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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 POC aldermen on Lightfoot’s leaked conference call from last summer, immediately after Chicago’s riots and looting spree, indicated that “community” WANTS more policing, more enforcement of misdemeanor shoplifting, theft, destruction of property, car-jackings, street drug sales, etc. Heard no BLM rhetoric in call. But did listen to several alderwomen in near-tears discussing the genuine harm done to their residents by the deliberate destruction of their neighborhood Walgreens, food stores, and retailers. They were deeply dismayed, to have finally realized active retail-strips in their wards, now damaged and likely not to reopen…
If these communities don’t trust police, why do they call 911? Seems that many of the confrontations between cops and criminals start with a 911 call from the community.
Maybe one of these woke liberal cities should actually put their theories to a test. Set up an alternate emergency number for reaching the alternate “peace keepers” they claim to prefer. Keep the 911 system for calling police, so the community can choose which to call. Let’s see which system logs more emergency calls.
Baby mama dramas are about 50% of the calls to 911. The never ending he be, she be, I be, they be calls are what overload the 911 system. 98% of those calls are not police matters, just social services. Send in the SWAT team, Social Workers And Therapists to handle these non criminal in incidents.
Funny he’s taking one right out of Welch’s playbook, we must get the people of Illinois to trust us, ha ha ha.