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Data from the Cook County medical examiner’s office shows the city is in the midst of a sustained uptick in gun-related juvenile killings. Fifty-five kids age 17 and younger have been shot to death in Chicago since the start of the year. In all of 2022, 66 juveniles were shot and killed in Chicago. In 2019, the figure was 38. The city saw 49 youth killings the following year. And in 2021, the total rose again to 58. The increase in gun-related youth homicides comes as the overall number of killings in Chicago is down more than 10% from 2022, according to Chicago police statistics.
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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This can’t be be possible with all of our restrictive gun ownership laws. I’m thinking that something else must be involved.
Gee, could being raised in a single parent home on government assistance by a parent who was raised the same way by a grandparent was raised on the dole contribute to a bad societal outcome?
I thought JB said Illinois is the greatest place to raise a family. Young people dying doesn’t seem to be so great. Was JB excluding Chicago from his statement, or was this just another JB whopper?
If this was happening in the rich suburbs or a Jewish neighborhood would police enforcement be the same? Just asking for an opinion.
It wouldn’t happen in a Jewish neighborhood.
Unfortunately, as long as bad guys can steal cars and get to different neighborhoods, the possibility is real. But you won’t see residents of those neighborhoods shooting one another.
Is this a cultural phenomenon?
Like West Ridge? Lots of crime there lately.
Culture matters buddy, culture matters.