Retired Police Chief Tom Weitzel: "Illinois politicians have spent years insisting violent offenders can be safely managed in the community with ankle monitors. This case proves — in blood — that they are wrong. A career criminal who had already escaped monitoring was given chance after chance. Now a Chicago police officer is dead."
Until some prominent person or one of their close family members is killed by some violent repeat offender on electronic monitoring look for lots of hot air from politicians, but ZERO action.
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.
Until some prominent person or one of their close family members is killed by some violent repeat offender on electronic monitoring look for lots of hot air from politicians, but ZERO action.