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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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Horrible justice policies were prosecuting criminals and sending them to prison
How about instead, Foxx the woke fool, try to focus on the evidence and prosecutions?
Keep spreading that BS around Kim. You’ll have the prettiest garden in a city destroyed by violence.
The state legislature needs to hold rogue prosecutors like her accountable. By declining to prosecute crimes, she is defacto changing the state penal code using her own discretion. She thinks she has a license to do so by the voters yet she TOOK AN OATH to uphold constitution. Recall!
The only relevant piece of data is the number of violent crimes committed by perpetrators with a history of encounters with a criminal justice system that released them back into the community.
When almost all offenders are first -time offenders, I will consider the possibility that too many people are being incarcerated. But as long as the situation is exactly the opposite, I will stick with the opposite conclusion- that far too many are let out.
“…we saw the institution of some horrific criminal justice policies [of the 80’s and 90’s] that devastated and had intergenerational impacts on the same communities that are seeing violence today…” You know she is a communist when she says the policies devastated communities. These policies dropped the murder and violent crime in these very same communities IN HALF in the early 2010’s from their high points in the 1990’s. VIOLENT CRIME CUT IN HALF as repeat offenders from the 80’s and 90’s and 00’s had long prison terms. But she laments that violent and habitual criminals were put in jail.… Read more »
“Despite two years of surging violence, Cook County must continue criminal justice reform rather than revert to policy solutions based on fear of crime, State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said”
Like every communist ideologue, destruction is the point. They see the devastated landscape and they only want more. And when the people become frightened and angry, they lie to your face, and say it’s not crime, it’s the fear of crime…
These communists must be run out of office and imprisoned. Her behavior is criminal.
Maybe Cook County should exploring the idea of the state attorney prosecuting criminals and judges sentencing those found guilty of serious crimes to long terms in a place called prison. Perhaps sending a message and removing the worst of society would have an impact.
Stop making so much sense. You will trigger a Leftist.
You said “trigger”. Is that all you can say is violent things? You must be a violent, racist conservative