The suspects in the case weren’t identified until roughly four or five years later via an ATF tip on a gun running case, but by then the statute of limitations had run out. "It really angered me because, at that time in Illinois, you could write a bad check, a single bad check for forgery, and we could chase you for 30 years. But attempted murder of a police officer, they couldn't," former Riverside police chief Tom Weitzel said. He teamed up with Republican state Sen. Judy Baar Topinka, who successfully amended the law so that there was no statute of limitations for the shooting of an officer in the line of duty.
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.