Police and prosecutors are adopting AI tools that write reports from body camera video and hunt for leads in case files. Jake Laperruque of the Center for Democracy & Technology explains why we have heard these promises before.
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Chicago’s recent responses to several of our FOIA requests, across a wide range of city
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On March 27, 2026, the Chicago Police Department released the “Report on the Workforce Allocation
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