According to the department, dedicated detectives are now investigating cases that would once be spread among two or three police districts. “It’s important that we now have detectives assigned to public transportation,” said Commander Joe Bird, who heads the public transportation section. “They pick up the pattern a lot faster than we did before.”
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.