Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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.
Didn’t Brandon Johnson say that he wanted to end the use of ShotSpotters?
The Department is woefully understaffed. Which is why if there are no reports of some one being shot, or reports of damage, shotspotter calls fall to the bottom of the list and wait until some one can respond. That is why the Dispatcher was just reading off pending jobs because their rules say they have only so many minutes to announce the job, while it may take hours for police to respond, especially on a warm spring/summer/fall night. I think that’s what’s missing in the reporting of this tragedy
I also took note of the neighbor who claimed that bad things happening in her neighborhood hadn’t been common, but who also said that she heard the loud gunshots and just returned to sleep until the squad cars showed up.
Gunfire, I guess, isn’t one of the ‘bad’ things…
Gunfire, sirens, screams…
Just part of the background noise in the big blue cities…
Quite sad actually…
When “seconds” count…
The police are “minutes” away…
Many minutes…
Will never show
No wonder why Ken Griffin and tens of thousands of others have left the Chitty.
It has been getting worse every day and at an increasing rate.
It’s shocking.