Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Since 2019, about 3,300 officers have retired, resigned, were fired – or lost their lives while wearing the badge – according to data from the Chicago Department of Human Resources. And since 2019, Chicago has hired about 1,600 officers – about half the amount of the departures.
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Wait. Under SAFE T if an officer fails to activate the body camera they are committing a felony under that law. I can only imagine the gleefully shouts and fist bumping Kim Foxx and her staff will engage in when they indict a few cops.
I hope all the good ones leave for the suburbs. Even though there are plenty of snowflake moms in the collar counties who feel guilty about their lifestyle, there are still enough hardworking men and women who don’t want to see their towns turn into the crapfest that is Chicago. Keep the gangbangers in Chiraq where they belong. Police the living hell out of the suburbs.
However those snowflake moms vote creating a lot of problems in this state.
They couldn’t pay me enough to do a cop’s job even before all the BS that’s been foisted upon them. paperwork, loss of immunity, rules that make it impossible to do your job, threat of defunding, and the ever increasing use of police for political purposes like dragging a pastor out of his home at gunpoint a year after he peacefully protested at an abortion clinic. When they start using me as a political party enforcer and at the same time tell me I’m dirt, that’s it, time to retire.
“They couldn’t pay me enough”
Agreed. Their low pay even with overtime and their pension still isn’t enough. They will either need to improve the working conditions or they should start to increase pay and sweeten those pensions.
Yes the bureaucrats have handed cops a perfect reason to go fetal. Follow the rules to the letter. Go slow to calls unless it’s an officer down, etc. Quiet quitting cops as well as the ones that really quit.
This situation was brought about by “enlightened progressive Democratic Party” leadership. They have so “handcuffed” the cops that nobody wants to be the Chicago Police. The better ones leave if they can and the public is stuck with fetal burned out jaded cops or worse — people who got no business wearing the blue.
It should be obvious to the average citizen that protecting you and your property is really not a priority. All Lori really cares about is making sure us Northsiders continue to pony up our property taxes for everything under the sun except police protection.