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90_HR0527
LRB9012283RCks
1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, Social forces and organized gang activity which
3 fall into categories which are correlated with increasing
4 criminal activity are found, unfortunately, in all of
5 Illinois' 102 counties; and
6 WHEREAS, The percentage of total Illinois crime,
7 including violent crime, which takes place in rural areas and
8 counties is increasing as a percentage of total Illinois
9 crime; and
10 WHEREAS, In contrast to these unfortunate social trends,
11 the Illinois State Police has allocated an increasing share
12 of its total resources to important but costly crime-fighting
13 efforts in Illinois' urban areas; and
14 WHEREAS, These new urban Illinois State Police duties
15 include traffic patrolling on the superhighways of Chicago
16 and East St. Louis, operation of the new city of Chicago
17 police crime lab, and operation of the new Joliet-based
18 Automated Fingerprint Identification System; and
19 WHEREAS, In response to recent events in the town of
20 Cicero, the Illinois State Police has announced that it will
21 take on routine police duties for six months in that Cook
22 County municipality; and
23 WHEREAS, Although these are all important and necessary
24 functions of the State in keeping the peace for the people of
25 Illinois, they all work together to reduce the effort and
26 time which the Illinois State Police can allocate to
27 crime-fighting in downstate and rural areas of Illinois,
28 despite that fact the high-unemployment and comparatively
29 impoverished areas of rural Illinois depend on help from the
30 Illinois State Police to keep order in their townships,
31 communities, and counties; therefore be it
-2- LRB9012283RCks
1 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
2 NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
3 call upon the Illinois State Police to continue to provide
4 adequate help to Illinois rural areas in facing the
5 challenges of increased criminal gang activity, increased use
6 in downstate counties of methamphetamine and other controlled
7 substances, and the overall convergence in the rate of
8 property crime and violent crime between Illinois' urban
9 areas and rural areas; and be it further
10 RESOLVED, That we call upon the Illinois State Police to
11 commit itself to a long-term planning exercise, involving
12 consultation with a wide variety of community leaders and
13 professional peace officers from all areas of the State, to
14 determine the best long-term allocation of the State Police's
15 geographical resources for the benefit of all Illinoisans;
16 and be it further
17 RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be presented to
18 Illinois State Police Director Terrance W. Gainer.