Retired Police Chief Tom Weitzel: "No resident wants their local police officer spending vast amounts of time out of the village they are patrolling to manage prisoner transport and bond hearings. It costs additional money, the liability is extreme, and the possibility of officers getting injured on prisoner transport is high."
While there are some great deputy sheriffs in the Cook County Sheriff’s Office you have to realize it is a highly political office that does not want to take on any responsibility. Responsibility means liability to Tom Dart. Take a look at how long it took for him to deal with prisoners/inmates who were exposing themselves(and more) to attorney’s coming in to meet their clients. As a Sheriff’s Department they are really a failure at providing the basic services that virtually every other Sheriff’s Office in the state does.
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.
While there are some great deputy sheriffs in the Cook County Sheriff’s Office you have to realize it is a highly political office that does not want to take on any responsibility. Responsibility means liability to Tom Dart. Take a look at how long it took for him to deal with prisoners/inmates who were exposing themselves(and more) to attorney’s coming in to meet their clients. As a Sheriff’s Department they are really a failure at providing the basic services that virtually every other Sheriff’s Office in the state does.