By: Matt Rosenberg
Illinois state legislators meet this week in Springfield in the fall veto session to consider changes to the 764-page criminal justice reform bill they approved in early 2021. That measure – called the SAFE-T Act – ends cash bail January 1. It also sharply limits pretrial detention for new weapons defendants and probationable forcible felony defendants. And it allows defendants released to electronic monitoring (EM) two weekly furloughs plus 48-hours free roaming if they violate terms of confinement under monitoring. Meanwhile monitored defendants continue to go off the rails in Cook County and Chicago, where a local version of bail reform has been in place since late 2017.
The SAFE-T Act has so many deep flaws – foremost among them the end of cash bail – that it should be rescinded entirely but after the recent election in which majority Democrat sponsors strengthened their supermajorities in Springfield, that’s not happening. Meaty corrections are the next least toxic approach.
To ensure the same problems do not now spread to the rest of Illinois, lawmakers should walk back their statewide SAFE-T Act “reforms” on electronic monitoring, and make it easier to detain high-risk defendants judges deem too risky to the community at large or to crime witnesses and victims.
Twice-weekly furloughs from electronic monitoring being widely abused, to sheriff’s chagrin
Weekly furloughs for pretrial defendants on electronic monitoring began at the start of this year under the SAFE-T Act. But WGN-TV reports that since then some pretrial defendants on their twice-weekly, eight-hour breaks from electronic monitoring – supposedly for legitimate purposes like prayer, counseling, or shopping – were instead found to have made “repeated visits to a casino, shop at a gun store, commit retail thefts, and attempt a kidnapping.” The Office of Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart also says four more EM defendants have been murdered while out free on the so-called “essential movement” days mandated by the legislature under SAFE-T.
Dart said to WGN, “Our city is overwhelmed with violence and we’ve taken a group of people who are charged with violent offenses and saying ‘go out, we’re going to shut our eyes for two days just to see what happens.’”
Now thanks to the SAFE-T Act’s strict barriers to pretrial detention even for weapons defendants and forcible probationable felony defendants, counties across Illinois will see more and more high-risk individuals released before trial. Often they will be released onto electronic monitoring. But Cook County’s continuing experience shows that is more and more a license for further mayhem.
The EM horror show keeps on playing
Bringing it all to life is the crime news site CWB Chicago which continues to report about pretrial defendants on electronic monitoring who’ve been charged with new crimes.
Here are just a few more recent instances of electronic monitoring gone wrong in Cook County, reported by CWB. It’s a partial preview of what’s in store for counties across Illinois once cash bail is abolished and pretrial detention is largely off the table.
- A man already convicted four times for felonies was out on electronic monitoring and driving, after arrest for a Class X gun felony. He saw an off-duty police officer in a car with his children and pointed a gun with a laser sight attachment at the cop. He is now charged with a new count of Class X armed habitual criminal.
- After charges tied to fleeing and eluding police, crashing into five vehicles, and narcotics possession, a Chicago man was placed on electronic monitoring and then later before leaving for a court hearing allegedly killed his girlfriend in front of her three-year-old child.
- A care facility worker on electronic monitoring for a weapons charge tied to an earlier shooting was tending to a developmentally disabled woman and was then charged with twice sexually assaulting her.
- A man charged in connection with alleged home invasions for felony burglary and impersonating a federal officer was on electronic monitoring but disarmed his ankle bracelet and fled home confinement before putting a woman at a bus stop in a chokehold. He reportedly shouted threats at sheriff’s police of “I will break her f****** neck!!” He was charged with aggravated battery by strangulation, unlawful restraint, and criminal damage to government property.
- A man was released to electronic monitoring after narcotics and Class X Armed Habitual Criminal charges when police found in his vehicle after a traffic stop 83 bags of heroin, 36 bags of crack cocaine, and a loaded handgun. But then on a home compliance check of this EM defendant, CWB reported that sheriff’s investigators found “two pounds of cocaine worth $929,700, $5,680 worth of heroin, 21 boxes of sleep aid, a synthetic opioid called carfentanil, and other narcotics materials” plus “a bag of so-called ‘Grey Death,’ a mixture of carfentanil, heroin, and other opioids that is more than 100 times more powerful than deadly fentanyl.”
It would be nice to at least be able to say these EM breakdowns are something new in Cook County. But they’re not. All this comes on top of a series of prior electronic monitoring snafus and a broad expansion by local courts of high-risk violent criminals in the Cook County EM population. Cook County at the behest of its courts and “bail reform” has pioneered broad-scale electronic monitoring and it’s in shambles. Now all of Illinois is on the same road thanks to lawmakers who enacted the SAFE-T Act.
Many more pretrial offenses by undetained defendants remain unreported, for two reasons
While the officially-reported percentage of EM defendants charged with new crimes before trial is a small subset of Cook County’s total on monitoring, the real extent of criminal activity by EM defendants or those out before on bail is wildly underestimated for two reasons.
First, only 4 of 10 non-murder violent victimizations and only one-third of property victimizations are reported to police nationally, on average. Second, the major crimes arrest rate in Chicago is just 6 percent.
Because of those limitations, many more of those crimes than currently known are likely to be perpetrated by suspects out on bail or on electronic monitoring before trial. They simply aren’t caught. If you hear assurances that just a small proportion of out-on-bail or EM defendants commit new crimes before trial, reach for your wallet. Because with more than 9 of 10 crimes resulting in no arrest, we have no idea.
Given what we do and don’t know, it makes little sense for Illinois state lawmakers to retain the two-day furlough for pretrial defendants on electronic monitoring, nor to keep the 48-hour free roaming pass for EM scofflaws.
As the final innings approach, majority lawmakers have held fast to defining myths around the Act. Senate co-sponsor of the Act and Chicago Democrat Robert Peters reiterated that bail reform was urgent because low income defendants can’t afford to buy their release when cash bail is imposed. Except they can. Within another day, or days, or weeks, almost all of the relatively few defendants actually held on cash bail are able to pay it and go free before trial, as Professor John Paul Wright of the University of Cincinnati reported in a Manhattan Institute issue brief last week.
Failure to reform SAFE-T’s “reforms” spells trouble for at-risk communities and lawmakers
By retaining key provisions of the SAFE-T Act – from weakened electronic monitoring to abolition of cash bail to effective curtailment of pretrial detention without bail – lawmakers will further victimize black constituents.
They also risk being torpedoed in court. As Wirepoints recently reported:
“In considering all they need to do, lawmakers should bear in mind the pending consolidated lawsuit against them to rescind the Act, by 58 Illinois county State’s Attorneys. One main thrust of the lawsuit is that cash bail is guaranteed by the Illinois State Constitution, Article 1, “Bill of Rights.” It holds in Section 9 that ‘all persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties.’ Article 1 (Section 8.1) in the…Constitution also…states victims must be ‘reasonably protected from the accused throughout the criminal justice process’ and must have their safety ‘considered in denying or fixing the amount of bail, determining whether to release the defendant, and setting conditions of release after arrest and conviction.’”
When the tide finally turns, look back to this moment
The SAFE-T Act crashes head-on into the state constitution and is based on disproven claims of pretrial defendants widely languishing in jail for want of cash bail. It is an affront to public safety, the legislative process, and our communities. It is also an affront to police who now under the Act are subject to anonymous state decertification complaints and local misconduct complaints without sworn affidavits. A police hiring crisis in Illinois has already resulted from the increasingly hostile work environment for cops since SAFE-T’s passage in January 2021.
No Republicans voted for SAFE-T in the Illinois House or Senate. Democrats are the party of SAFE-T. They triumphed in Illinois’ November elections. But not with support of an actual majority. Only about half of Illinois registered voters cast ballots this year. Many more who were eligible to register didn’t. It takes a lot to draw non-participants back into the political process. However, a dramatic worsening of material conditions can do that whether it’s related to surging crime, failing schools, skyrocketing taxes, or all three. Political tides do turn. And if that happens in Illinois we will look back to this moment in time – and the SAFE-T Act – and know part of the reason why.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Chicago’s growing carjacking problem – Reel
- Poor communities bear the brunt of crime unleashed by Cook County bail reform and the SAFE-T Act: New Manhattan Institute report
- Chicago’s progressive agenda has been destructive for black communities
- 50 years of failure: Norman Lear’s ‘Good Times’ first criticized Chicago’s policy of automatically passing students in 1974. It’s still happening today.
- Chicago Transit Authority violent crime aims for five-year high in 2022; Red Line stuck in “Wild West”
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
I think the judicial rationale for enjoining the SAFET act might just have enough merit to hold up on further review. Unfortunately the left took control of the Illinois Supreme Court this past election and barely anyone noticed.
Every judicial race is now a priority.
It was 4-3 Dems before the election and 5-2 now. Same majority. Nothing changed.
I wonder what it would take for Chicagoans to vote Republicans into office to run their city? Seriously. is there ANYTHING that could happen that would cause them to abandon the Democrats? If they built gas chambers and started exterminating law-abiding citizens of Chicago would they continue to vote for them? I think they would. And if so, the answer must be that they are beyond stupid.
I hope the residents of Illinios will wake up and understand that THEIR safety and that of their family is in jeopardy. People will be taking the law into their own hands soon.
More Officers will be leaving next year for other states or just leaving the profession. This act only benefits criminals.
So what is really new here? The Democrat Party is the party of criminals, and this just adds to the overwhelming evidence of my claim.
The bottom line is that, for whatever reasons, the leftist legislators in this State actively seek to put the population at a much greater risk of violent crimes by repeat offenders. They also seem to be encouraging new people to become criminals. Our democrat legislators and state level officeholders are intentionally putting all of us in danger, and they don’t care whether the citizens like it or not.
It’s called Equity. The world you as you see it, they believe is inequitable. They are remaking your world to become more Equitable, whether you like it or not. They are obsessed with equity. It’s an ideological religion and it’s got much of the country under its grip. It’s time will too soon pass, but not before much damage is done.
I wonder how long will it will take for the legislature what a disaster this is. How many of will have to be touched by crime before they realize what the average citizen feels. .
This legislation feels like part of a larger and malevolent design by puppet masters behind the scenes.
Another Act where we really won’t know what’s in it until after it’s the law of the land… welcome to the wild side….
Many voters in the last election took the Faustian bargain, casting their votes based on a single issue. In trade, they will get higher crime, higher taxes, and less educational opportunity for kids as a start. The fear pushed by Democrats to coerce the choice worked to the detriment of working-class Illinois people.
Ever wondered why this bill was never put on a ballot for voters to voice their opinion?? Look no further then all the comments here and else where. Democrats purposely passed this in the dead of night because they knew it wouldn’t get passed with the original content. Now that it has been exposed Pritzker “promises” to revisit it and tweak it with his pals. I’ll be one of so many that will say this…..bullshit! It was a clusterf*@$ from the start. The one I’ll be a waiting for is those who trespass on private property and then get shot,… Read more »
I cannot believe what I am reading! How is this possible?? What is the reasoning for the so called SAFETY ACT! What an Oxymoron!
A gift to the black caucus from the white Democrats
Yes, it’s worked so well in Cook County, let’s spread it statewide!! Unfortunately, the rest of the state is dominated by the Cook voters- who have maintained the insanity for decades.
Another great spying our new law: skipping your court date, after getting EM, the “ failure to appear “ warrant will NOT be issued, until the poor soul comes in to explain why they missed court!!!!!
Unless a Democratic leader or legislator experiences harm or danger as a result of this dangerous policy, they will continue to advocate for criminals, under the guise of social justice reforms, not the victims.
Agree- On a local level if people want a stop sign at a dangerous intersection usually nothing happens until some politician/city council members kids get in a terrible accident then a stop sign is put up the next day.
Rich Democrats are hiring their own private personal security on the taxpayer’s dime
The results of the Nov.8 election have demonstrated that this is what the people want….and they shall get it. The alarm bell has been sounded but it has fallen on deaf ears. I guess the residents of this state have still not reached their breaking point of mismanagement and mayhem. Rev. Corey Brooks has stated that this law will hurt the people it was designed to help. The Black Caucus wants no changes. All of us will pay for what about is to be unleashed upon the law-abiding citizens. Buckle up.
The fact that 100 of 102 county SAs are against this debacle is enough for me.
This is a terrible mistake for the State Of Illinois
Yes, the Democratic Party owns the SAFW T Act and the upcoming body count. However, why wasn’t House Minority Leader Jim Durkin (R-82, (but really Illinois Combine)) hollering from the rafters about this bill. Why wasn’t he on the news every single day? Instead, Durkin remained silent just like all the Illinois Combine state reps. As “Minority Leader”, there isn’t leadership in the Illinois Republican Party, just politicians looking out for themselves. In order to protect himself in his next election, Durkin stepped down as Minority Leader. Durkin took care of Durkin, but shirked his duties to look after crime… Read more »
The Dems owned the 1970’s and 1990’s body counts. The Dems owned the 1968 and 2020 riots. Has anything changed? heck no because you’re stuck in their world.
Could be because fake news won’t give them a platform. Fake news is only for liberal communists.
Having family and friends in law enforcement this bill is reckless. The safety of citizens will be compromised. The current status of recidivism is at an all time high. This law burdens law enforcement officers particularly in Chicago. The low man power and high volumes of calls for officers in Chicago will continue to rise. It creates a safety issue for officers. Burnt out from cancelled days off and the lack of help will slam officers to the brink of more mss retirements. The low moral will most likely escalate suicides among officers. The stress will be too much to… Read more »
As a victim of a armed robbery years ago I can say without a doubt I’m 100% against this bill. It comes down to the victims have little to no rights.
You have constitutional rights. Its right there, in the constitution. The Black Caucus purposely ignored that piece of paper, like every communist treats the constitution like a piece of paper, and took away your rights. Hopefully a Kankakee County court on December 15, 2022 will recognize the unconstitutionality of the law and correct this debacle.
Here is a question for all the Illinois Democrats who voted in favor of the Safe-T Act. When Covid hit, you all couldn’t scream loud enough about “believing the experts and the science”. When a minority amount of Doctors touted evidence showing alternative therapeutic medicine, you all invalidated them, called them conspiracy theorists and discounted their opinions as a bunch of fringe witch doctors. “Listen to the overwhelming majority of Doctors on what to do for Covid!!” We had 100 of the 102 Illinois States Attorneys, with Kim Foxx and the virtue signaling A55 kisser in Lake Country as the… Read more »
Always follow the money. First, if criminals are let out of jail, the city/county doesnt have to foot the bill. Once convicted, the convict is sent to a state facility. Second, think of all the new contracts that are going to bid with exponentially growing EM. As a rule, most politicians only care about their constituents enough to get reelected.
I love Chicago. I think it’s the most beautiful city I’ve seen. I love its’ diversity. And I cannot live there any more.
SAFE-T Act. Orwell speak. Nothing safe about it!
One need only to look at this past weekends mayhem in Chicago for evidence that the system to protect criminals at the expense of victims has made Chicago unsafe. Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s claim that Chicago is the “safest big city in America” is hogwash, and the people who watch the news every night surely do not guy it. Nobody wants to move to Chicago, and many are leaving…crime and taxes…that is the legacy of Illinois’ and Chicago’s politicians. At some point one has to ask if their actions are not literally aiding and abetting the crimes, mayhem and murder that… Read more »
My initial comment goes to the most obvious, but seemingly the least talked about. This whole Electronic Monitoring (EM) system…..What is it REALLY? Sounds to me to be a cousin to the Red Light Camera System. What a great “fund-raising” mechanism (not that any of these government contract suppliers would be in the fund-raising business, of course!) However – “someone” is supplying the end-user (read: bad-guy) equipment, and it appears to be fairly complex and reasonably expensive. There must also be an amazing array of equipment, personnel, office space, command structure, etc. for the people doing the monitoring. Do we… Read more »
Thanks to Matt for this much needed analysis of the current problems we are facing on this critical issue. It is a travesty that the daily newspapers are not covering this issue more closely. Please keep up the coverage as the SAFE-T act unfolds in the new year.
They won’t give it much coverage because it was organized, promoted, passed and signed by the politicians they endorsed! They’re not going to go back and bite their own butt!
We have grown accustomed to collapse of public pension plans and of public schools. Public safety is now on its way out. Will this trifecta inspire those voters not on the public dole to vote their fiscal and physical interests?
Some of us cheer the possiblity of pension and school collapse as a catalyst for bankruptcy or other reform. Should we now cheer the carjackers and gangs to complete the destruction? Burn it all down and start over?
They gotta keep the blacks on the plantation, the black leaders demanded this leniency in the law and they know just how to twist the vise on white libs. Because they claim law enforcement has been unfairly tilted against them. So, the libs solution is to simply stop enforcing the law, great. But ironically it will turn around and hurt the black communities the most when those thugs go home shooting, drug dealing, raping and stealing. I really don’t care, I live in an average blue-collar suburb that is safe. Additionally, my wife and I have vowed never again to… Read more »
Thank you for your good work, Matt.
This is a disaster for the people of Illinois! Call your legislators and make your feelings known!
If, by chance, your legislator is a Republican, there will be NOTHING they can do to help you. The ONLY thing they can do is commiserate with you. If your legislator is a Democrat, he/she does not take suggestions, ideas or marching orders from their constituency. The Black Caucus is running the legislature, and Chris Welch was heard to say on more than one occasion that there will be NO meaningful changes to the Act. We lost our chance for input when we scorned the ballot box.
It has been bad the last couple years, the strong crime uptick in formerly decent neighborhoods. After the New Year, it gets compounded. Areas like Norwood Park, Jefferson Park, Edison Park, Sauganash on the North Side will not be spared. And forget the inner ‘hoods. They may turn to chaos.
And don’t forget that these criminals are mobile. They will venture to the collar suburbs plenty. Bottom line–there will just be more of them, and they’ll be looking for wealth & easy pickings. Be careful on those red hot runs, Mattski…
Criminals from certain ethnic neighborhoods have realized that committing crimes in their neighborhood is not profit friendly so they have figured out to go where the money is. Fancy homes, fancy cars and unaware snowflakes are easy pickings.
Gov. Pritzker has bowed down to the WOKE Insanity with the SAFE-T Act. This was created in a back room with limited attendance, it was later voted on at 2am. Yet the media declares JB this and SAFE-T the winner on election night after the polls close. Since the media appears to be the water carriers for the JB Administration, I wonder if the negative effects of the SAFE-T Act will be reported accurately, if reported at all.
Crime will be reported, in journalism, if it bleeds, it leads. But like we saw in the 1970’s and the 1990’s, crime waves last for a decade or more. The SAFE-T Act won’t be a cause of our crime wave but it a definitive factor to make thing worse. The problem is that any criticism of the SAFE-T Act is called racist. (“We can smell it. It’s a bad stench of racism coming from that side of the aisle,” Rep. Slaughter-D said while pointing at Republicans on the house floor). There is Zero political will within the Democrat party to… Read more »
Very true!
Pritzker is woke insanity.
Once again I must carefully scrape my jaw off the floor after reading how insane, stupid and careless “lawbreakers” in Springfield are. It’s a ritual the so called “normal” citizens of Illinois have to go through all the time. Yet it is “we” who are called “extremists” because we simply believe in law and order. We are indeed living in Jerry Seinfeld’s “Bizarro World”. Up is down…wrong is right…Triple Threat is actually running campaign adds proclaiming how safe Chicago is. The EM failures and no cash bail are no brainers for sane people to find idiotic and dangerous. But Matt’s… Read more »
The threshold for office holders is so low in this state that we are governed by thieves, crooks and scoundrels. I tell myself I’m through helping people I admire gather petitions, knocking on doors, helping craft messaging on social media and yet here I am. I’m at a total loss. If democrats are not going to be held accountable for a horrific bill, then what’s the point?
Portland. That’s what we will be with this dangerous legislation.
It would be easy to say you get what you vote for. Not all got what they voted for. That in itself is discouraging. I recall having a conversation with a friend shortly after the midterms and sayin why do we bother? Why vote? Our voice is not heard. I have tried to understand this crazy thing called the safe t act, I’ve talked about it to others. No one understands this. Why we ask are criminals due more? I’m of the age where I now am retired. It should be a time of freedom from the daily grind. It’s… Read more »
Right! 90% of the state is conservative and has nothing in common with the idiots in Cook/County/Chicago and the several collar counties who control everything. Sadly, those elected Democrats from those areas do not give a damn about anyone else in the state. Guns bad, well every neighbor of mine has several. Gas vehicles bad, most of my neighbors have pickup trucks. Hate police, my neighbors have blue outdoor lights and signs with Back the Badge on them. Love JB, there are dozens of signs by me “Pritzger Sucks”. The difference is huge. I prefer my surroundings.
SMH in disbelief! “The idea was to see if immoral thinking caused the volunteers to subject themselves to more pain, and if this pain did indeed alleviate their resulting feelings of guilt. And that’s exactly what the researchers found.” Association for Psychological Science 1/26/11
“It’s always darkest ….. before it goes totally black.” The trajectory of Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois isn’t trending in a manner that would suggest or could be observed in a positive manner. In Matt Rosenberg’s few final sentences, ” ….. surging crime, failing schools, skyrocketing taxes …..”, the traditional journalism questions of who, what, where, when, and how go unanswered. Who would want to live in a society that allows this, what are its root causes, it’s everywhere, it’s here and now, and how do we fix this? In each of those queries, looking at the elected leadership, the… Read more »
The Illinois Legislature did nothing in their first 3 days of the Veto Session, other than collect their $155.00 per diem, so I would not hold my breath that any meaningful changes to the UNSafe-T-Act will occur this week.
The liberal mindset is one of a total contradiction regarding violence. On one hand they clamor for gun control and the elimination of gun rights. They pass laws making it difficult to own a gun legally. On the other hand, the liberals make it easy to commit gun crime with little consequence. Gun violence is given a pass. Criminals are free to repeat their crimes almost at will. When will this hypocrisy end?
When everyone in Illinois is dead or everyone has left Illinois. I find it amazing that residents have trouble making the choice?
I have to admire the brave residents of Illinois. They are willing to put their families at risk rather than leave the state.
Sarcasm perhaps, but has nothing to do with bravery, I would call it ignorance. Am personally on my way soon to the Sunshine State.
You get what you vote for, common sense is once again lost here. This will add to the crime problem, another massive failure for Illinois and seems sadly by design.
What I find difficult to understand is why the Democrats would want the cities, large and small, to suffer the kind of increased criminality which will probably occur in the aftermath of this new law. It cannot be simply that they care about poor people charged with crimes who are unable to make bail. As Matt shows in this and other articles, the vast majority of those charged with a crime are able to make bail within a reasonable period of time. Could it be that the Democrat majority simply doesn’t care that criminality rises? Or that the economy is… Read more »
Preston, I too find it difficult to understand how they think. I spend lots of time trying to understand, reading their stuff and talking to them whenever I can. I just don’t get it, but your assessment here seems pretty good.
It’s not complicated. They tell you exactly what they are thinking. I’ve repeated it here many times. The E in SAFE-T stands for Equity. In the context of the SAFE-T Act, Equity means incarcerating fewer Black people in our systemically racist criminal justice system. “The cash bail practice stands at the intersections of racism, classism and sexism,” said Senator Robert Peters (D-Chicago), who has long advocated for reform to the bail system. “It is a tiered system of safety where if you are poor, but especially if you are Black and poor, and even more so if you are Black,… Read more »
Our legislators, and specifically the Black Caucus, believe that poor Blacks are incarcerated at disproportionate rates than other races because our criminal justice system is systemically racist. They are dismantling the system through all the of the SAFE-T Act reforms, the most controversial of which is the elimination of cash bail. The elimination of cash bail exists to reduce the number of Black and minority inmates held in jail before trial. Proponents of the bill use the fancy liturgical language of the progressive religion to describe their beliefs, but at the end of the day, they’re just really saying “We… Read more »
Spot on Debtsor. The issue is not that there are too many GBOC in jail but the exact opposite; there are too few.
Locking people up works. It is extremely effective. It stops criminals from committing more crimes and it disincentivizes future criminals. It’s a crude tool becuase it creates all sorts of other hardships for the people close to the incarcerated individual. The reality is that most criminals are just normal people who go about their day doing normal people things until they commit a criminal act. So that person is a father, a brother, a son, an employee, a friend, a caretaker, baby daddy, or whatever, until they decide to commit some brief criminal act, like possessing drugs, or stealing a… Read more »
I think its an overriding sense of guilt and “we know what is best for you” mentality. Democrats are long gone and what has replaced them are these guilt ridden (crying about indigenous peoples, POC, cultural appropriation, and on and on) milquetoast Socialists. They have been indoctrinated into thinking that the Venezuelan model is the way to achieve this. Many of them have no knowledge of history nor do they care. Ultimately they love to tell us how to live but don’t live this way themselves. They believe in wealth distribution (just not their own wealth) and are happy to… Read more »
Speak to any LEO and they will tell you the criminals are chomping at the bit for SAFE-T act to go in to full effect. The people will fight back and it won’t be pretty. God protect the good people of Illinois.
Cashless bail is a danger to the community under the misnamed “Safe-T Act.” I pray that the political tides turn quickly. Too many voters did not show up to the polls.
***—local misconduct complaints without sworn affidavits.—***
Many police departments are about to get inundated with a flood of “anonymous complaints”…
I suspect some from within their own organization in order to “crash the system”…
In any event, just who will be investigating these allegations…?
Even Chicago’s COPA will be quickly overwhelmed…
I wonder how quickly bad things will start happening, and how long it will take for us to find out about them when they do.
Excellent article. I hold the longtime (lifer) politicians responsible as they typically fail to read the laws that they vote on (can they read?). And of course the voters who continue to vote those people in. Most of them are tied to Unions, and therefore the Unions are responsible for this unbelievably crappy situation in our State of Illinois. I think your articles should target specific people. In the past you have mentioned Tim Evans and Kim Foxx, but what about the less well known like the guy who lives over by dare…….
Well I am just shocked. SHOCKED I tell you, that these citizens aren’t simply praying or shopping when they get to take off their electronic monitors.
I want to feel sorry for Illinois, but ultimately this is the fault of the voters.
Virtue signaling & wishful / hopeful thinking just leads to more chaos & violence…