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.
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Live (or not) with the conditions you have created.
00-buck works well.
“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.
These criminals must be intended to be Obama’s and Soros’ army to get rid of the silent majority.
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.
Lack of education, lazy, and more likely to commit crimes.
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.
“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.
So back to lynch mobs again?
Let’s see what happens....
This will be the greatest Illinois republican campaign ad ever. Sure glad I’m not in Chicago.
“So back to lynch mobs again?”
Those are illegal... We are just supposed to get on our knees and be helpless victims.
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.
LOL.
Nah, it’s Chicongo now.
Fat Boy is a Soros disciple, it would seem.
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…
Great advice.👍
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.
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.”
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.
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