Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Data provided by the chief judge’s office shows that since bail reform, judges have granted detention petitions from prosecutors about 60 percent of the time. People who are released have continued to show up for hearings, with an arrest warrant being issued in only about 10 percent of cases when someone fails to show up. And 88 percent of people released have not been charged with a new crime. Of those who did, 4 percent picked up a case for a crime involving violence.
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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
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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.
Spin your wonderful success story to those victimized by a repeat felon sporting the electronic monitoring device he hasn’t yet removed, out doing what he does best when he’s supposed to be confined at home.
Only 4% of those released are caught again for committing violent crimes? In what crazy messed up world is 4% of released folks committing additional violent crime considered a success? And 12% go on to commit more crimes in general? Each and everyone of these are preventable crimes by keeping the perp locked up pretrial if they can’t make bond. This is insanity. Your leaders just want fewer mostly black folx in jail. And they’ve decided that career criminals committing crimes is just a price society is going to have to pay. And if that career criminal victimizes YOU while… Read more »