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Okay, everyone.

Debate surrounding electronic monitoring reform and the Safety Act is reigniting in the wake of the murder of a CTA janitor last week.

The suspect, who was accused of stabbing Julianne Mobley to death at the Damon Green Line station, reportedly was on electronic monitoring at the time of the attack.

Today, Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill-Burke weighed in, telling an audience at the City Club of Chicago, Illinois needs a permanent legislative solution to solve the, quote, failures of the electronic monitoring system.

According to Burke's office, Shavaz Campbell, who faces one count of first-degree murder, had been on electronic monitoring after a retail theft conviction.

Before that, he spent three years in jail for a stabbing.

Burke also says Campbell broke curfew rules several times, so she's unsure why law enforcement, quote, ignored his violations, especially with his violent track record.

Electronic monitoring is not monitoring at all right now.

Well, I count this as CTA crime.

You had the, um, CTA janitor on the Damen Green Line station, um, you know, the, the guy who killed him, two felony cases wearing electronic monitoring bracelets as a condition of felony probation when he allegedly fatally stabbed the CTA worker.

Julian Mobley, father, he was married 20 years, father of two children, youngest just 18 months old, and he is the second CTA employee to be killed on the job this year.

And his body was found in a closet, ugh, and, uh, which is disgusting.

And the monster who killed him, in 2018, Jeanne, slashed a teenager's throat, but he was still out on electronic monitoring.

I, I don't know.

You slash somebody's throat and you're out in less than seven years? Less than...

... a CTA janitor, janitor.

It's been over a year since the first time, and at that time, we spoke about the bail system and how it applied to illegal immigrants who were released by the Biden administration.

But now we have a different fish to fry, don't we? That's bail reform and electronic monitoring for violent offenders.

What do people need to know about it?

I think the, probably the, the, the biggest thing people need to know is that electronic monitoring is a supplement.

It sh- it is not a replacement.

Uh, because first of all, it's very expensive.

So it has a lot of false positive notifications that kinda desensitize the court.

And then I think we have examples where defendants learn that if they wait till 5:30 on Friday, they get a three-day head start on running.