"We’ve trained about 400 outreach workers, over 100 police officers, close to 50 case managers across the city in 40-plus neighborhoods," said Vaughn Bryant, executive director of Metropolitan Peace Initiatives. "The outreach work has been around longer here than in New York and L.A., but they invested long term and significantly. Here, the city, county, and state are now funding the work by community outreach groups in significant numbers, but because we were late to innovate and push that, it’s going to take us some time."
What a name for these folks– “Peacemakers”. Some bureaucrat who obviously didn’t study his history book must be unaware that the Peacemaker is an 1870’s era Colt single action pistol, named for its use in eliminating bad guys all over the Wild West. And I can’t wait to see what metric the City will use to determine the success of this program. They obviously can’t use any traditional test like crime statistics, number of murders, shootings, rapes, etc. The new metric will have to be something like ‘ how many times did the perpetrator smile at the peacemaker’. Or ‘Did… Read more »
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.
What a name for these folks– “Peacemakers”. Some bureaucrat who obviously didn’t study his history book must be unaware that the Peacemaker is an 1870’s era Colt single action pistol, named for its use in eliminating bad guys all over the Wild West. And I can’t wait to see what metric the City will use to determine the success of this program. They obviously can’t use any traditional test like crime statistics, number of murders, shootings, rapes, etc. The new metric will have to be something like ‘ how many times did the perpetrator smile at the peacemaker’. Or ‘Did… Read more »