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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 calls for police assistance go unanswered, there will be a drop in reported crimes.
That’s a no-brainer.
Credit for the “drop” in crime is more likely due to fewer police available to respond, not the “violence interruptors.”
Could it be that the drop in hotspots was due to the fact that thugs have widen their target areas? There were no “peacekeepers” on the street when a young man was shot and killed the other night in Lincoln Park by alleged package-thieves.
Nothing but left media bullshit.
Any mention of the 40 + people discovered injured/ murdered well after the fact in areas previously served by ShotSpotter? I thought not. No reports of crime = lower crime, right Dems?
Looks promising, however the article doesn’t say how researchers established causality.