“Whatever is necessary. ... We should all be committed to doing just that,” Johnson said in response to the remark at a City Hall news conference. “Whether it’s in the courts, whether it’s in the streets or with policy, we’re going to continue to defend and stand up for working people.” This, even as he takes heat after the revelation that his own police department has routinely shared personal information of arrestees at the request of federal immigration officials, despite laws aimed at prohibiting such information-sharing.
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.