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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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The actual number is much higher because the do not bother to report it. Cops do nothing but waste you time. Better to get the hell out of there and go on with life than deal with the cops who only waste your time and efforts.
SAFE T kicks in Jan 1 and that number will jump to 80 robberies.
Cops do not look for trouble, they drive by drug dealers all the time.
They are only there to pick up bodies and make out reports.
The do not care who wins the war, they just want to get out alive.
Then move to Punta Gorda, Fl. like all the cops do.
These actions are Not by police choice, but the rules that have been shoved down their throats in which they now have to operate by.
Usually it’s a thing called probable cause.
Folks, the no arrests part is all you need to know.
Again, don’t leave home without it!
Hey Bob Morgan what are you doing to hinder these criminals?
At least a handful of them got what they deserved this morning via a CCW holder. Too bad this wasn’t more common.
It seems to becoming more common with two of these incidents in the last few weeks. In most places, defending yourself from criminal scum means that you yourself will be charged with the crime. But there seems to be a trend in Chicago, because well, Chicago has become Gotham City, where victims have the right to fight back. This is actually a positive development. I was at a gun training class in the suburbs several months ago and I was pleasantly surprised to see dozens of BIPOC exercising their first amendment rights. Now if they would just vote the right… Read more »
Folks, that fellow didn’t leave home without it and he was able to return home with it!