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While some residents and village trustees have urged the police department to change the patch, citing the Thin Blue Line imagery's use by white nationalists and other far-right groups, police leadership has held firm on keeping it. "To me, it's about honor, it's about pride, it's about kinship ... I even said it's about love," Officer Lisa Schaps said on Fox News.
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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Mt Propsect PD should pull their officers out of the schools until this is reversed.
District 214 board Cowards!