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GOP public safety bills face big challenge in legislature, but future of Chicago - entire state - may depend on them
House Republicans face a herculean task of moving a package of public safety bills recently introduced in a legislature where the Democrats, who late last year approved the controversial SAFE-T Act, have a super majority in both chambers.
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Reliable police tool that detects gun shots could be on chopping block under new mayor
A gunshot detection software, ShotSpotter, that police rely on – and have praised --to respond more quickly to potential crime scenes may be eliminated under mayor-elect Brandon Johnson.
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The Manhattan Institute enrolls 524 undergrads
At the Manhattan Institute, 53 percent of undergraduate students are traditional students - age 24 or younger - and 73 percent are female, according to the latest disclosure from the U.S. Department of Education.
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Chicago’s incoming racial justice officer, Candace Moore, championed SB 100, other controversial equity causes
Chicago's incoming chief equity officer, Candace Moore, has fashioned much of her short legal career around a now repudiated Obama-era policy that racism is to blame for the inordinate disciplining and poor academic performances of many black students.
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Analyst: Preckwinkle's 'thinking on crime is wrongheaded in every important respect'
Rafael A. Mangual says he wonders if Chicago would be in good hands with Toni Preckwinkle as its next mayor.
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Manhattan Institute scholar: Fathers, not more programs, are what’s needed for Chicago schools
The administration, not the kids, will be the big winner from a new $10 million pilot program aimed at Chicago’s most vulnerable public schools, according to Heather MacDonald, a Manhattan Institute scholar who has written extensively on the nation’s public schools.
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Rafael Mangual calls for tougher sentencing to combat Chicago's crime rate
Rafael Mangual believes Chicago’s criminal justice system is exacerbating Chicago’s crime rate by letting repeat offenders out too soon.
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Mangual: Why Chicago Can’t Get a Handle on Deadly Shootings
Over the course of a deadly weekend on Chicago’s South and West sides — during which 74 people were shot, 12 of whom were killed — there were, according to the Chicago Tribune, six shootings that “injured four or more people in a single attack,” the largest of which “wounded eight people.”
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City Journal: Pfleger should hold Chicago's 'criminal class' not 'social-welfare bureaucracy' accountable
A recent anti-violence march that shut down the Dan Ryan Expressway was the "right cause" but the "wrong target,” an urban affairs magazine declared.
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In battle for success, school discipline doesn't have to come at the expense of safety
In the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school that left 17 students dead and 15 others injured, questions are being raised about the role new disciplinary procedures may have played in allowing the alleged shooter to plot his mayhem without detection.
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Manhattan Institute housing pro questions value, legitimacy of affordable housing push in Chicago
Howard Husock is almost as shocked that seven Chicago aldermen are pushing to bring more affordable family housing to their working-class neighborhoods as he is that such programs still even exist given what he sees as their overwhelming ineffectiveness.
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California pension cases called unlikely to affect Illinois
Two California appeals court rulings that public employee pensions may be changed so long as the changes are "reasonable" will probably not cause ripple effects in Illinois despite its need for some kind of financial miracle, a government watchdog researcher said recently.
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Constitutional abuses cited in Chicago PD review
The Chicago Police Department routinely engages in a pattern of excessive and sometimes-deadly force in violation of the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) charged in a recent report.
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When cities are at the financial brink: A case for 'intervention bankruptcy'
With the number of local governments and major cities in the throes of insolvency now sharply on the rise, a growing number of economic experts are calling for creative measures to give hard-hit municipalities their best chance of survival.