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Gun law ‘does nothing to prevent mass shootings, crime’
March 9, 2023
McHenry County approves resolution denouncing new state gun ban
February 22, 2023
New gun law just another reason for people, businesses to leave Illinois
February 18, 2023
AMENDMENT 1 COULD LET ILLINOIS POLICE UNIONS UNDO SAFE-T ACT MANDATES
November 23, 2022
Winnebago CO. Sheriff Gary Caruana on IL’s SAFE-T act
October 5 ,2022
WCSO Cash Bail Discussion
October 5 ,2022
Sheriffs quitting after police “reform” bill passes, effectively tying the hands of cops and protecting criminals
October 5 ,2022
A sheriff in Union County, Illinois has become at least the fourth sheriff in the state to turn in his badge after the state implemented something called the “Safe-T Act,” an anti-police group of measures dressed up with in the guise of “police reform.”
Pritzker considering SAFE-T Act changes
October 3 ,2022
Gov. JB Pritzker is considering changes to the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform to clarify provisions related to the end of cash bail in Illinois, while his Republican challenger, state Sen. Darren Bailey, continues to push for a full repeal.
EFFECT OF ILLINOIS’ SAFE-T ACT?
October 3, 2022
Come Jan. 1, pretrial cash bond will be abolished as part of the Illinois SAFE-T Act, a move that has triggered outcries, varying interpretations and lawsuits.
Rockford Black Lives Matter case over bond hearings heads to US Court of Appeals
ROCKFORD — A lawsuit filed on behalf of Black Lives Matter protesters who were held in the Winnebago County Jailed for three days without bond hearings is set to be heard next week before the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The protesters were arrested...
Millions in stolen goods recovered in Chicago
It took 15 people eight or nine hours to unload all the recovered merchandise in the first major bust for the Illinois attorney general's Organized Retail Crime Task Force. Law enforcement recovered millions of dollars worth of stolen goods from Chicago storage units...
Suburban lawmaker says there’s a ‘war on police.’ Will his proposals help?
State Rep. Marty Moylan, a Democrat from Des Plaines, says there's a "war on police officers" and is proposing two pieces of legislation, as well as a funding boost for law enforcement, he believes will help end it. According to data released by the FBI this fall,...
2 men charged with carjacking elderly couple at gunpoint in broad daylight at Willowbrook gas station
WILLOWBROOK, Ill. - Two men, who are in custody in Indiana on unrelated charges, have been charged with carjacking an elderly couple at gunpoint at a Willowbrook gas station. Kevin Sanders, 22, of West Lafayette, and Antonio Davis, 20, of Chicago, have been charged...
Police identify Waukesha Christmas parade suspect. Here’s what we know
What was supposed to be a joyous occasion in Waukesha, Wis., turned to tragedy Sunday afternoon when the driver of an SUV plowed into a crowd of people at the city's annual Christmas parade. Less than an hour into the festivities, suspect Darrell E. Brooks...
Child is 6th death in Waukesha parade crash; suspect charged
An 8-year-old boy became the sixth person to die Tuesday as a result of a man driving his SUV into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade, with a criminal complaint alleging that the suspect in the case steered side-to-side with the intent of striking marchers and...
Waukesha parade crash suspect appeared to have no emotion as officers tried to stop him, authorities say
Darrell Brooks (center) makes his initial court appearance in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. (CNN) Shortly before an SUV barreled into a crowd of parade marchers and pedestrians on Sunday in Waukesha, Wisconsin, at least one officer described the driver as having...
TROUBLING PAST Darrell Brooks fled domestic dispute before Waukesha parade horror and was on bail for ‘running over mom of his baby’
THE suspect in the Christmas parade rampage that left five dead had fled a domestic dispute moments before the horror crash and had been bailed just days before the frenzied attack, police said on Monday. Rapper Darrell Brooks, 39, who performs under the name MathBoi...
Waukesha Christmas parade attack suspect was out on ‘inappropriately low’ bond, DA admits
The man arrested over the deadly Christmas parade attack in Wisconsin should have been behind bars following an arrest earlier this month, but was released on an “inappropriately low” bond days before the attack, the district attorney admitted Monday. Darrell Brooks,...
Black Lives Matter activists threaten ‘riots’ if Mayor-elect Eric Adams reinstates controversial NYPD anti-crime units
Leaders of the city’s Black Lives Matter movement on Wednesday threatened “riots” and “bloodshed” in the streets if Mayor-elect Eric Adams reverses the abolition of the NYPD’s controversial anti-crime units. “If he thinks that they’re going to go back to the old ways...