The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2021

State legislators are emerging as the biggest threat to prosecutors leading the movement for criminal justice reform, according to a paper published in the Illinois Law Review online. . candidate at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

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The Crime Report

MAY 12, 2022

A 36-year-old man walked out of an Illinois prison last May in a pair of joggers and a T-shirt. If we’re Number 1, it must be really bad for other states, because it’s rough enough here in Illinois,” Cook said. It ranked Illinois as No. Coming off a 10-year prison sentence, he had no money. 1 for the second year in a row.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The study based its estimates on an analysis of people released after serving prison sentences of 10 years or more in Illinois. The study found that reducing sentences of over 10 years by one year could reduce Illinois’s average daily prison population by 1.3 percent, which would slice prison costs dramatically.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2021

Chester Weger was convicted in 1961 of the notorious “Starved Rock Murders, ” in which three women were brutally killed and their bodies left in a park located in LaSalle County, Illinois about two hours southwest of Chicago. Andy Hale is a civil rights attorney, specializing in wrongful convictions in Chicago, Illinois.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Seven states — Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and South Carolina — have mandated statewide body-worn camera adoption, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

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The Crime Report

JULY 12, 2021

While seven states — Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and South Carolina — have mandated statewide body-worn camera adoption, as of 2018 more than half of states have no rule dictating where, when and how body cams have to be used. But adoption and implementation differs dramatically across states.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2021

Because of this, 25 states, including Calorifica, New York, and Illinois are considering “second look laws” that will give incarcerated individuals the chance to have their sentences reduced after they’ve served a certain amount of years. . Another perspective notes that our U.S. Ghandnoosh points advocates to Washington, D.C.’s,

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Bates-Chamberlain, the Executive Director of Live Free Illinois , shared that as someone who grew up in the south side of Chicago, she connects to the concept of bringing the “aunties and the activists together.”. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain is the Executive Director of Live Free Illinois. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain. He retired from the St.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

ADDITIONAL READING: Illinois Scores Top Rank in Reintegrating Ex-Incarcerees, Alaska, Florida are Lowest , The Crime Report, March 21, 2021. Formerly incarcerated people are nearly 10 times more likely to be homeless than the general public, and 750,000 New York City residents have a record.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Those states (and their current percentage of female troopers) are Illinois (10 percent), Iowa (6 percent), Massachusetts (5 percent), Vermont (13 percent) and Washington (10 percent). At least five state policing agencies have made a goal to have 30 percent of their recruits by 2030 be women.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

See Also: Illinois Lawmakers Weigh Voting Rights for People Behind Bars. To add to the advancement, three other states and the federal government alike took steps to expand awareness of voting eligibility to make sure that every person’s voice was heard. . Reintegration Awards.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

As the holiday shopping season approaches, a string of “smash-and-grab” robberies have hit luxury retailers in California and Illinois, leaving authorities shocked by the brazen nature of the thefts that have involved sometimes dozens of people at a time, reports Reuters.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 13, 2022

According to Axios , these mass shootings occurred across 15 states — Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Maryland, Arizona, Virginia, South Carolina, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, Nebraska and Oklahoma. According to the Gun Violence Archive , the bills in the Senate and New York come as the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 26, 2022

The grants to Cook County (Illinois), New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Pima County (Arizona) are part of an inaugural “racial equity cohort” announced last week by the foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge (SJC) initiative. cities and counties have been awarded $2 million in grants by the John D. and Catherine T.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In 2011, the ACLU joined with the Central Austin Neighborhood Association to file a lawsui, accusing he Chicago Police Department (CPD) of violating the Illinois Civil Rights Act because of “alleged racial and ethnic disparities in the time it takes to respond to 911 calls for emergency services.”.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 28, 2022

Last summer, the Senate version of the House bill, Bill 601, Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act , co-sponsored by Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin of Illinois, and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The full U.S.

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The Crime Report

MAY 10, 2023

He began his career in corrections with the Illinois Department of Corrections at Stateville and Joliet Penitentiaries. Prior to that, he was the Director of the Institute of Crime, Justice and Corrections at the George Washington University, and Executive Vice President for the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

For example, in Illinois, North Carolina and Texas, licensure boards are prohibited from considering arrests that failed to result in a conviction. States have implemented a variety of fair chance licensing reforms in recent years.

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The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2021

In fact, at least 350,000 people in Illinois alone were victims of unemployment fraud through identity theft by January. Taking advantage of unemployment benefits posed by the federal government , perpetrators of fraud have been found to steal citizen’s identities to apply for aid, often creating fake tax documents to lessen suspicion.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

According to the Transforming School Discipline Collaborative , Illinois had 340,644 suspensions, expulsions and transfers to alternative schools in place of other disciplinary measures. Black students comprised roughly 45 percent of the students impacted by these approaches, even though Black students formed only 17.5

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The Crime Report

JULY 12, 2021

“Early COVID-19 compassionate release decisions reveal that courts continue to base early release decisions primarily on an assessment of public safety risk from crime, not community impact, crime victim impact, or even prisoner health,” asserts Jennifer Brobst , associate professor of law at Southern Illinois University and author of the paper.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In Illinois, the Peoria Sheriff’s Office is offering a $10,000 signing bonus, for instance. Cox attributed the decline to “a lack of political and law enforcement leadership, misinformation about the meaning of defund the police, dissatisfaction with the criminal justice system and anti-police sentiment,” according to ABC News.

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The Crime Report

JULY 9, 2021

While seven states — Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and South Carolina — have mandated statewide body-worn camera adoption, as of 2018 more than half of states have no rule dictating where, when and how body cams have to be used. But adoption and implementation differs dramatically across states.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 7, 2022

The other authors are: Theodore Wilson, of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany; Hilary Jackl, of SUNY Albany; Jalon Arthur, Chicago CRED ; and Christopher Patterson, of the Illinois Office of Firearm Violence Prevention. Funding for this study was provided by Everytown for Gun Safety. Additional Reading.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

Santiago , the Illinois Court of Appeals in 2018 found that a defendant’s hostile language constituted aggression and thus invalidated his claim to self-defense. Commonwealth , the Supreme Court of Virginia found that the self-defense argument does not extend to cases where an individual responds to offensive language like insults.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2023

Recently a series of news stories were published in Joliet, Illinois, by Joliet’s local Patch homepage. And certainly, not all registrants are pedophiles. Sexual convictions run the gamut from public exposure to violent rape.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Illinois: Secretary of State Temporarily Closed for In-Person Services. Due to an increase in COVID-19 cases statewide, all Illinois Secretary of State departments are closed for in-person services from January 3 to January 17, 2022. To review the BOI notice of proposed rulemaking, visit the FinCEN website here and here.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Illinois became the first state to eliminate all forms of money bail in 2021. Other factors, such as a family emergency, a sickness, or work issue are bigger contributing factors; and in those cases, court officers are dispatched to get the defendant to court. And at least 10 other states, including California and New York.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Some states, such as Illinois, have begun to consider restoring parole. “We have to yield this idea that we want people to suffer, that we want vengeance when we punish people who have committed crimes,” argued Dr. Montross. Frank Baumgartner.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 5, 2022

Horrific events such as the mass shootings at Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University and the mall shooting at Tinley Park, Chicago are reminders that securing similar settings is almost an impossible task. Soft targets are also vulnerable to those who feel they are victims of perceived injustice.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Within days of his arrival at a maximum security prison in Illinois, Kilroy Watkins was given an exam book, a pencil, and one hour to complete a required test to assess new prisoners’ skills and abilities. As Illinois added more facilities to house these new prisoners, the school district kept pace with the demand for programming.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. It sits across the street from farmland and is 2 miles from the Illinois city’s police department, which makes for a short trip when the school calls 911. It’s actually a tiny public school for children with disabilities.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

The Cook County public guardian is suing Illinois child welfare officials for allowing foster children to remain locked up in juvenile detention even after they’ve been ordered released — a problem that has only gotten worse, an Illinois Answers Project investigation found last year. It feels like nobody cares about me.

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The Crime Report

JULY 15, 2022

He’s waiting to hear on a clemency petition that has been sitting on Illinois Gov. Pippins was sentenced in Illinois but was allowed to spend the majority of his incarceration in Iowa because he wanted to be closer to his family. One night, Pippins and his crew attempted to rob Jermaine Campbell at his home in Rock Island, Illinois.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 28, 2021

Victor Plantinga , a criminal defense attorney who primarily litigates in the federal courts in Wisconsin and Illinois, said remote proceedings have saved money and time.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 8, 2022

“We knew 2022 was going to be a difficult year to pass any reforms or to reimagine public safety,” said Robert Peters, chair of the Public Safety Committee in the Illinois Senate. “[So] Robert Peters.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2022

” For Nelson, the answer was relocating to Tucson and creating a free online network that connects people in Arizona and Illinois prisons with local service providers. “We did about 10,000 directories, and the state of Illinois’ Department of Corrections (DOC) asked if we could do it for the whole state.”

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