In Illinois, state leaders are set to run full bore into woke so-called criminal justice “reform” as they work to implement the remaining portions of the Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today — aka SAFE-T — Act that include abolishing cash bail in the Land of Lincoln.
As the deadline for implementing such provisions draws near, public safety officials are ringing the alarm on the dangerous consequences of the law that was signed in 2021 by Governor JB Pritzker.
According to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, the SAFE-T Act “implements sweeping reform impacting many aspects of the criminal justice system, including pre-arrest diversion, policing, pretrial, sentencing, and corrections.” And while most of the Act’s provisions went into effect last summer, a few remaining pieces — including ending cash bail — will take effect on January 1, 2023.
The law would “restrict which crimes a person can be arrested for, and would free those in custody for 12 offenses, including second-degree murder, aggravated battery, and arson without bail, as well as drug-induced homicide, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, intimidation, aggravated DUI, aggravated fleeing and eluding, drug offenses and threatening a public official.” So, it’s a free for all in which people arrested for most crimes are released immediately, or after a few days at the latest.
Gov. Pritzker has heralded the legislation as proof his government is “leading the way in addressing the war on drugs as no state has before.”
But, according to many on the frontlines of sustain law and order and hold criminals to account for their crimes, Illinois’ never-before-seen law is not one worth celebrating.
An op-ed by Republican state Rep. Jim Durkin in The Chicago Tribune explained how, under the SAFE-T Act, “it’s possible drug kingpins, smugglers, traffickers or distributors of illegal drugs won’t be detained before trial, no matter the quantity of deadly substances they are accused of possessing.”
That is, the “reform” set to take effect in Illinois is not just about small-time offenders who are too poor to afford bail — those Gov. Pritzker and Illinois Democrats said their law would help. Nope, because equity, or whatever, the new law will benefit massively profitable and increasingly dangerous drug cartels and gangs.
Need REAL Jails in America like the Third World countries have incl Russia , China, North Korea for DETERRANT !
America Jails are just TIME !!! No Deterrant for the hard criminals !!! Enforce Death Penalty too !!
America is Best Place in the World to be a criminal !!! FACT
Enforce the FIRING SQUAD in ALL 50 states !!!!!!
Need a Prisoner EXCHANGE program with Russia , China, North Korea to be a DETERRANT !!!!
What about this could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Nothing !!!!! Great Idea
Arm yourselves, common Illinois folks, because police will be very slow to respond knowing that their intervention is a: most always after the crime occurs, and b: is now an exercise in futility when perps walk minutes after arrests.
Luckily there is no crime in Chicago so this shouldn’t be a problem.
Send them all to Laurie Lightweight.