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"These programs are a public safety disaster, but at least the Sheriff’s electronic monitoring program had law enforcement officers monitoring these individuals, who have the power of arrest when defendants break the rules. ... The Chief Judge’s staff can only request that an arrest warrant is issued, which will just go on top of the current pile of almost 32,000 criminal arrest warrants at the Sheriff’s Office."
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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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Summary and audio linked here.
Audio and summary
Appalling! Seems to me that lots of people, including the voters, have blood on their hands.
How many & who are either CC Sheriff or now CC Court employees that are responsible for “monitoring” EM program would seem an appropriate question? Or, could “monitoring” be performed by EM vendor?
What else would anyone expect from someone who said that now all areas of Chicago are experiencing what traditionally high crime neighborhoods experience? She doesn’t care about crime.