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Chicago will end the year with at least 723 people murdered, a 13% decrease from last year but still more than any other American city. Overall the number of reported crimes has risen by more than 12% from last year, unnerving residents, sending some businesses packing and complicating the city’s efforts to recover from the economic crisis brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak.
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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Heyjackass is at 729 homicides and we’ve still got NYE to go. I’m gonna predict 733 homicides for the year.
Note to Hoodrats: Hit the sack by 10 pm on NYE and you’ll be able to ring in the New Year above room temperature!
731 as of 7am Saturday, good chance for your prediction to come true. Go Chalkie Go!!
732 @ 1:30pm……. GO, GO, CHALKIE!
So, Chicago has less than one-third of the population than NYC but more murders? That’s an incredibly negative and depressing statistic for Chicago.
A solution, farmer Jones who lives in a very rural area and spends his day working his 200 acres of corn, wheat, soybeans has a firearm given to him by his father in 1968. The firearm has a magazine capacity of 15 rounds, farmer Jones takes his grandchildren out occasionally to shoot at targets in his field and keeps the firearm as a form of protection since the local sheriff’s department has no patrols or officers available from 1am to 7am. Farmer Jones will become a violent, out of control criminal when HB5855 goes into effect. The state police SWAT… Read more »
Farmer Jones probably lives in a Second Amendment Sanctuary County, and in the unlikely event state officials decide to go after Farmer Jones, his local officials will protect him, and refuse to cooperate with the state officials, and the local county prosecutor will likely refuse to bring charges. So they can arrest him but unless Kwame himself plans on prosecuting the case, Farmer Jones is probably safe from having any issues. County resources from HB5855 will be spent going after conservative suburbanites that are the enemies of local officials and progressive groups. Your progressive activist, short haired harpy neighbor, with… Read more »
The years not over.
The words Safe and Chitty of Chicago do not belong in the same sentence.