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.
Do we not suppose that the students, faculty and administrators at such a high-minded place would be happy to become personally involved (as volunteers) in protection of their sacred safe spaces? Let’s say four hours per week somewhere on the perimeter in lieu of beer pong or bull sessions? Similarly the neighboring residents in their ever-so-fashionable virtue signaling homes? And wouldn’t the Obama’s and Bill Ayers think such efforts were sufficiently worthwhile to lend their support, time and treasure to this urban Peace Corps initiative?
Go for it UofC you have some great minds there, you can develop AI software to analyze the video feeds from a hundred cameras in seconds. Any black young men that didn’t come up id’ed as students using facial recognition could set off an alarm for your now re-funded police to go stop and frisk. It really is an easy AI program to write considering you’d just basically be looking for black skin, easy. Well over 95% of the violent crime fits that pattern. Your new cameras would prove out concretely with data what profile of individual is causing your… Read more »
Once Dementia Joe forgives the student debt of the little liberals attending UChicago, we’ll be the ones paying for those cameras.
You reap what you sow.
Live with it. Go woke go broke.
Aren’t these cameras racist for who they are capturing images of?
Kind of like how the Trib won’t publish a mug shot, because, well, you know……
The Trib doesn’t publish anything without Lori’s approval. Unless it conforms to the agenda, nothing meaningful gets published. The Trib of the past was a quality conservative publication. The Tribune press room at 435 was the largest press room in the world. They moved to Chicago and Halsted, that will be demolished for a casino; fine job!
Hyde Park liberals shouldn’t get any cameras — it’s their soft on crime crapola that has led to Chicago being a smoking crime crater.