[drzaiusapelord]

This stuff is very common, especially here in Chicago with the unions running a fairly corrupt machine. I really wish something could be done. We're taxed hard and money is spent in reckless ways by the government like this. Doesn't seem fair to those of us who actually work to make this money.

Worse, there is no solution is site. Who is going to arrest these crooked cops? Other cops? They're on the take as well.

>He recently retired, at age 52, and now will draw a $70,000/year pension for the next few decades

Illinois has a pension crisis we can't get out of because of this. These union handouts and insane pensions that are 100% unaffordable. Right now every man, woman, and child in Illinois owes $26,000 in taxes to pay these pensions out. Who is going to pay this stuff?

[cylinder]

Citizens should be able to pursue small qui tam suits against other citizens for things like welfare fraud. It's worked very well for Medicare fraud, I'd like to see it implemented on a micro scale.

[malandrew]

Do you think the process of pursuing small qui tam suits is automatable enough to make easy enough for Joe Q. Citizen?

[prostoalex]

> Worse, there is no solution is site. Who is going to arrest these crooked cops? Other cops?

The fraud burden typically lies with the agency that's cutting the checks. Other agencies (IRS, SEC) deal with fraud in their specific areas and do not rely on police except the very specific step of arresting the individual, which in these cases may never happen.