The video in which Chicago officers could be seen relaxing and apparently sleeping in the campaign office of Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Chicago), with some officers apparently brewing coffee and making popcorn, quickly turned into a national news story that angered and embarrassed Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Police Superintendent David Brown and others. Brown asked incredulously during a press briefing at the time: “Sleep during a riot? What do you do on a regular shift when there’s no riots?”
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.