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If there are going to be significant changes in the controversial SAFE-T criminal-justice reform bill, they won’t be coming from County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. In the COVID-19 pandemic, Preckwinkle says, “the society frayed at the edges,” with crime rates up markedly not only in the Chicago area but nationally, including in some very tough law-and-order jurisdictions. What’s needed, she said, is not just law enforcement but “more accountability” by police, the closure of more outstanding criminal cases in Chicago and investment in long-neglected neighborhoods and communities, which she termed “the long-term solution."
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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Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but everyone supporting this has armed guards! Hmmm….
Well hopefully Toni will get a taste of her own medicine like Lightford did……
This is beyond wishful thinking – some would call it idiocy. But this is Chicago.
No one discusses the victims of the criminals.
A good reporter would ask these pro-criminal politicians for the statistics that justify their actions.
Outrageous stupidity from Preckwinkle.
She doesn’t care. She doesn’t even have a Republican challenger. Her only challenger is a libertarian who I don’t have ever won any office in the county.
I’ll vote for the Libertarian.
That’s a wasted vote.
Well at least she’s consistently stupid.