Ald. Anthony Napolitano, who served as a Chicago police officer for five years and a Chicago firefighter for 10 years, has put forward a resolution calling on three different City Council committees to hold a public hearing to consider providing a path for officers suffering from PTSD to access "stellate ganglion block" and ketamine treatments. Because the treatments are new and not yet backed by the Food and Drug Administration, Chicago police officers currently have to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket for the treatment.
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.