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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul bluntly told Mayor Brandon Johnson, “I strongly urge you to reconsider these proposed cuts. ... Under the consent decree, the City must provide the `necessary and reasonable financial resources’ required to fulfill those obligations. Cutting much-needed resources from the unit within CPD responsible for developing and implementing the policies, training, and oversight required by the consent decree is directly contrary to that obligation."
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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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.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Wake up everyone Brandon doesn’t run Chicago CTU does, just like the unions run Illinois.
Simple fix. Move money from actually policing to reforming policing. Two liberal idiocies served in one fell swoop.
The city is about to be spanked big time and Johnson is OK with it! That’s how much he, and his teachers, hate the police!
“CPD’s Office of Constitutional Policing and Reform, which is charged with implementing the consent decree. The office’s staff would be cut from 65 budgeted employees to 28.”
Not really in favor of cutting the police budget but what exactly do these 65 people do? This is where you ask each one of the employees to write down what you did/accomplished this week.
You know you’re living wrong when even Kwame thinks you’re raggedy, Brandon.
I don’t think Kwame does anything without JB’s blessing.