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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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So this former police officer has his head stuck up his anal region. Fact of the matter in 2024 it is estimated that the Cnicago police had approx 4,000,000 interactions with citizens. This involves all interactions from taking a report to answering a call for service, traffic stops, street stops, arrests, search warrants, arrest warrants and more. In 2024 the CPD was involved in 9 police involved shootings, 9, less than 1 a month with 6 wounded and 3 killed. The lie of the police on a rampage killing black people is just that, a lie. In 2023 with approx… Read more »
Young black men, and others, get killed because it’s been drilled into their heads that when pulled over or otherwise stopped, it’s okay to be combative, resist, run without fear of pursuit and whip out a gun when caught. That’s how people are winding up on a slab, not because of the “ predatory cops “ narrative that the underserved are always pushing.