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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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“enforcement in those areas will focus on the investigation and prosecution of offenses including illegal firearm possession, drug trafficking, robberies, carjackings and other violent crimes.”
This presumably means feds will be doing what CPD and CCSO are supposed to be doing. What duties are the feds deprioritizing so that they can do this?
Crime prevention = law enforcement. Arrest and charge criminals.
Hmm……..I wonder if Bernie Goetz by his foresight prevented violence from occurring to other people?
If they arrest all of these people, there will be no riders on public transportation.