SAFE-T Act

You know, Charlie, he's also, um, I, I think got a couple of key issues that he might make some inroads with.

One of them, of course, the SAFE-T Act that's been in place for a few years now in Illinois, and especially the, uh, the issue with, uh, cash bail, getting rid of that.

Uh, there are some people who I think are not happy with that, certainly, that might, uh, might agree with him, so he might make some points there.

Another one, of course, is property taxes, which, you know, our property taxes are right at the top when it comes to the rest of the country.

Uh, but again, I, I felt like a lot of it was, even when he made those points, I didn't feel as though they came through as well because of this other stunt that he was doing during the debate.

That was just me, at least.

Yeah, and I thought perhaps the, the SAFE-T Act was the thing that, uh, he did best on, and part of it was 'cause there is a lot of concern, uh, y- that there are people who are, who back in the days would've been behind bars, and now they're let out there, and they're committing crimes.

Now, one of the problems, which they didn't really address, is that people, particularly in Cook County, are placed on electronic monitoring, where they have these devices on their ankles that are supposed to keep track of them, and there's a huge percentage of them who get lost, where there's, that nobody knows where they are, and they wind up committing crimes when they're supposed to be watched.

The BUILD Act, no idea.

They have no idea what's going on with the SAFE-T Act.

They have no idea the rights that are being given to 12-year-olds without their parents', you know, notification.

So people are not informed, and so really, that's, that's something that we need to do as much as we can, especially during this election season, so people are aware of what they're voting for.

Whatever he did on day one, I'm gonna reverse it instantaneously.

The SAFE-T Act, null and void.

Let him take me to court.

You gotta know how to win.

Can't the Republicans do what they did in Maine and replace that guy in the same way when, the way they replaced the Biden? There was democracy.

How many people got shot today? Today.

How many women got punched in the face in the loop? You're gonna talk about the SAFE-T Act like it has options? I would rip it out on day one.

That's what the people wanna hear.

It's like you're wishing for it.

I think the biggest problem with the SAFE-T Act, I think we need to repeal it.

Darren Bailey's answer to this is to go back to a system where the most violent criminals can buy their way out of jail.

I'm not running for president like J.B. Pritzker is.

The shootings have to go down.

We've got the SAFE-T Act that is anything but safe.

We put criminals back on the streets and, uh, uh, Nick, I want you just to take me through what happened at Old Orchard, and then I'm gonna give you some stats as to how many people are on home confinement on monitoring devices that I think should be incarcerated right now.

But the reason I say that is because home monitoring devices, that's what the, uh, you know, the guy was wearing the ankle jewelry that, uh, that, uh, killed that guy that worked for the, uh, CTA.

He's charged with aggre- aggravated battery of a police officer, and then he goes home.

Because under Illinois' Safe-T Act, safe, dash T, Safe-T Act, signed by Governor JB Pritzker, the Democrat there, in 2021, with no cash bail provisions taking effect in September 2023, aggravated battery of a police officer does not qualify for pretrial detention unless the officer get, get, get this, suffers great bodily harm.

That's right, aggravated battery of a police officer does not qualify for pretrial detention unless the officer suffers great bodily harm.

I'm, I'm chuckling because I'm so pissed.

A 40-year-old Chicago man was punt- punched a police officer in the face at a train station in June.

Under Illinois's Safe-T Act, the law said he could not be held.

He walked on, uh, he walked on a personal pretrial re- felony pretrial release.

In September, prosecutors say that same man, this is where it gets interesting, shot two people and stomped on one victim's head.