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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.
Sen. Tim Scott: Passage of First Step Act a victory for criminal justice reform
GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) - Republican senator Tim Scott is counting the recent passage of new legislation as a win for criminal justice reform. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate passed the First Step Act, a bipartisan effort aimed at curbing recidivism and, in...
JUSTICE Act Introduced in United States Senate
Addresses Police Reform, Accountability and Transparency WASHINGTON – This morning, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John Cornyn (R-TX), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), James Lankford...
Subway Worker Suspended After Defending Herself During Armed Robbery
A Subway worker bravely defended herself while getting robbed at gunpoint -- even successfully disarming the dude and getting him to leave ... and all she got was suspended. The woman's name is Araceli Sotelo, and she was working at a Rockford, IL Subway location last...
CPD Supt. Brown to speak after Chicago shootings this weekend leave 7 kids hurt, boy, 4, dead
CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's shaping up to be a violent holiday weekend in Chicago, especially for children. At least seven children have been injured, and a 4-year-old boy was killed in separate shootings across Chicago this weekend. Six kids were shot just in just 12 hours...
More Than 30,000 People Shot In Chicago In 10 Years. Here’s What Survivors Say Is Needed.
This story is a collaboration between WBEZ’s Reset and The Trace, a nonprofit journalism outlet devoted to covering gun violence in the U.S. More than 30,000 Chicagoans have been shot in the last decade. And five of every six survive. But while much of the attention...
Chicago Outpacing 2020 Shooting, Homicide Totals Through End of August
Chicago continues to outpace last year’s shooting and homicide totals through the first eight months of the year, following one of the deadliest months of August in the last two decades, according to police data. Monthly crime figures released Wednesday by the Chicago...
Father killed while shielding young daughter from gunfire on West Side, family says. ‘She’s devastated that she watched her father get killed.’
Travell Miller was killed shielding his daughter from gunfire Wednesday on the West Side, family says. He had moved to the neighborhood five days earlier. Travell Miller’s last act before dying in an ambush on the West Side was shielding his 7-year-old daughter from...
We have serious objections to various components of HB 3653.
We have serious objections to various components of HB 3653. The following is summary of those objections:QUALIFIED IMMUNITY (Page 12). One of the single, most important problemswith HB 3653 is the establishment of a task force to “reform” qualified immunity as it is...
New polling shows Democrats alarmed about crime, too
By listening to activists more than their own party’s voters, Democrats have been complacent in dealing with rising violence in American cities.
32 Unsolved Crimes in Illinois
All cases, names, and descriptions are provided by the Illinois State Police website.