"'The tapes, they’re so powerful, and you have the track record of the U.S. attorney’s office rarely losing a case,' said Patrick Collins, the former assistant U.S. attorney. 'And the tapes are golden pieces of evidence. There is no better evidence than when the person himself is saying the words, as opposed to a flipper who’s got baggage.'"
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.