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“We’ve had more than our share of downtown mass arrest incidents going back over a decade. This is not new,” Ald. Brian Hopkins said. “What is new is to have it happen three days in a row.” Activist Raul Montes went as far as urging Gov. JB Pritzker to activate the National Guard or declare martial law if the so-called takeover events continue.
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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Yep, cops cause criminality!
All talk, no action. This is what always goes on.