Former Illinois law enforcement officials are sounding the alarm that eliminating cash bail is a 'backdoor way' to defund police and will likely lead to a mass exodus of officers.
"You're going to see a lot of dissatisfaction in the job, and you're going to see police officers say, ‘Why even bother?’" Weitzel said.
New police officers are sworn in at a Chicago Police Department promotion and graduation ceremony on Oct. 20, 2021. Hackett added that eliminating cash bail also cuts revenue streams to programs that support victims. He said that revenue from bail is $300,000 in some counties, which is often used to pay for crime victims funds or domestic violence funds, which were established to"to reduce the financial burden imposed onand their families," according to the Illinois attorney general’s website that details the state’s Crime Victims Compensation Program.
The law was left in legal limbo after a Kankakee County judge ruled in December that the law was unconstitutional, and the state Supreme Court announced it would hear appeals for the case. Politicians and activists in the state have championed the law as one that would help unravel an allegedly biased and racist judicial system that they said unfairly targets minorities in the state.
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