Parties Behind Bill to End Cash Bail in Illinois Say it Can be Model For Other States – WTTW (Chicago)

State Sen. Robert Peters, who sponsored the bill, said, "We cannot cede who’s allowed to define public safety for us. For too long, we’ve allowed law enforcement to tell us what it means to have a safe community, even though many of them don’t live in our community to begin with. So I think the first part about trying to pass transformative pieces of legislation like this is that organizations, legislators and folks who are working on policy understand it is on us to find the safety that we need in our community.”