The City of McHenry, IL and their $150,000 DUI Budget

Recently, for no reason apparent to anyone in the community, the City of McHenry, IL has decided that they want to spent $150,000 on DUI trials and hearing in McHenry County Illinois.  They let go the old prosecutor to whom they paid about $27,000 a year, and hired a new one for about $90,000 a year.

The City of McHenry also has declared that there will be no deals in DUI cases.  So I would propose this:   Let’s help the City of McHenry spend that budget and take all of their cases to trial.  That way we will help them achieve their goals.

I guess I forgot to mention that DUI arrests are down sharply, probably due to loss of federal money for DUI enforcement among other things.  The City of McHenry has picked a very curious time to decide to ramp up their DUI spending.