Wirepoints and others made a laundry list of things that were wrong with the SAFE-T Act. Supporters said we were wrong, racist, etc. Yet every one of those things we pointed out has been changed. – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer

Ted was on Chicago’s Morning Answer with Dan and Amy to talk about the hypocrisy of SAFE-T Act proponents calling criticism of the Act wrong and racist…then turning around and enacting those changes, why cashless bail is a massive experiment affecting the lives of black Chicagoans and the sad milestone of 1,000 days under Gov. Pritzker’s Covid executive orders.

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PlunkYourMagicTwangerFroggy
3 years ago

No amendments to this ill planned law will make it better. If enacted there will be chaos in the court systems and police agencies throughout the state. Many counties are not equipped with the staff to comply, many police agencies do not have the funding to follow the requirements about body cameras where data storage can be very expensive. The public will suffer as courts systems try to comply and many violent criminals will be released while will seek revenge on the victims/witnesses involved. A person getting arrested that faces no consequences has no reason to change their behavior.

Fed Up Taxpayer
3 years ago

Well if SOME of Uihleins money and SOME publicity and SOME GOP support would have gone to Devore and Bailey, we wouldn’t be in this mess, would we?

P:K
3 years ago

Brilliant! I can’t wait to get the heck out of IL..

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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

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.

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