Chicago’s bail policy lets professional bad guys terrorize community with ‘no constraints’: police veteran – FOX News

"You talk about whether or not criminals are gaming the system by taking advantage and exploiting this no-cash bond system, the SAFE-T Act, as it's called. Absolutely," retired chief detective Eugene Roy said. "They are professionals at what they do. They're as professional at what they do – whether it's committing armed robberies, burglaries, auto thefts, shootings – they're just as good at doing that as the police are at doing their jobs, except there's no constraints on the bad guys."

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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.

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