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While officials said Johnson has not proposed to cut any positions charged with implementing the consent decree, city officials did not answer detailed questions about why 60 fewer officers would be assigned to constitutional policing and reform efforts in 2026 than in 2025. The amount of money set aside for constitutional policing and reform efforts will drop by $80 million between 2025 and 2026, records show.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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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.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Millions of dollars wasted on hurt feelings. Hundreds of positions placed in desk jobs instead of being out there doing the cop job. All of these consent degrees are useless, wasteful. Waste tons of cash for years, produce huge volumes of paper reports, file cabinets full of stats and graphs. Huge salaries to law firms and connected individuals for results that end up with nothing but stacks of paper, filled filing cabinets and word salad reports.