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2022-11-02 -Great Cultural Revolution

SAFE-T Act: Illinois sheriff warns prosecutors not to be ‘overzealous' targeting victims stopping criminals

[FoxNews] Citizens could be driven to use lawful force to stop criminals, Illinois sheriff says

Illinois Police and state's attorneys shouldn't be "overzealous" when prosecuting victims who use force to defend themselves after the state's criminal justice reform law goes into effect, a sheriff told Fox News.

"I think you will see instances where civilians take matters into their own hands and use hopefully what's an appropriate level of force to get the people to stop committing the crime that they're doing," Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Bullard said.

Illinois' Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act will make significant changes to the state's criminal justice reform system. Provisions include ending cash bail; limiting how judges determine whether defendants are flight risks; and allows defendants under electronic monitoring to leave home for 48 hours before they can be charged with escape.

"A vast majority of Southern and Central Illinois, and even Northwest Illinois counties have been completely opposed to this," Bullard said. "It really only had Cook County in mind."

All but one of the 102 state attorneys oppose the law as it stands, and more than half of those prosecutors have filed lawsuits since Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the legislation into law last year.

Bullard added that if Cook County wanted this reform in their county, "then by all means go ahead."

"But the rest of us don't want it," he said. "We got plenty of bed space for people who want to act like knuckleheads at two in the morning."

Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-02 05:51|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Can you say, "vigilante"?

Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-02 07:48|| 2022-11-02 07:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Lib county and governor implementing stupidity on a statewide basis. I don’t think they will overturn the government in Illinois but I don’t think they will.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-11-02 08:58|| 2022-11-02 08:58|| Front Page Top

#3 appropriate level of force to get the people to stop committing the crime that they're doing

"So why'd you shoot him thrice in the ass, Mullins?"

"Well, seein' as he was runnin' on being caught stealin'."

"But you shot him a second time!"

"Yessir, I did. He was cursin' all sorts a nasty. As I re-membered it bein' an obscenity crime. All disorderly like."

"Sigh... But the third time?!"

"Oh I was just tryin' to stop 'im from pollutin' the noise, sir. He was caterwaulin' like somethin' crazy. Interferin' with everbody's enjoyment of life and business."

Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-02 09:56|| 2022-11-02 09:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Ill. has always been two tiered. Mob town aka Chicago, and everywhere else.

Posted by AlanC 2022-11-02 12:56|| 2022-11-02 12:56|| Front Page Top

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