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Illinois last year enacted a Bail Reform Law intended to make bail affordable for poor people. Kim Geiger of the Chicago Tribune explained at the time of passage:
…the new law creates new rights for people in custody at Illinois jails and aims to move away from requiring people charged with relatively minor crimes to post cash bail as a condition of their release.
The legislation reflects a general consensus among criminal justice advocates, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, and Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx that the state’s cash bail system is unfair to poor people.
Under the previous law, many nonviolent, low-level offenders were spending weeks or months in jail because they couldn’t come up with the 10 percent down payment that’s required in order to be released. In 2015, for example, more than 1,000 inmates in the Cook County Jail had served more time in custody than they were ultimately sentenced to serve, according to Dart’s office.
Fair enough, though certainly subject to abuse, as the following case, highlighted by CBS 2 in Chicago demonstrates:
Why did a judge let an alleged rapist out on bond for $400 cash? That’s the question CBS 2 Investigator Brad Edwards asked the man accused of that very crime.
How did Burnell Johnson get a $400 cash bond? The CBS 2 Investigators asked him after a recent court appearance.
The crime of which Burnell Johnson is far from “relatively minor.” The details are horrifying.
“What could POSSIBLY go wrong?”
Hey. It’s Chicawgo.
…they HAD to let him out early so he could start voting Democrat for the 2020 elections. He’s got THOUSANDS of votes to submit from all over Illinois, so he’s just too BUSY to spend time in that stupid ol’ jail for stuff that Dem leadership does ANYWAY…
That “judge” is clinically brain dead.
Election of judges is just one of many reasons not to let felons vote.
Sorry for the woman but if you
live in the democrat hells called
“cities”, this is what can happen.
The Nazis in Germany used uncontrolled crime as a way to get the people to beg for a police state. Their government made them unsafe, then promised them safety in exchange for their freedom. See how that works?
That’s true ^ But Chicago is different. The non-criminal Chicago citizens just end up leaving and the criminals don’t like cops anyway.