Editorial: Running risks with public safety a sorry way to go – Champaign News-Gazette

Do soft-on-crime laws encourage criminal wrongdoing? Or does this kinder, gentler approach help society’s miscreants see the errors of their ways and embrace a more law-abiding approach to life. It depends, of course, on the criminal and the crime. But the example of Cook County resident Jordan Henry is illuminating.

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