Following Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s call to send Illinois Republican candidate Darren Bailey “back to the farm,” the Republican nominee fired back, calling on the Democrat mayor to get off her “elitist high horse” and “remember who puts food on your plate.”
A convicted felon in Chicago, who was on bail, is being accused by prosecutors of armed robbery and shooting a man, CWB Chicago reported.
70% of arrestees who were released under a new “zero cash bail” policy in Yolo County, California, west of Sacramento, were rearrested, according to a study conducted by the local district attorney’s office and published by the Sacramento Bee.
A Democrat state’s attorney slammed legislation that will end cash bail in Illinois, claiming it will let hundreds of alleged criminals roam free.
A homeless man in Brooklyn arrested three times in 36 hours boasted to police he would avoid being held on bail because he “didn’t have a record,” the New York Post reported Sunday.
Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm, a Democrat, was once championed by progressives as a leader on “criminal justice reform” before a court commissioner released the suspect now accused of killing five Americans and injuring 48 others during a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
In Biden’s America, murders have risen 16 percent in big cities — and to the chagrin of Democrats, U.S. voters are noticing.
Half of arrestees released in San Francisco while awaiting trial went on to commit crimes — while one out of six committed violent crimes, according to a new four-year study by the California Policy Lab of UC Berkeley and UCLA.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Pretrial Fairness Act (HB3653) making the Land of Lincoln the first state to eliminate cash bail.
DCCC senior adviser Dyjuan Tatro has frequently supported defunding America’s law enforcement, called police racist, espoused anti-capitalist views, called to end cash bail, and urged officials to let criminals out of prison.
Rev. Raphel Warnock, the Democrat nominee running against GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler in Georgia, compared the use of “cash bail” in the criminal justice system to “voter suppression.”
A bail fund that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) promoted on Twitter to assist protesters arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, riots earlier this year has freed a man accused of sexually molesting a child, the Daily Caller News Foundation reports.
Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said Tuesday that she would not be able to enforce Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home orders because she was too busy re-arresting accused criminals set free under the state’s new “zero-dollar bail” policy.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said that “hundreds of thousands” of people are in jail “convicted of nothing” and that he plans to end cash bail policy.
California Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to abolish the bail bond business this week is just the first step in a multi-level decriminalization initiativeCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to abolish the bail bond business this week is just the first step in a multi-level criminal justice reform initiative.
