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Data shows she’s dismissed thousands of felonies that would have been pursued in the past.
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 lack of prosecution for shoplifting AND employee theft of businesses is definitely underpinning an enormous problem. What’s happening is that the police know that the crime will not be prosecuted, so they don’t even bother with the paperwork. They don’t care, because it goes nowhere. They don’t even sympathize with you, they just say “there’s nothing we’re going to do about it” and then leave. They act like the business owner is the nuisance, not the criminal. And businesses pay more taxes than anyone else for this garbage. Business owners are fed up, and like most every other Chicago… Read more »
Many chicago neighborhoods have vacant storefronts everywhere. NY does too – citizens lament the lack of stores lining major streets in town. The local rags blame it all on greedy landlords who raise rents too high waiting for national tenants. But the real reason is that no small businesses want to open in this type of atmosphere. Retail has enough problems even surviving these days. The last thing they need to eat into profit margins is shoplifting.
“For less frequent, more severe drug charges (trafficking, dealing, production), about 4,000 a year, dismissal rates have nearly doubled.” Aren’t these the types of crimes that cause violent crimes and gun crimes?
“declining to prosecute low-level shoplifting and drug offenses and by diverting more cases to alternative treatment programs.” I’d like to know what alternative treatment for shoplifting is.
The ‘reform’ should be coming from criminals who are committing crimes, not from the prosecutors who are dropping charges. This is craziness. Ironically, missing from the data is the racial component of these dropped charges? Is there a major racial disparity between the criminals who’ve had their charges reduced or dropped? Social justice demands to know if there is a racist element to this.
I know you have your tongue lodged in your cheek in your comment, but the Kim Foxx saga is just another iteration of what happens when people of mostly sub-Saharan African heritage get in charge of the two or three branches of local government. It’s tribal. Look at Baltimore, Selma, New Orleans, etc., etc. Crime goes up, crime suppression goes down, and it’s all blamed on the descendants of Europeans, who voted with their feet and sailed their lifeboats away from the sinking minority-majority ship. Culture isn’t learned. It can be parroted, but culture is genetics at the population level.… Read more »
I’m not going go down this road as it can be modified to fit the narrative for any demographic – especially against my Italian heritage for many years we italians experienced discrimination with comments like this I’m just not going to do it. The crime problems in the african community are multi-facted, some external, like lack of opportunity, and some internal, like drill rap music that glorifies gang culture among inner city youth, to absent parents and absent dads, and beyond. There’s no easy fix, but decriminalizing anti-social behavior that has been a crime since the days of Moses, to… Read more »
Drill music is pretty awful. This is Slim Jesus, with a song called Drill Time. It’s totally not safe for work. But it’s got 52,000,000 views. It’s real low budget too. They’re pointing real guns with laser scopes at the camera screaming that they kill people, do massive amounts of drugs, and impregnate women right and left. Every drill song is like is, mostly homemade or low budget, it’s the culture. This is what today’s youth is up to. The 90’s gangsta rap music – like private school billionaire Dr. Dre – is long over, and the drill music is… Read more »