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Hometown Police say about 70 cars blocked neighborhood streets, preventing officers from getting through, while others did donuts in a mosque parking lot. Police Chief Louis Dominguez Jr. says the Chicago Police Department had just reached out to them and surrounding agencies last week in reference to street drifting. (with video)
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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Arrest the spectators and charge them with mob violence. Eventually the trend will change.
When Pritzker sees this picture all he can think about is that’s another perfectly good parking lot the union boys can repave with taxpayer money. Gotta keep the union boys happy!
Streets were blocked so cops could not respond. Sounds like a worthless excuse for not doing anything.
So then that means the criminals were trapped. And they couldn’t catch them.