Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Foxx said that while officers in both cases might have violated Chicago Police Department foot pursuit policies during the two incidents, there is not sufficient evidence that they committed a crime, noting that in both cases, the officers reasonably feared for their lives.
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
The families, the protesters, the news reporters, all talk about what the police did wrong and how the police should have behaved differently. Not one of them ever asks, ‘Gee, what would have happened if the kid didn’t have the illegal gun? Gee, what would have happened if the kid didn’t have the gun in his hand? Gee, what would have happened if the kid didn’t run, and actually followed the lawfully given police orders?’
Answer, they’d still be alive today.
Well, they’d still be alive unless some other gangbanger killed them between now and then.
Media coverage bemoans police shooting teenagers holding guns involved in shootings, as in the recent Little Village case or in raids as in the recent Minneapolis case. If the standard for police work allows police to shoot only after being fired upon, who will be willing to do serious police work at such risk? Police work is already becoming more dangerous. Media apparently take community leaders seriously when those leaders protest the police shooting of a teenager holding a gun when the police are called to the scene of a shooting that appears to have involved said gun. How is… Read more »
Defund the police means defund the police including making their jobs harder, demoralizing them and discouraging future officers. Crime is wildly popular in high crime neighborhoods. Police are an obstacle to committing crime. Cook County voted overwhelmingly for a non-prosecution prosecutor. Cook COunty doesn’t see high crime as a problem. Everywhere else does, of course, but most Cook County voters do not. Because crimes aren’t crimes to the progressives, crime is simply a way of life. These concepts are so completely foreign to people like us, law and order types, because who wants higher crime? Criminals want higher crime, and… Read more »