And Larsen isn’t the only paroled killer the state can’t find. Other parolees the department considers absconders include Alfred Myles, 63, who was convicted of a killing in Chicago in 1986, and Shannon Smith, 26, who was on parole for robbery when, according to the police in Elgin, he fatally shot his sister outside a bar in 2018.
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.