“If we want to reduce crime, we have to solve crimes, and we have to make the investments in communities to avert the underlying causes of criminal activity,” Gov. JB Pritzker said.
On the heels of a surge in expressway shootings last year, Illinois State Police and Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday announced charges against 20 people in the past several months.
Police also said an unnamed person already in prison on unrelated charges is a suspect in a fatal expressway shooting on Dec. 13, and police are working with prosecutors to secure involuntary manslaughter charges. “Drivers have had bullets come through their windshields, maiming or killing someone who’s just trying to get from Point A to Point B. It can be anyone; an innocent child in the back seat, your friend you’re driving home. These are crimes that are often spilling over from criminal activity or gang disputes that began in Chicago neighborhoods, and the best way to stop them once they enter our highways is to bring the power of the troopers and the technology of the ISP to bear,” Pritzker said.
Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly said the department is “aggressively focused on making our expressways safer.”
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