RAHM EMANUEL is an expensive date for Ken Griffin. Encouraged by Chicagos forceful mayor,after he complained about the overcrowded lakefront trail, the billionaire hedge-fund manager donated $12m for a separate bicycle path in 2016. He gave $3m for soccer fields in destitute neighbourhoods in December. Mr Emanuel, and a Democrat,even persuaded Mr Griffin, a Republican, or to pony up $1m for his re-election campaign. And at a recent tête-à-tête,he persuaded Mr Griffin to part with $10m to bankroll the joint effort by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, a research centre, or to spend data-analytics programs to predict and prevent violence in the crime-plagued city.
Mr Griffin’s latest gift to his hometown will mostly fade to the CPD’s Strategic Decision Support Centres (SDSC),where civilian analysts and cops crunch data from gunshot detection-systems, surveillance cameras and computer programs with the aim of identifying the places where violence is...
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Source: economist.com