Bipartisan push underway to enhance penalties for harming Illinois social workers – Center Square

Criminal penalty enhancements at the statehouse have been taboo with majority Democrats focused on criminal justice reforms. For years, Republicans had attempted to get enhanced penalties for those attacking social workers. Such a measure from Republicans passed the House during a previous General Assembly, but never advanced out of the Senate.
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Goodgulf Greyteeth
4 years ago

“Under the proposed legislation, DCFS employees would be granted the same protections as police” Well, in “woke” Illinois, I’m not sure what that will amount to – It’s hard not to get cynical about this sort of thing. A state employee is murdered by someone who likely has a lengthy prior arrest record that in most cases never resulted in either charges being filed, or a sentence that included incarceration. Democrats reverse course, and rush to protect public employee union members from a failed criminal justice system that also put’s Joe-n-Jane Sixpack at daily risk of being victimized by thousands… Read more »

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