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A new video surfaced showing men claiming to be violence interrupters heckling and interfering with Chicago cops who were arresting a man accused of illegally carrying a gun with an extended ammunition magazine. This isn’t the first time violence interrupters have wound up on the wrong side of troubling situations.
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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Your tax dollars at work. Sincerely thank a cop when see them folks.
A jobs program.
Violence interruptors are cons two steps away from the pen and friends of friends of Panic Attacks.
“A former Obama Administration official excused his conduct by saying the man “mishandled the stress” of being a violence prevention worker.”
So, cops get the same absolution then, right?
Reminds me of how the city was paying the Gangster Disciples years ago. The results are the same.