Is Bail Re-Vamp Failing?

From the stonewalling coming from Sheriff Dart's and Chief Judge Evan's offices, it sure looks like a failure:

• A prominent Chicago watchdog group is going public with its two-year-long dispute over whether Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans and county Sheriff Tom Dart are sitting on data that's needed to evaluate how well the criminal justice system here is functioning—data it says is routinely available in other jurisdictions.
  
  ​ In an unusual report, the Civic Federation, which usually sticks to financial matters, says the stall means it's difficult to study questions such as whether a disproportionate share of those arrested under a new no-cash-bond system are quickly getting into trouble and are being rearrested.
  
  "Significant challenges to obtaining information have included lengthy delays and lack of responsiveness by public officials," says federation President Laurence Msall. "In 2017, no interested party should have to jump through such unreasonable hoops to obtain court and jail statistics."
  
  Dart is pushing back, with a spokeswoman saying he has fully cooperated with the federation, and any problems must be concentrated in Evans' office.

Awesome that Dart throws Evans right under the bus. That's a clue that something is up. The entire report is here at this link.

The Civic Federation is also looking at why the population at the jail is down something like 40% in the past few years, but expenditures by Dart are up astronomically. We'd say it has something to do with letting manpower dwindle while increasing six-figure middle managers (assistants to the assistant, etc) jumping up by dozens.