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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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When the government can’t meet standards they have set, they will lower them based on my 30 years in government service.
As I regularly point out, in no other country on earth would this officer be charged with murder. The crazy old lady was pretty clearly trying to lure the officers into the house to throw boiling hot water on them. In any other country on earth, this police action would be reported as exactly this, a police action to neutralize a threat, and everyone would move on. Only in America, our post-BLM America, where racial animosity, regardless of the underlying facts, is used to stir the pot and create racial division and anti-police hatred.
Oh, wow! No. This is BLATANT murder. She was having a mental health crisis. She wasn’t going to throw water on them, and if she did there was plenty of room to move back!
I cannot ever take you seriously again.
Sorry, but I doubt any of us know whether she was going to assault the officer or not, and I doubt that falling back when attacked is a part of police protocol. It is unfortunate that this happened the way it did, but to expect police to be social workers, paramedics, counselors and so on while trying to diffuse a dangerous situation is asking a bit much.
“but to expect police to be social workers, paramedics, counselors and so on while trying to diffuse a dangerous situation is asking a bit much.” The only thing expected in that scenario was to not shoot.
I watched the video twice. Without a doubt, she had no intention of throwing the hot pan of water at those officers. I am a big supporter of law enforcement. There are bad guys who wear the uniform and after reading about this officer, he seems to fit that bill.
This reminded me of the McDonald shooting. Completely egregious.
So you’re saying that this officer, who showed up on a call, knowing the entire interaction was being filmed, decided in premediation, that he was just going to shoot and murder an elderly lady for no reason? So the gang banger who shoots his enemy, or the serial killer who stalks his victim at a truck stop, committed the same crime as this officer, who was a little nervous on the trigger, when facing a threat of a crazy lady boiling a pot of water for no reason, repeating weird stuff like “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus!!… Read more »
“repeating weird stuff like ‘I rebuke you in the name of Jesus'” You may not realize this, but this would not be a “weird” expression among Evangelical/Fundamentalist/Charismatic Christians who believe that demons exist and who routinely rebuke them in the name of Jesus. Given the stressful and frightening nature of the situation, and the fact that Sonya Massey did have ongoing mental health issues, I suspect she was attempting to rebuke some kind of demonic or evil presence — whether real or imagined, it was real enough to her — NOT the officer himself. As for why she was boiling… Read more »