Claiming “this is what Chicago wants,” the letter launches into a list of eight demands and the group’s reasoning for each. Topping the list: Reject a property tax increase. That was followed by a demand that the city reconnect its ShotSpotter gunfire detection network, and create a new police district on the Southwest Side and a satellite office for the existing 12th District to “better handle rising crime in the area.”
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
They’ll support anything he tells them to once they get paid.