U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, CPD officials and representatives of Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul listened for 90 minutes as more than a dozen Chicagoans testified virtually that the reform push that has cost Chicago taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars has not resulted in significant change. Almost seven years into the process, CPD has fully complied with 22 percent of the consent decree’s requirements.
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.