In addition to calling for $100 million in funding for police training, overtime, and retention incentives, the proposed Fund the Police Act wants to make the sentencing guidelines stricter and simpler for criminals convicted on felony gun charges; It would allow counties to opt out of ending cash bail if the county board adopts a resolution supporting it.
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.