Posted on 10/04/2022 6:18:05 AM PDT by Salman
Cook County’s chief judge and sheriff are asking a county judge to toss a lawsuit that seeks to hold them responsible for the murder of 73-year-old Keith Cooper, whom prosecutors say was killed by two men who were on electronic monitoring in Chicago.
Attorneys for Cooper’s estate based the claim on the same general grounds as a similar suit filed weeks earlier on behalf of another murder victim’s estate: Cook County is putting potentially violent people on home confinement without adequately monitoring them.
Attorneys representing Chief Judge Timothy Evans and Sheriff Tom Dart argued that the officials don’t have a duty to prevent people from committing crimes while on electronic monitoring, the Cook County Record reported.
In a statement to CWBChicago after the lawsuit was filed, the sheriff’s office denied that the two men accused of killing Cooper were on its electronic monitoring program. Instead, they were on an “EM” program operated by Evans’ office.
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“ Attorneys representing Chief Judge Timothy Evans and Sheriff Tom Dart argued that the officials don’t have a duty to prevent people from committing crimes while on electronic monitoring.”
They have a duty to their pensions and that’s about it.
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The sheriff doesn’t determine who get let out on electronic monitoring.
The judge, on the other hand...
They should be held responsible and personally and publicly accountable.
The Sheriff does however administer the EM program
Lawyers for the estates of Cooper and Shanate Guy, the victim in the first lawsuit, claim Cook County, Dart, and Evans put over 3,500 people onto EM programs but only staffed 110 people to monitor an average of 850 violations per day.
Electronic Monitoring was invented to save money spent on prisons by allowing non-violent, low risk prisoners waiting trial to stay home.
The program doesn’t work so well on violent, high risk prisoners especially if the program isn’t well enough funded to make sure that the prisoners are monitored 24/7.
Of course the whole monitoring program will only work if the prisoner has the expectation that if they violate the set confines of their monitoring program that the police are going to come and take them to jail.
But Cook county Sheriff’s Department is suffering a sever man power shortage.
So, the prisoner violating his boundaries really is not expecting to get chased down anytime soon.
It is a good question that needs some resolution.
What is police-sherif responsibility and that of the Judges?
If there is no responsibility, then what is the point of monitoring devices?
Of course they’re not responsible. Law-abiding gun owners a thousand miles away are responsible, which is why we need to ban assault weapons and close the gun show loophole every time a convicted murderer in the lawless hellhole of Chicago who is out on monitoring or parole quite predictably kills yet another person. In fact, enacting a complete firearms prohibition is exactly why they were let out.
(Am I being sarcastic, or merely observant?)
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