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Every weekend for nearly nine months, a McKinley Park resident has felt the walls of her home rumbling from the power of souped-up cars revving their engines nearby. The meetups — known as street takeovers — draw crowds of 100 to 150 people and can last from midnight until 3:30 a.m. Such gatherings were supposed to have been addressed in July 2022, when the City Council empowered the Chicago Police Department to impound vehicles involved in the street stunts.
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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The police need to get smart about this. They need to make examples out of these kids. Nabbing one or two isn’t going to do it. Get some undercover officers in there to video all the cars. Bring in the snowplows and block all the streets. Tow every one of them that are on video and whack them with big fines.
Cops chase drivers in violation of general order, gets fired. Cops try to stop event and scuffles break out, cop gets fired. Suspects run away on foot cop chases and gets fired for violating general order. Cop does nothing, has no problems.
Import the third world, become the third world.
And how dare you judge these third world values as inferior than your own.
Must be the night shift employees at a local hospital on break. Or the Amish and Swedes just funnin around after a night of hard drinking.