But the department has plans for the higher-than-average number of people who have had to stay at home. A spokesman said, “We have a layered Emergency Operations plan that centers around maintaining critical staffing levels. Even with the increase in sick leave, it is lower than what it was this weekend and we have not yet had to implement any significant changes to maintain neighborhood patrols."
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.