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"In 2016, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx kicked off her controversial tenure as the Chicago area’s top prosecutor by drastically raising the bar for charging shoplifters with a felony crime...Past studies had found no correlation between the felony threshold and property crime rates. So, in her first major policy move, Foxx felt empowered to open the door for crooks to clean out store shelves without meaningful consequences. Other liberal-minded, big-city prosecutors also decided to look the other way, and the result, predictably, was a surge in lawlessness."
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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The work boot section products remain on open shelves, no thieves want them nor do local residents.
Gee whizz do ya think any idiot could figure out what would happen?
Thank you, George Soros.
what is the added cost per item for providing Kimmie Fox Style “lock down product” retail in the systemically dis-invested B&B communities? EQUITY???….what a joke!!
Foxx has done more to harm Black communities than any white supremacist ever did.
Old Joe learned at a very early age that bad behavior had unpleasant consequences. Dad didn’t even have to hit me very hard to get his point across.