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"Violent crime on the CTA spiked during the pandemic, and still hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels. Even as transit ridership began to recover from 2023 to 2024, rates of violent crime per million trips actually increased."
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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Didn’t get the memo? If Homie says crime is down, then crime is down and to prove otherwise makes you a racist.