Illinois will be the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail as of Sept. 18, and the former police chief of Riverside, Illinois, says 'chaos' will likely break out.
state to eliminate cash bail in September, following months of legal action from opponents of the law who say it will leave residents and law enforcement officers less safe.
"In this terrible year, in the middle of a brutal viral pandemic that hurt Black people and Brown people disproportionately, lawmakers fought to address the pandemic of systemic racism in the wake of national protests," Pritzker said in a press release back in 2021.
"And then there were advocates that just didn't think you should be held in custody with a bond because your case had not been adjudicated yet, that you have not been found guilty," he added. Weitzel said that bail was established to"ensure you're going to be in court in the future," and that local leaders and activists"kind of hijacked that and made the public think that ‘Oh, you know, we shouldn't hold people in custody at all if they haven't been found guilty or pled guilty.’"
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