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“The kind of justice I’m drawn to now is proactive,” Former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx wrote. “It’s not about punishment after harm, but about the systems, structures, and strategies that prevent harm from occurring in the first place. What if we became willing — strategically and morally — to absorb some harm in service of a greater good?”
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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He called he the “B” word and he was right.
She charged someone with a felony for throwing a drink on her, but the same week thugs attacked a couple causing the women to miscarry. They were charged with a misdemeanor. How is that legal?
woke justice
Why even cover her ambitions. Let her fade into the sunset
Sounds like a pitch for higher public office, albeit in Foxx’ case it’s more like a threat. Anyone who thinks that this Soros funded mental midget came up with this PR piece without some serious AI input probably voted for her.
The Cook County States Attorneys office would regularly reduce felony charges or reject charges like the one ones the root beer man is facing when victims were beaten, , stabbed or even shot. It is laughable on so many levels that the charge of aggravated battery in a public place was dropped on this guy because it was Miss Entitled Foxx who got doused. I would guarantee, bet my life savings that if a cop presented this charge to Felony Review to,have charges approved they would be laughed at and then kicked out of the room. What Foxx did by… Read more »
He got her right in the hairdo — “unbe-weave-able.”
Someone absolutely did a horrible job cropping little Kimm’s face on that picture, phenomenal my ass more like horrible.