Despite the support of law enforcement groups, State Rep. Jim Durkin, the House Minority Leader, did not support the trailer legislation. “It’s fundamentally unfair against law enforcement officers,” Durkin said of the original bill. “I just can’t support a very weak trailer bill to a terrible bill.”
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.