Prosecutors charged Bertell Johnson, 23, with four counts of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, possession of a machine gun, and three drug-related felonies for suspected cocaine, cannabis, and oxycodone the sheriff’s team allegedly recovered. “This is the 2nd case the [defendant] picked up while on [pretrial release],” Judge Kelly McCarthy wrote as she ordered Johnson detained to await trial.
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.