Under Illinois’ new Reimagine Public Safety Act, $50 million in state funds will be split between 10 cities, excluding Chicago, and will go toward community-based efforts to address addiction, mental illness, youth trauma and other underlying causes of firearm violence. Selection was based on per-capita firearm violence from 2016-2020.
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.