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.
Violent crimes arrests are down because of one reason, an incompetent state attorney, Kim Foxx. End of explanation.
Law enforcement morale is low – why risk your life and livelihood to arrest someone who will be back on the streets before the officer files the paperwork?