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The horse-riding coppers were sidelined Friday after criminals sawed the catalytic converters off of five trucks and SUVs that they use to transport themselves and their mounts across the city. Officers discovered the thefts on Friday morning at the South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 South South Shore, which serves as the unit’s home base.
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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South Shore Cultural Center?. It’s a cultural thing, you just don’t understand!
Cops only make out reports. Now they stay in the office and in a few years maybe they get back to work. This is like hitting the cop lottery. Great pay and hours and no work.
I always wanted to be a cop on a horse. I travel around and find carnivals with merry-go-rounds and then ride one of the horses and play cops and robbers. I’m such a loser as the 10yr olds usually outrun me. The merry-go-round operator threw me out of the carnival because I asked too many little boys to sit on my lap, no fun for me.