Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Marc Morial: "Like many cities in the 1990s, New Orleans was plagued with violent crime, and the murder rate was at an all-time high. Even worse, the city’s police force was so corrupt that officers both good and bad were seen as protectors of an irreparably broken system. I had watched well-intentioned leaders fail because they lacked a clear vision or a plan to bring that vision to life."
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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
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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.
Cities in the United States with the highest murder rates in 2023 (murders per 100,000 people) are:
St. Louis, MO (69.4)
Baltimore, MD (51.1)
New Orleans, LA (40.6)
Detroit, MI (39.7)
Cleveland, OH (33.7)
Las Vegas, NV (31.4)
Kansas City, MO (31.2)
Memphis, TN (27.1)
Newark, NJ (25.6)
Chicago, IL (24)
… and Chicago is supposed to aspire to emulate New Orleans?
You’ve said all that needs to be said…well done.
Chicago has a higher murder per capita rate if you focus only on the communities committing nearly all the murders. The north and northwest sides have murder rates comparable to western Europe. The hispanic neighborhoods have slightly higher rates than the north and northwest sides, but still far lower than the black neighborhoods. This averages out the insanely high murder rates of 70, 80 per 100,000 on the south and west sides.