In the run-up to the Nov. 8th mid-term election, some Republican politicians across the country and in Illinois spent a lot of time talking about crime and attacking transgender youth.
Both of those messages fell flat here and across the country, and I pray that this leads to a newconversation from now on.
Crime is up post-pandemic; that’s true. But some blamed this rise on the modest efforts that some have made to reform our racist, ineffective, and punitive criminal justice system.
In Illinois, this meant attacking the Pretrial Fairness Act, which ends cash-bail and allows detention before conviction only when the arrested person is a specific threat.
Around the country, reform-minded prosecutors were attacked as “weak on crime.” Ads were run saying that Democrats wanted to “defund the police” even though bills like the SAFE-T Act here in Illinois increased funding for training and equipment.
Voters rejected these arguments. They re-elected reform-minded prosecutors across the country. Democrats easily won in Illinois, including here in the Rockford area.
Democrats who will gather for a veto session in the next weeks can confidently make small, needed clarifications to the SAFE-T Act and not panic about public backlash or pull away from this important work.
The public knows that our system isn’t working and they want it fixed.
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