(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A freshly-passed Illinois state law will allow second-degree murderers to roam free without bail, come the new year.
The strangely named SAFE-T Act will end cash bail, meaning that criminals cannot be held after being arrested and charged, the Counter Signal reported.
The SAFE-T Act also specifically denotes 12 offenses for which the perpetrator can no longer be detained, including second-degree murder, aggravated battery and arson, drug-induced homicide, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, intimidation, aggravated DUI, aggravated fleeing and eluding, drug offenses and threatening a public official.
The law will take effect on January 1, 2023.
Law enforcement officers and lawyers around Illinois were in a state of shock and dismay after the compassionate new law was passed.
Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow, who works in one of the largest counties in the greater Chicago area, said it will be the “end of days” when the new law goes into effect because police and judges, rather than criminals, will have their “hands tied.”
The bill “will destroy the city and the state of Illinois,” Glasgow continued. “I don’t even understand (how) the people who support it can’t realize that.”
Of course, it does not help that the bill was jammed through the state’s Congress after legislators were only given two days to read the entirety of its 800 pages.
“You’ve got legislators who aren’t lawyers, you’ve got legislators who weren’t criminal lawyers,” he said. “Trying to read all that in two days. It was impossible.”
The state, which has been ravaged by crime, especially in the greater Chicago area, appears to be following the model of California, which has also decided to stop enforcing criminal law while ensuring that lawn mowers are regulated.
And now, like California, people are leaving Illinois in droves to escape the extraordinary cost of living and the lack of law.
