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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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When the original Mayor Daley, Richard J.,the one called (Boss), was in office, the Police and Fire had response times of less than 3 minutes. Every call was a priority call.
Now, not so much.
I’d like to know how “ lawless intent “ could be considered. Cleaning up crime in a city unable ( or unwilling ) to isn’t a bad thing. Let’s face it, the last three Chiefs or Superintendents of police have been unmitigated disasters: Johnson, Brown and now Snelling. Johnson relieved amid a sex scandal and found passed out ( and suspected intoxicated ) at a stop sign, Brown from Dallas in way over his head and proclaiming “ We can’t arrest our way out of crime.” and now Snelling, a police academy physical ed instructor that apparently never walked a… Read more »
There’s no improvement it’s just the way CPD reports crime that’s even if they show up for a call anymore.
Do you have evidence of number fudging that accounts for the scale of difference in the numbers?
Or is this a “Surely, they must be…”?