vote Democrat on election day?
And we’re just getting started in this administration
Brandon Johnson belongs at an ultra-liberal college, lecturing on progressive policing without causing serious social or political harm, rather than being in Mayor’s Office. Johnson is dumbly espousing progressive policing theories, and righteously enabling street crime-rates in Chicago to soar. His woke rhetoric sounds great to progressives who live cotton-balled lives, who often remain largely unaffected by their political views. But his non- response to surging street crime significantly affects working-class and poor Chicagoans. Many middle-class Chicagoans unfortunately now also face genuine risk of being street-crime statistic in their formally safe neighborhoods, or when in downtown, Fulton Market, Lincoln Park,… Read more »
The police union is closer to mafia style than the looters. The union is organized strong arm organization. The looters are a bunch of crazy kids taking advantage of the fact the cops do not enforce most laws. Nothing happens to cops who do not do their jobs, nothing happens to the kids who loot. The big loser is the taxpayers, as usual.
Cops are hamstrung by City Hall policies intended to limit their policing abilities. Have you missed the CPD directives to street cops, specifically limiting their authority to question, pursue, and chase street-crime perpetrators?
Suit up & show us how its done…
Agreed. The same goes for teaching. Suit up & show us how it’s done.
Put on a uniform and sit around. I think I can do that. Not as hard as it sounds.
Trying to do what I do, that is to be paid for being productive or get fired. Get a good job and work long hours (260 days a year) and pay lots of taxes and save for retirement that you get at age 67, still not equal to what a cop or teacher gets. I have seen ex teachers try it and they do not last a week. You are expected to work in the private sector, no exceptions.
Yeah, blah, blah and blah. You betcha!
If it’s so easy and lucrative as you and others say, you should jump at the chance. Instead you prefer to just complain about cops, firefighters and teachers.
Don’t be too frightened to make a career change. You should probably look to get a union job as you are unable to even negotiate 2 measly weeks of vacation in your current position. Then again, you were probably just lying.
When cops are barred from pursing armed robbers, a police force can’t do its job
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/dakotah-earley-lawsuit/
An old family saying: “If you know not of what you speak, speak not.”
Thank your lucky stars anyone with integrity is still willing to serve in Chicago.