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The key to breaking the cycle of arrest-jail-repeat is linking people with the services they need, writes the head of the Lawndale Christian Legal Center. And that make us all safer.
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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This theory has been tried for decades and proven wrong. Accountability for one’s actions is the only thing that stops stupid behavior
“The key to breaking the cycle of arrest-jail-repeat” IS LONG PRISON TERMS.