None of the alderpeople at the sparsely attended committee hearing pressed Deputy Chief Ralph Cruz or Executive Director Allyson Clark-Henson of CPD’s Office of Constitutional Policing and Reform on why CPD had fully complied with just 16 percent of the court order known as the consent decree by the end of 2024. In all, the city set aside at least $887.6 million to implement the consent decree between 2020 and 2025.
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.