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"Chicago's impound program has violated residents' rights for far too long," Institute for Justice senior attorney Diana Simpson said in a press release. "Innocent owners should not face sky-high fines and fees for others' actions, and the city should not treat its car owners as a revenue source."
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.
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.
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Byrd’s case is fishy, especially in light of the fact that the new deputy superintendent of the CPD’s niece was caught driving auntie’s luxury car with a known felon that chucked what proved to be drugs out of the car window before she finally stopped for the police. She also took pains to inform the officers that they “ probably work for my aunt.” That recent incident never made the media. Not a peep from the ACLU about the discrepancy between the two cases, either. Hmm..
You must be referring to Yolanda Talley, who as head of the CPD’s internal affairs division got her car back immediately, and the officers who made the drug bust got benched. Yep, it’s all a part of The City That Works.
Yep, she’s thoroughly despised by the ranks and file of the CPD. Good ol’ YoLo, the DEI, protected species hire.