The Springfield officers, who are part of the Mobile Field Force team locally that specializes in crowd control, will likely be working along the Inaugural parade route, said Lieutenant Joe Phillips. The Springfield team joins around 4,000 officers traveling to the nation's capital from across the U.S.
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.