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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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Since CPD active-force itself is so thoroughly multi-cultural and diverse, HOW exactly are its Black and Brown and Asian and Gay/Female/Trans officers acting “racist”? Since CPD’s command staff is multi-cultural and diverse, HOW exactly is CPD still “racist”? A crime is a crime; if a suspect is caught in the act of committing a felony crime, or a misdemeanor, if the storekeeper says $1000+ in designer handbags were shoplifted by said suspect, HOW is CPD acting “racist”? I’m flummoxed. I’m thinking that if CPD hereon makes no arrests, therefore there’ll be no officially-recorded “crime”, for statistic-purposes, and no further “racist… Read more »
Critical race theory don’t base race just on the color of skin, its based on oppressor/oppressed status. They are saying that the entire policing system is racist, because the system is the oppressor. It doesn’t matter if the system is 100% BIPOC.
That’s how Democrats in Democrat run systems can absolve themselves of blame for their bad governance. The blame the systemic racism baked into the very systems themselves rather than, you know, the Democrats who run the systems.
It’s all total nonsense of course, because they just say that “we alone can fix the very problems we created”.
BEWARE
In your community, watch the local board, police board meetings.
Never let your community politicians change your police force by allowing the hiring of “RESIDENTS” as policemen.
“RESIDENTS” are NOT CITIZENS OF THE USA!
Fight this, protest, get the board meeting room packed.
Hey Ford, What needs to be TAUGHT in schools, neighborhoods, to criminals is respect for people, businesses, law enforcement, to obey LAWS, and the most important is for all to learn and abide by THE 10 COMMANDMENTS!
God Bless the CHICAGO POLICE!
If you all quit your Job today I do not blame you because of the sheet shoved at you on the street and politicians demeaning you!
THANK YOU CHICAGO POLICE FOR YOUR SERVICE!
Citizen wants other citizens taught how ignorance and breaking the law leads to justice (sometimes).
Take out the sometimes and you would get my up vote, but not until.
The real Racism and Ignorance keeping the police from doing their jobs emanates from our so called “leaders”.
Rep. Ford wants to change nature of policing from a blue uniform into a brown shirt. A social justice enforcement squad. It’s not about preventing and solving crime. It’s about enforcing compliance with social justice mandates. A ‘police’ force that is more concerned with social justice and critical race theory isn’t a police force at all.
You are correct…
The end game is to abolish local control of police departments…
Then the left can consolidate it’s control of the police by forming one national police force…
Thats why they are slowly & methodically undermining the local police departments legitimacy & therefore their authority…
Nailed it Joey this is right out of the COMMINUST hand book its all planned this all start with that latter day SAINT OBAMA
A crime is still a crime is nonetheless a crime, regardless of skin complexion tone – right?
Demographic-race classification should be irrelevant when arresting someone who has committed a crime. That would be genuine “equality” – being race-blind, skin-color blind.
Most suspects these days are arrested while carrying out their criminal activity, otherwise chances of being caught are almost nil except for high-profile cases.
But rules and Laws do not apply to Blacks.
crime is being legalized at every level before our very eyes.
No cash bail, felonies reduced to misdemeanors, misdemeanors ( theft under $900 worth) now legal, illegal immigration is wide open, illegals convicted of felonies are let free
A Black or minority can legally murder a White today and get away with it!
Justice? No Shameful!
There is nothing left to say. We have gone so far off the cliff with this stuff it is hard to see a way back to sanity.
Take a break then, Keep fighting for Sanity
Reporters, activists and local leaders might try embedding themselves with officers, they might learn a few things to balance out their reporting. Knee jerk glamorization of criminals isn’t helping anybody. Problems wont be fixed without looking honestly at all the different sides of the issue.
This action may or may not help the police force. But I don’t see how it would reduce crime. I suppose that the alderman would say that improved community relations would reduce crime or close cases, but I would really like to see that evidence. The police from the show Mod Squad in the 70’s – community hip and relevant – still had plenty of crime to deal with.
How about teaching the lawmakers how not to take bribes?