Mark Konkol: "The reimagining of a citywide violence reduction squad with a gentle touch would give police brass a much-needed unit of highly trained officers to more effectively respond when shootings spike. Better than, say flooding the streets with 1,200 extra cops, which didn't work July 4th holiday weekend when 100 people got shot, 15 fatally."
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.