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Judges saw missed court dates, new arrests, and multiple violations of pretrial release conditions. Yet each time, he was allowed out, although he was often supposed to be on electronic monitoring, even after he failed to comply with that program.
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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How many crimes on the innocent public must be reported that includes these words “cycled through multiple arrests and electronic monitoring before latest rampage”…must happen before the people wake up and vote for change. The background to these stories more often than not, end this this statement. Illinois Law makes no sense and puts the common tax payer at risk every day.
Another Dem enabled op to keep us all on edge.
He should have been put out of his misery
years ago by placing him permanently in
a secure psychiatric facility.
Not an illegal immigrant, but a homegrown Chicagoan.
And?
Yes, we’ve known for a long time about home grown criminal groups. But a substantial subset of criminals are illegal aliens.