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The ordinance that Lopez introduced at Monday’s City Council meeting would make it a crime for any parent or legal guardian to “willfully and/or knowingly allow a minor in their charge to engage in a host of offenses wreaking havoc on the quality of life in Chicago neighborhoods.” Fines would range from $1,000 to $5,000, depending on the offense. All of the crimes would require offenders to perform community service and undergo “licensed family counseling.”
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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What a concept and you know what the definition of mass confusion is…….
Lopez needs to go after the social media companies propagating these events. That will get results.
Tow their cars with a $5000 impound fee instead.
Seems like we have an excess of low-IQ military aged men with little career prospects. They’d make good infantrymen. Remember, Achilles was estimated to be 15 or 16 years old when he left Greece to campaign in Troy…
Well Alderman Lopez the thoughts of fines of up to $5,000 are not in the cards for Chicagoland. To begin with there would no doubt be some sort of “relief for the poor” provision letting most if not all of the parents off the hook. Additionally, with the bail system out the window, a notice to appear in court for fines that wont be imposed simply doesn’t cut the mustard. Nice try but no cigar for you today.
Why not make this a somewhat legal sanctioned event. Find a few areas around the city where the kids can blow off some steam. Make it a safe event with ambulances/some police/food trucks. Maybe the cops can show off some of their tricked out cop cars like smoking the tires/figure eights. Be honest-How many of us burned our tires/drag raced our beaters like Buicks Skylark/ Ford Falcons/AMC Pacers/VW Rabbit-Beetle/Ramblers/Yugos/etc. Zero to 30 in 45 seconds and then being pushed to the side of the road and calling Dad to get his car. Fun times. Those were the days and how… Read more »
Legalize dangerous criminal behavior as a solution to dangerous criminal behavior.
Just about as silly as passing a law to punish people in some ‘new’ way for ripping up streets, damaging other’s property and terrorizing others because no one’s enforcing the laws we already have prohibiting that stuff.
They will do it anyway just like in the Fast and Furious movies. They will find a spot in the city somewhere and drag race/spin outs/doughnuts/whatever and when the cops show up will drive away at high speeds endangering innocent people. Right now ALL crime has been basically legalized from theft up to $1K is a slap on the wrist to no cash bail and the state’s attorney letting everyone go for select groups. Why not try a different approach? This way it may be a little safer. Laws will not be enforced and putting a large fine will not… Read more »
The ‘different’ approach to apply is actually enforcing the laws we’ve already passed, rather than finding a new way of accelerating our current behavior, and the results of it.
It was just an idea but they will do it anyway no matter what the law says but I don’t really care since I left Chicago a long time ago. Shoplifting is a crime but they do it anyway. As far as I’m concerned there is no longer any law that is enforced with the state’s attorney Chicago has. Anything goes at any time.