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Outcry as thousands of prisoners are set to be RELEASED from jail when Illinois becomes first state to introduce no cash bail in January: State attorneys desperately sue Gov Pritzker amid fears already spiraling crime will soar
UK Daily Mail ^ | 10/06/2022 | Melissa Koenig

Posted on 10/06/2022 2:48:00 PM PDT by DFG

Thousands of prisoners are set to be released across Illinois as it becomes the first state to completely do away with cash bail under a new law that goes into effect in January.

The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act (SAFE-T Act) completely abolishes the cash bail system, which critics say disproportionately impacts black and brown communities and other underrepresented or impoverished groups.

Under the law, anyone who is arrested may be released back on to the streets based on the assumption of innocence guarantee under the United States Constitution, though criminals accused of certain crimes — like forcible felonies, stalking and domestic abuse — will be exempt from pretrial release.

It was first proposed by the Illinois Black Caucus in response to the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, and was signed into law by Gov JB Pritzker on February 22, 2021.

As a result, Illinois became the first state to completely abolish cash bail, though other states, like New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, Kentucky and California have created reforms to their bail laws over the past few years.

But ever since it was signed into law, Illinois law enforcement officials have warned that the SAFE-T Act will embolden criminals and make it harder to keep offenders off the streets, as crime rates are already spiraling out of control in Chicago.

Critics have compared it to The Purge, a movie in which the U.S. decriminalizes all crime for 24-hours.

And in just one county, officials report that 400 prisoners there will be released once the law goes into effect.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; bail; crime; dystopia; illinois; pritzker; safet
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To: DFG
The state attorneys should LOUDLY make it known they will NOT charge any person for any crime allegedly committed against a Pritzger family member, or any family member of elected individuals OR jurists at any level of government.

Live (or not) with the conditions you have created.

21 posted on 10/06/2022 3:13:40 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Hodar

00-buck works well.


22 posted on 10/06/2022 3:14:11 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: I want the USA back

“It’s a free for all now. Criminals can do anything they want now. Democrats are allowing them to kill, rape, steal and destroy. “

By design. It is another fork of The Great Culling.


23 posted on 10/06/2022 3:18:58 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

These criminals must be intended to be Obama’s and Soros’ army to get rid of the silent majority.


24 posted on 10/06/2022 3:26:30 PM PDT by Aria
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To: nickcarraway
Why would anyone who is charged with a serious crime and has significant evidence against them not flee?

That's exactly the Democrats' intention. "Encourage" them to leave the jurisdiction and become other people's problems.

They don't have to worry about bail bondsmen returning the dreck if there's no cash bail reward.

Red states will end up transporting felons back to their Blue state cities just like they're transporting illegal aliens.

25 posted on 10/06/2022 3:28:35 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: hanamizu

Lack of education, lazy, and more likely to commit crimes.


26 posted on 10/06/2022 3:33:20 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Hodar

1911, my weapon of choice. I totally agree, If using a .45; two rounds Center mass should be all the convincing that is required. However if still breathing 1 to the head closes the case.


27 posted on 10/06/2022 3:35:38 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Aria

“These criminals must be intended to be Obama’s and Soros’ army to get rid of the silent majority.”

It is bigger than that, it is global. They are just using them as helpful tools right now, but they will eventually be on the hit list too. Everything is geared to reduce global population. Laws and the justice system, environmental policy, energy policy, health policy, economic policy, foreign policy, Etc.


28 posted on 10/06/2022 3:37:32 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: I want the USA back

So back to lynch mobs again?


29 posted on 10/06/2022 3:41:25 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: DFG

Let’s see what happens....


30 posted on 10/06/2022 3:44:05 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: DFG

This will be the greatest Illinois republican campaign ad ever. Sure glad I’m not in Chicago.


31 posted on 10/06/2022 3:46:10 PM PDT by enduserindy
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To: TheDon

“So back to lynch mobs again?”

Those are illegal... We are just supposed to get on our knees and be helpless victims.


32 posted on 10/06/2022 4:01:34 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: DFG

Some of these guys are there because they couldn’t leave the
ex alone. A woman who has a guy put in prison for breaking
a restraining order, is a woman who can live in peace.

Good luck now.

Good luck to those these criminals have tortured up to now,
and want to get even with.


33 posted on 10/06/2022 4:03:05 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: moovova

LOL.
Nah, it’s Chicongo now.


34 posted on 10/06/2022 4:11:08 PM PDT by Veto! (FJBsucksrocks)
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To: DFG

Fat Boy is a Soros disciple, it would seem.


35 posted on 10/06/2022 4:22:27 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: TonyinLA

Well, some of us didn’t vote for it, but we have to live with it anyway. Just a few counties in Illinois are what made this state blue, and probably will keep it that way.

It’s STILL better than California.
Stew in that…


36 posted on 10/06/2022 4:36:57 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Hodar

Great advice.👍


37 posted on 10/06/2022 4:39:52 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Hodar
I also send the best Hollow points I can find; why be cheap when it matters most?

I like it.

To paraphrase the Hallmark Card slogan:

When you care enough to shoot the very best.

If the perps had any class they would appreciate it.

38 posted on 10/06/2022 4:40:42 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Openurmind

For illegals they let the cities decide to not obey the laws on the books.

So if we want to have the purity of genuine justice rather than accept the shoddy and totally ineffective “system of justice” we can then choose that, right?

“Jury will not be allowed to view and hear the confession. Inadmissable.” “No reference can be made to the five times the defendant was charged with this crime in the past.” “His juvenile convictions and time served before age 18 is expunged and the jury cannot be told anything about them.”
“The defendant began talking before being Mirandized and his words cannot be entered into the record for the jurors to read.” “Defendant is sentenced today to previous time served.” “Prosecution will make a list of names and addresses of the witnesses and present these to the defense attorneys.” “The chain of evidence was contaminated when a clerk misfiled dna samples and all the evidence is now inadmissable.”


39 posted on 10/06/2022 4:51:05 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

The only things I have going for me, living in Illinois, are my concealed carry and situational awareness.
I can’t count on the law to help me. God forbid I should ever have to unholster my weapon to defend myself or my family, but I reconciled myself to that possibility long ago.


40 posted on 10/06/2022 4:51:43 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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