Since 2010, nearly two-thirds of the people killed or wounded by gunfire in Chicago have been victimized in the census tracts that have suffered the heaviest losses of Black population over the past two decades. Collectively, the rates of homicide and nonfatal shooting victims in those areas are more than five times higher than they are for the remainder of Chicago.
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.