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The Bill Bennett Show

Chicago Needs Our Attention

The Bill Bennett Show

Bill Bennett

News, Government

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Bill Bennett Podcast, Heather Mac Donald talks about the rise in violence in Chicago and why isn't it getting the attention it deserve? She's the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of The War on Cops and the forthcoming "The Diversity Delusion." Also Terry Pell, president at the center of individual rights, gave his thoughts on the implementation of the Janus Supreme Court Decision. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome back to the Bill Bennett Show. It's the podcast that helps you

0:04.9

understand and translate Donald J Trump, among other things.

0:09.0

Joining me today is Heather Macdonald. She's the Thomas W Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

0:14.3

She's a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of the war on cops.

0:18.3

And a new book will be coming out called The Diversity Delusion.

0:21.1

Look forward to that.

0:22.1

We're going to talk about the rise in violence in Chicago. diversity delusion

0:25.0

and a few weeks ago, a few weeks ago, the terrible murders there.

0:27.0

Why is this continuing to happen?

0:29.0

How can it be fixed?

0:30.0

Why isn't more attention being paid to it?

0:32.0

And that Supreme Court decision I've been telling you about, the Janus decision,

0:36.1

which could have a major impact on unions, public sector unions, especially teachers

0:41.0

unions in the United States.

0:43.4

We'll discuss that further with an expert, Terry Pell.

0:46.8

He's the president at the Center for Individual Rights.

0:49.2

He'll give us his thoughts on the implementation of this decision, how states are going to fight it, how states are going to fight it how unions are going to fight it and what it all comes to

0:57.0

First I'd like to discuss a few things please pay close attention to what Heather McDonnell has to say.

1:02.6

She is one of the most, I think she is the best informed person on police work

1:06.3

in this country, violence in this country, causes of domestic violence in this country.

1:10.8

She speaks with great passion and great authority and has plenty to say.

1:16.0

And it's worth listening to the tragedy of Chicago, the catastrophe that seems to be Chicago every weekend requires our attention and

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