In all, the city set aside $667 million to implement the consent decree between 2020 and 2024, according to Chicago’s annual budget overviews. CPD has fully met just 9 percent of the court order’s requirements during that five-year period, according to the most recent report by the team monitoring the city’s compliance with the consent decree released Tuesday.
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.