A central Illinois lawmaker recently pondered the discrepancy in Illinois Governor JB Pritzker's venue to sign into law the recent police reform bill.

State Sen. Chapin Rose says Gov. Pritzker signing into law the police reform bill - which Sen. Rose says celebrates criminals - at the failing institution of Chicago State University is the celebration of mediocrity while making the state less safe.

According to the Mahomet Republican, if Illinois is headed towards more crime and less education then "we're in deep trouble." He believes the public has been sold a bag of goods to believe mediocrity is excellence.

Sen. Rose points to the common core curriculum as the dumbing down of our educational standards and then on top of that, there are millions of kids in the country not going to school at all right now.

Rose discussed the crime bill after offering support for school resource officers in the school setting after the SROs were threatened to be banned from schools in the police reform bill.