... Lari Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago...
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San Francisco:
"Mr. Clean" in San Francisco Was Paid $380,000 Per Year – It Wasn’t Enough
March 11, 2021
In 2019, we highlighted a tripling in reported human waste in the public way. Citizens filed 10,644 complaints in 2014 and the number of complaints escalated to 30,996 cases by 2019.
Our auditors mapped 118,352 case reports of human waste on city streets – from 2011 to 2019.
Certainly, the poop was deep in San Francisco, but then things really hit the fan.
And the FBI stepped in...
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Los Angeles:
Private 'UTLA FB' group warns teachers to not post vacation pics amid union's push for safe return to class
By KJ Hiramoto
Published 5 days ago
A screenshot obtained by FOX 11 shows UTLA teachers being warned to not share spring break vacation photos to social media as the union continues to push for a safe return to in-person classes.
The screenshot appears to be from a private Facebook group titled, "UTLA FB GROUP- Members Only," and it has about 5,700 members. In one of the posts from the private group, teachers from the union are being asked to not share vacation photos or show that they're traveling outside of the country.
The post, obtained by FOX 11's Bill Melugin, reads:
"Friendly reminder: If you are planning any trips for Spring Break, please keep that off of Social Media. It is hard to argue that it is unsafe for in-person instruction, if parents and the public see vacation photos and international travel."
The warning between the group members come just days after UTLA voted to not send teachers back to in-person learning unless the union's shortlist of demands is met by the district.
UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz said last that more than 90% of the nearly 25,000 union teachers being polled voted "YES" on rejecting the return of in-person learning.
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New York City:
NYC Spent Nearly Half A Million Dollars Per Inmate In 2020, Report Says
BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, MAR 12, 2021 - 21:20
The Office of the New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer published a new report outlining how the New York City Department of Corrections spent a whopping $447,337 per inmate in fiscal 2020, up more than 33% a year ago and more than doubled since 2015.
Rising costs per inmate come as violence has exploded within NYC jails. "The rate of incidents and allegations of use of force has also grown sharply, nearly doubling from FY 2018 to FY 2020," Stringer said in the report.
"The cost to incarcerate a single individual on Rikers has exploded even as our jail population remains near historic lows – yet rates of violence continue to climb," Stringer said in a statement published Wednesday. "That means we are spending more and more money to incarcerate fewer and fewer people and reducing the safety of both officers and people in custody in the process. We must reimagine our criminal legal system, dramatically reduce the pretrial population, and invest our taxpayer dollars in the resources and programs—from housing to health care—that prevent incarceration in the first place."
The core findings of the report show "the number of people in jail has fallen faster than the DOC budget and headcount, the ratio of correction officers to incarcerated individuals and the cost per incarcerated person has risen." To incarcerate a single inmate over the 2020 fiscal year costs $447,337, up from $334,864 the prior year.
Stringer, who is running to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio as mayor, has pledged if he's elected mayor, he would close jail facilities on Riker's Island. A couple of years ago, lawmakers pushed a bill through that would shut down Rikers by 2026.
Since the police killing of George Floyd, NYC has taken steps to defund the police and restructure its criminal justice system, though jail budgets have so far been maintained.
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