“There's no question that we have seen a surge of crimes ever since the SAFE-T Act was put into place,” state Sen. Steve McClure, a former state prosecutor, said. “The first reason is because it caused a lot of people to leave law enforcement, and we lost a lot of good officers. The second reason is because it emboldened criminals.”
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.