Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
The average hours per work year is 2080 Hours. Divide this into 4,151,294 hours of overtime indicating that the Chicago Police Department is short about 1,995 officers if you want to eliminate overtime. I am pretty sure the union representing Chicago Police has been saying the department has been short about this number of police officers for several years.
I would love to know the actual total # of hours worked on the job for year or hrs worked on average for all my city depts (CPD, CPS, Street & San, etc, etc). Especially when claiming astronomical $OT$….One can google search away all day, but that’s never going to happen in a million years. Mysteriously press never asks. How politician claim to be for equity, efficiency, “community disinvestment”, transparency, progressives, conservatives, etc,etc is a complete joke on dopey taxpayer/homeowners. (ditto for my CC, state and fed gov services).
As city resident, there’s no shortage of cops, teachers, streets and san, etc,etc. Just crazy contracts. CPD (FOP) claim they are short 2,000 officers? But with current police force of 11,500 CPD still has 2nd or 3rd highest # of officers per capita of any major city I believe. CPD is still stand along amongst big cities having officers performing “office duty” & monitoring technology. 400 officers according to former Inspector General Ferguson? Has anything changed? It was my understanding one of CTU/Brandon campaign promises was supposed to hire civilian police force to perform those “office duty” & monitoring technology… Read more »
Great points