{"id":1722837,"date":"2022-11-03T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T10:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722837"},"modified":"2022-11-03T09:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T13:03:51","slug":"coming-bail-reform-law-has-illinois-prosecutors-in-a-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coming-bail-reform-law-has-illinois-prosecutors-in-a-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Bail Reform Law Has Illinois Prosecutors in a Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcoming-bail-reform-law-has-illinois-prosecutors-in-a-panic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722837&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/5125297a-1c08-49c2-9715-d3baabb01dd1-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In January of last year, the Illinois legislature passed a hilariously (or tragically) misnamed bill called the Safety, Accountability, Fairness, and Equity-Today Act, also known as the SAFE-T Act. The bill was passed in response to the 2020 BLM riots and was touted as a way to implement \u201credistributive justice\u201d and \u201cpolice accountability.\u201d Among other things, it completely eliminates cash bail in Illinois, ensuring that anyone who is arrested for virtually anything will immediately be put back out on the streets. It was endorsed and signed into law by Governor J.B. Pritzker the following month. The law is scheduled to go into effect on January first and prosecutors and district attorneys of both parties from around the state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/illinois-prosecutors-predict-real-tragedy-if-unprecedented-bail-reform-law-takes-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are now going into panic mode<\/a> because they\u2019ve seen this scenario play out in other states and they know what\u2019s coming. (National Review)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Illinois prosecutors on both sides of the aisle are sounding the alarm as the clock ticks down to January 1, 2023, the day the state\u2019s criminal-justice system will be turned upside down by a new law that rewrites the rule book around how suspected criminals are treated as they await trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first thing about this bill I would say is it\u2019s unprecedented,\u201d Thomas Haine, the Republican state\u2019s attorney (SA) of Madison County, Ill., told\u00a0<span class=\"small_caps\">National Review<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as I can tell, it is the first complete elimination of cash bail,\u201d he continued. \u201cFrom my mind, it\u2019s the story of the century. You have a complete revolution in the cash-bail set-up in Illinois that was passed without any understanding of what it contained.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The SAFE-T Act was one of those bills that were literally rushed through in the dark of night. The mammoth bill weighed in at 800 pages. It was brought to the floor of the legislature at four o\u2019clock in the morning and passed an hour later. Clearly, virtually nobody had read the entire thing and many legislators were likely unaware of the complete removal of cash bail that they were about to impose on the state.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that this is Illinois we\u2019re talking about here. In case anyone has forgotten, that\u2019s where Chicago is. And the Windy City is currently experiencing one of the worst crime waves in living memory. That\u2019s all happening <em>before<\/em> cash bail will be eliminated. What will things be like in Chicago after this goes into effect?<\/p>\n<p>For whatever reason, Pritzker is still <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/governor\/2022\/illinois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">very comfortably ahead<\/a> of his Republican opponent in the polls. With that in mind, he probably isn\u2019t terribly worried about the even larger flood of crime that is about to crash down upon his state hurting his political future. (At least for now.) And if that\u2019s what the voters of Illinois want to do, then they probably deserve everything they have coming to them.<\/p>\n<p>But the Governor might want to keep an eye on what\u2019s happening in New York right now. The Empire State also did away with most cash bail after the Summer of Love (though not as drastically as what\u2019s coming in Illinois). And now, Governor Kathy Hochul is in actual danger of losing her office to a back-bench Republican in a state where she should have easily won her race by 25 points without even bothering to go out on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>Crime is one of the top issues on the minds of voters across most of the country as we head into the midterms. Violent crime rates, along with massive property crime are up in big cities everywhere and people have long since begun to notice and respond. Bail reform laws are being viewed like the skunk at the garden party. And in the midst of all of this activity, Illinois is preparing to turn the \u201credistributive justice\u201d knob up to eleven. Let\u2019s put on some popcorn and see how that works out, shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January of last year, the Illinois legislature passed a hilariously (or tragically) misnamed bill called the Safety, Accountability, Fairness, and Equity-Today Act, also known as the SAFE-T Act. 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