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More than 900 complaints were filed against officers between May 26 — the date of the first protest after the murder of Floyd by a police officer in Minnesota — and June 29, the last day for which records were available. On June 4 alone the city reported 99 complaints against officers
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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“During a May 31 demonstration in Hyde Park, activist Amika Tendaji said she and her teenage daughter were struck with a batons in the head and chest by officers. Tendaji did not file a complaint with police or COPA, saying, “I, like many other people, have no faith in COPA to [conduct] a diligent investigation.”
BS answer. She was either too lazy or they weren’t really “struck” with batons.
I have to think many people filed complaints over petty actions by CPD only because they were more interested in a complaint count than actual justice.
Watching people hit by batons is fun! Caning is good too!＼(°o°)／
As a kid if I came home and told my father a cop had whacked me with the nightstick he would gave told me that maybe I got some sense knocked into me and the he would give me a couple of slaps for getting in trouble.
That’s cool, rick1099. (θ‿θ)