By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) As expected, Gov. Bruce Rauner in his state budget address, vowed to send more Illinois State Police to Chicago to help quell the street violence.
Rauner says there is additional funding in the proposed state budget to train then hire state police troopers.
“Our budget prioritizes public safety and proposes funding for two Illinois State Police cadet classes, adding new troopers to our law enforcement ranks,” Rauner said Wednesday. “Those officers will allow us to send more patrols to the Chicago area, to the expressways, to counter the violence that has spilled over onto the highways there.”
The Sun-Times first reported that Rauner was seeking to train and hire 200 additional state police.
Read Governor Rauner’s 2017 Budget Address. here.
As far as the rest of his budget address, Rauner says he likes what he sees in the Senate’s “Grand Bargin,” but says there must be some changes made including to workers compensation, freezing property taxes and implementing term limits for state lawmakers.
After the address, Democrats criticized Rauner’s third budget speech saying there is no real numbers and Rauner is putting his political agenda ahead of resolving the budget impasse.
@ 2017 WLS-AM News
