Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Of course they did. This is one of their important constiuencies.
I mentioned this before and no one seemed to pick up on it and most of the cops around in Chicago at the time are probably retired, but in the late 70s/early 80s Chicago police officers at roll call started to notice new officers were passing gang signs. After an investigation, CPD realized they were being infiltrated by gang members. To combat this, CPD required new applicants be a minimum 23 years old and have 60 college credit hours. Once CPD felt the situation was under control, CPD reduced the minimum age back to 21 years, but kept the 60… Read more »
This way you can’t cross reference the Gang Database with CPD applicants. Infiltration will be completed within 5 years.
The problem with the gang database is that it was created for an era where gangbangers joined organized gangs affiliated with either people or folk, gangs with name recognition. Gangs like these still exist but the average gangbanger these days is only slightly more organized than a handful of neighborhood males who gather on a regular basis to basically do hard drugs, party with local females and commit crimes. And really, most males in the neighborhood are in a gang, that gang being the 4-5 males they hang around most, and the wider group of the dozens that are around.… Read more »
Law enforcement is trapped in the gap between rubber hoses and constitutional rights. It’s fundamentally an unbridgeable gap. Society cannot afford and will not pay the cost of everyone having a competent lawyer to joust with a competent prosecutor. Plea bargaining saved us for a while but then Soros funded prosecutorial candidates’ [falsely]-advertising their way into office. Unions and the criminal defense bar quickly and correctly read the tea leaves and ignorant voters can only paw the ground like a Pomeranian who pooped on the golf green, In the past, sometimes, voters would find a clean up guy with a… Read more »