Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Crumbs. Police officers in Chicago should be making 150K to 200K per year. That salary in exchange for moving them to 401K’s would be the tradeoff I’d sign onto. The job is too dangerous, too micro-managed, too fraught with legal risk for the cop to be worth anything less. In the IT sector there are programmers working from home pulling down 150K, their biggest risk is a little carpal tunnel syndrome pain.
None of this matters unless the Politicians actually back the police when it counts. The police are not a political foil to be brought out when one wants to further an agenda.
Here’s a program from Rockford. It seemed like a good idea but most of the violence is from drive by shooting/carjackings and the thugs just commit crimes a few blocks over from where the officer lives. The cops hold block parties on occasion to get to know each other but a lot of criminals are from out of town. It helps a little but many more homes are needed along with more beat cops walking around high crime areas.
https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-rope-community-policing-elgin-rockford.html
Nobody wants the cop job due to the never ending attacks by the elected elite who think the cop job is like working in a controlled office setting. Policing has been described as hours of boredom with 15 minutes of pure terror thrown in for fun. Don’t expect $5000 to entice anyone to move to Chicago and sign up for the job.
CPD beat cops are never bored, they run from one unanswered call to another for 8 to 12 hour shifts, dealing with degenerates and deadbeats along the way. Suburban cops are more likely to sit around eating donuts.
Hah! Overpaid alderman wants people to risk their lives for a pittance.