“If the question is why do this now, it is because we haven’t done this already,” said Deputy Inspector General for Public Safety Deborah Witzburg, whose position was created as part of the package of reforms spurred by the outrage generated by the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014 by former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke.
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.