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"In passing the Pretrial Fairness Act, Illinois is making a valiant effort to restore the presumption of innocence to the roughly 175,00 people that are incarcerated pretrial every year in the state. They are also joining a national movement to improve the criminal justice system by getting money out of it."
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 first example of this restoration of the “presumption of innocence” was a woman who pepper sprayed CPD members who were then more than justified in arresting her. She was released under the new no cash bail policy. Did she commit a crime? Yes. Was she violent? Yes. Does she represent a threat to specific members of the community? Yes. If this is the how the model works, what we just learned is that the law matters even less now in this jurisdiction. The criminals will see that quickly, and the thin veneer of deterrence to crime will further erode.… Read more »