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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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What’s that line Democrats use, “If it saves the life of one child!” Guess what, if you break the law in front of a cop they usually have the right to pull you over…and who knows, it might actually save the life of a child.
I recently read of a person stopping for a burned out tail light being a wanted child molester on the lam. But let’s stop doing that because we don’t want to hurt the feelings or discriminate against criminals on the run.
If police officers were distributed to neighborhoods based on population and not crime, traffic stops would go down in some neighborhoods and perhaps up in others. Crime would like move in the opposite directions. I’m good with that, are they?
Anyone who thinks there are too many traffic stops in Chicago is not a resident of this galaxy. Anyone who could even form their lips to make such a proclamation has completely lost touch with reality. As a daily driver of the streets of Chicago on the far south side and east side; and as one who, in times past, frequently drove the west side and downtown streets of the city, I can say with indignation that if traffic stops increased tenfold, there still would not be enough. Thankfully my mind has been freed from de massa’s noose, and I… Read more »
Can’t agree more, Miguel, and nicely said. The expressways today seem to be totally un-patroled in Chicago.
We regularly travel from north of Rockford, Illinois to Springfield to visit grandkids on I90/39 to I 55, about 200 miles. It’s like a NASCAR race with vehicles going 90+ mph. We make a joke about how many state police we see on that ride and the number is usually zero round trip 400 miles.
It’s similar to when cops began enforcing Prohibition. As time passed it was very clear the general public hated the idea and essentially ignored it to a great extent. Enforcing laws held in widespread disdain to that extent seems a losing battle at some point. Anyone can blame law enforcement for lack of heavily policing traffic these days, but that’s become an issue that the driving public at large chooses to ignore.
Any officer who initiates a traffic stop is jeopardizing his/her life, freedom, and career.
At the end of shift officers want to return to their families, not end up a poster child for activists.
Brothers and sisters in blue – thank you!