Deputy Mayor John O’Malley told members of the Chicago City Council’s Public Safety Committee that Lightfoot’s plan had been narrowed in response to criticism from members of the Chicago City Council, civil rights groups and police reform advocates.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a “landmark” criminal justice and police reforms bill into law earlier this year, bringing an end to cash bail in Illinois and.
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This might’ve worked in the 1980s against East Coast mob bosses and South Florida drug dealers, but there’s good reason to believe it will be useless here.
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