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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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Illinois needs a state law limiting these outrageous judgements. Especially when cops are chasing someone who is driving to flee them.
LEOs should be able to do their jobs and chase after the criminals! The criminals are the ones to get sued, but the politicians who are often attorneys or have them as friends won’t vote to set a reasonable limit.
I SUGGEST: lawsuits cannot exceed 5x one’s life insurance! If a family doesn’t value one’s life, why should we?
When you hand the family of a thug like Dexter Reed, killed after shooting and wounding a police officer, 1.25M it’s no wonder that they’re going broke.
Shot at a cop, frankly I don’t care what happens to you next and that should be the courts stand!
There is a thing called DWB (driving while black). Most blacks have experience this. Police misconduct continues partially because of the Blue Line. Cops never see other cops abusing private citizens. Cops are the only people who do not have to obey the law.
Hmm.. can we have some data as to exactly whom is most likely to be pulled over for driving with expired licenses/ registration, tinted windows, burned out/ broken lights. I once was nailed for driving with my brights on as I had a low beam headlight burned out at 6 am on my way to work. I didn’t try to fight with the officer, disparage his mother or otherwise make things harder than they had to be, even though he was young, had a neck tattoo and spoke in a semi- thuggish manner.
I know what DWB means and it means driving without a valid license, or missing stickers, or windows too tinted, or no plates, or ignoring basic traffic laws, like stop signs, traffic signals and speed limits. It’s the same basic traffic laws that most people obey but in certainly neighborhoods seems to be optional. I was in court once, many years ago, for my own traffic case, and the case before me was a young man DWB. He had a suspended license The judge fined him for driving without a valid license. He looked the judge in the eye and… Read more »
Live irresponsible, drive irresponsible.
“police misconduct” My educated guess is that 80% of police misconduct is perfectly acceptable behavior in most jurisdictions in the country, and probably 95% of the rest of the first world. Cook County juries love to award $$$ to any claimant with as much as a paper cut and these Biden/Obama appointed judges allow these cases to go to trial knowing full well that there will be million dollar verdicts. This seems to be uniquely a Chicago problem. It’s not that CPD is different than any other police force in the country. It’s that every juror wants to get in… Read more »
It’s a quick way to win the lottery without even buying a ticket. Just get in a cops face-get thrown to the ground-resist arrest/etc and it’s lawsuit heaven.
Yes that’s basically it but it goes even further than that. Juries award innocent victims even more money for injuries directly caused by criminals, the rationale being that the police should haven’t chased the fleeing vehicles. For example, In 2022 there was 30 million dollar verdict against the Dolton police for a co-criminal passenger in the stolen vehicle after the driver – fleeing police – took a wrong turn down a dead end alley and ran head on into a garbage dumpster. The driver of the vehicle died and the passenger suffered serious injuries. The jury awarded millions to THE… Read more »
And because of this nonsense, and the juries, I support giving Dexter Reed 1.25 million for a frivolous case, because a jury full of south siders and a couple of AWFLs will award Mr. Reed tens of millions for his loss, saying that the police should never shot the guy. It’s the unfortunate truth, really.