The village board voted 4-3 in August 2021 the remove the previous patch over its "thin blue line" imagery. During several board meetings and hours of public comment, along with protests and counter-protests outside village hall, critics of the patch said the imagery had been co-opted by extremist groups and its use was intimidating to people of color.
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.
Public uproar? A minority of leftists were the uproar.
Mount Prospect Police deserve respect and support — not virtue signaling hatred for law enforcement.