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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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They will all be broken in less than a week.
This is just another way of giving away taxpayer money to a local contractor for a huge bribe of some kind.
Barbara Byrd Bennett is the intent of the cameras to protect the children from teens and young adults, or the teachers.
Hmm, I should go into the security camera business.
A little perspective is needed though. When Old Joe went to Catholic school in Detroit in the 60s there wasn’t one security camera or school resource officer. There was Sister Mary Knuckles though to keep order. What changed in 60 years?
Strange, we had a Sister Mary Knuckles too.
Worked then; wouldn’t work now.
This will do nothing to enhance safety in CPS. The only use would be evidence after the fact.
Faint solace for grieving families.
Cameras don’t enhance safety, but it surely enriches someone – $229,607 per school? That’s a lot of cameras and screens!
Every school should employ an armed police officer – that would at least be a deterrent. Cameras have little to no value.
CPS banned cops from campus last year– let them handle the shit storm they made
76 million to install some cameras at just 331 schools?
Will the camera footage be used to throw criminals in jail? Of course not, so it’s a waste of money
Does anyone really think this will solve anything? If Lil Kim won’t charge anyone, why take pictures? Maybe they can at least use the photos for the yearbook.