Matt was on the Shaun Thompson Show on 560AM The Answer this week to talk about his recent article: “Violence prevention can’t be bought.” Matt pointed out that Chicago’s anti-violence program READI has no overall net positive effect and that actual deterrents – arrests and prosecutions – are down for many crimes.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- New CPD data: Fewer than one in five arrests for some major crimes in Chicago
- Violence prevention can’t be bought
- Chicago’s unserious marketing efforts
- Fresh CPD data: No, Chief Brown, carjackings are not down in Chicago. Not anymore.
- Chief Executive Magazine ranks Illinois third-worst state for doing business, yet Illinois politicians think businesses will move here because of…“equity!”
- Chicago car thefts spike sharply in 2022, up 100% along lakefront compared to 2019
- Close the revolving door for high-risk offenders in Cook County
A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
The gang shooting video and Foxx denying charges based on “mutual combatants” was the end. I’ll never visit from Southern Illinois again and as soon as my caregiving days are over I’m out of this state of delusion.
I dont like saying this but I believe that the cops have finally realized that with Foxx running the states attorneys office why bother actually trying to arrest criminals. Never ending demands for more evidence, no video? Oops too bad. Dropping cases and refusing to prosecute after spending hours and hours chasing leads leaves them burned out and the attitude of “why give a damn”. Most of the violent crime issues involve the protected class anyway so the loss to society is minimal.