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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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Related to this article is the book Rogue Prosecutors by Smith and Stimson. Explains how Soros lawyers like Kim Foxx, Alvin Bragg, and George Gascon make sure victims get no justice.
Foxx opened the jailhouse door from day one. She dismissed cases for violent crimes, advocated for electronic home monitoring or ankle bracelets….and demoralized officers retired early or transferred after Foxx became the state’s attorney. The policies and leadership of Kim Foxx, the governor, Lori Lightfoot, Toni Preckwinkle, and Mayor Johnson are toxic.
Cops are no different than any other overpaid, unproductive, leeching public sector employees. Somebody oughta DOGE the heck out of every police department in America.
My police department here in Indiana has good guys. I did a ride-along with an impressive officer. In one afternoon–two road rage incidents, one burglary, and a case of an incoherent man who kept annoying people at the mall. Having lived in Chicago, just think it is fantastic when someone shows up and there’s a response.
Readers have stopped commenting on this article, but I just wanted to clarify one thing. I did not mean to imply anything disrespectful about Chicago police officers. It is just my impression that Chicago is overwhelmed with crime and that Chicago does not have enough police officers. Also, I believe the policies and leadership in Chicago do not support the police enough.
It’s Chicago so the most important thing is to care for illegal aliens, fund projects that are a waste of money, figure out more ways to tie the hands of the police from doing their job, turn the so called justice system into a revolving door and spend, spend, spend while the city’s wallet is empty. Now worrying about arresting murderers, that’s at the bottom of the list.
Crimes can only be solved if the community participates. So if the community does not step up, don’t expect these crimes to be solved.
I wonder what the conviction rate for those 141 arrests were
This is a feature, not a bug. The ‘hood has it’s own private justice system. If shot your neighbor in Bartlett, they’d have you arrested and thrown in jail almost immediately. But in Cook County, you can shoot your neighbor, and hit a couple of bystanders, and it will likely never be solved…
I’ve said this to people in a roundabout way: Chicago’s abysmal “Clearance” rate, means that Chicago is FULL of murderous people.