"Violent crime on the CTA spiked during the pandemic, and still hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels. Even as transit ridership began to recover from 2023 to 2024, rates of violent crime per million trips actually increased."
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.
Didn’t get the memo? If Homie says crime is down, then crime is down and to prove otherwise makes you a racist.