“We’ve got to have programs, but we can’t forget the law-enforcement side,” Champaign County Sheriff Dustin Heuerman said. If programs are offered at the right time, they might work, “but once somebody picks up that gun and they’re willing to shoot at somebody else, my opinion is those programs are pretty much done and public safety takes precedence.”
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.