A review of Chicago Police Department data on the district level shows that killings have actually increased or remained flat in many of the neighborhoods that have historically struggled the most with violence. That may be because the downturn in fatal and nonfatal shootings has coincided with a huge spike in armed robberies and carjackings across the city, and police have shuffled resources around to deal with it — sometimes at the expense of the most troubled areas.
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.