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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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Shouldn’t rewrite facts to fit SJW narrative. Can’t take a single nanosecond picture-frame from a body-cam video, to determine whether Toledo was armed or unarmed. Toledo had gun in his hand for nearly 100% of video-footage. He held gun several frames prior to single-frame image shown by media. This is pure media manipulation, and SJW political fraud; this suspended prosecutor would prevail in his own job-action lawsuit for wrongful disciplinary action.
Police officer is not required to allow himself to be shot first by suspect before firing his own weapon: that’s Policing 101.
“Police officer is not required to allow himself to be shot first by suspect before firing his own weapon: that’s Policing 101.” This is not policing 101. It is merely a policy position that you and many others share with the police department. It also happens to be the current policy around the country at the moment. You only call it Policing 101, but that does not make it so. Unfortunately, others, including the SJW crowd, do not share this belief, and have a different view of what Policing 101 should be. Some of the more extreme SJWs believe that… Read more »
I’m quite sure everyone has seen the video already, one question to all, especially gun owners has anyone taken notice when the gun was in the boys hand the slide was back, and has anyone noticed the picture of the gun on the ground and the slide is back in the lock position, what does that tell you.
I am not quite sure what you are getting at here.
Are you suggesting that he threw the gun away because he had just fired the last round in the clip? If so, just come right out and say so.
Yes, the last round the gun was empty my point is the media never mentions or takes notice of this.
This unfortunate fact only provides more ammunition (no pun intended) for the SJW crowd to argue that Toledo couldn’t have been a threat to the officer, because the gun was unloaded. It’s irrelevant whether the officer knew the gun was empty or not because an unloaded gun poses no threat to the officer. Toledo threw an empty gun to the ground, complied with the officer’s requests to put his hands up, and after he complied, he was murdered in cold blood. This of course is nonsense and no rational person believes this; but the SJW crowd takes their extremely flawed… Read more »
Foxx, why was the kid out so late (problem #1)? Why was the kid holding a gun (problem #2)? Why did the kid run (problem #3)? I could go on, but punishing your employee for speaking the truth is disgusting. And, arguably, what we have come to expect from your incompetence.
Like me, you’re an old man living in a new world. You see, teenagers roaming the community with handguns at all hours of the night is the reality, and the ‘lived experience’ of this community. and until you walk a mile in their shoes, you have no right to morally judge this mother, or father, or child, who prowls the street looking for their next victim. You don’t have the right to ask questions about the guns, parental involvement, the time of night or question Toledo’s actions. These questions only reflect your own lived experiences and assumptions, coming from a… Read more »
Kim Foxx is a disaster. As long as she’s around you can start demolishing Cook County correctional facilities. A slap on the wrist and a pat on the head for violent criminals is the order of the day. Who would want to work for her?