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Illinois Passes ‘the Purge’ Law : Crime To Become Legal by Sonicroyel: 3:02am On Sep 15, 2022
Illinois is making history—and headlines—for being the first state in the US to pass a new controversial law whose consequences have been compared with the dystopian action horror film The Purge, a movie in which all violent crime is legal for 24 hours.

Come 1 January 2023, the ‘SAFE-T Act’ will be active in the state. Its catchy name stands for ‘Safety, Accountability, Fairness, and Equity-Today’ and will allow its residents to commit crimes freely. Or so people think.

In other words, it’s aimed at reforming Illinois’ cash bail system by basically getting rid of cash bail entirely. It also limits who can be arrested and held in jail based on the crime they are alleged to have committed.

The law would end cash bail for 12 non-detainable offences. This includes second-degree murder, aggravated battery, arson, drug-induced homicide, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, intimidation, aggravated driving under the influence (DUI), aggravated fleeing and eluding, drug offences and threatening a public official. Yep, we know what you’re thinking—these are some pretty serious crimes.

As you can imagine, many members of the law enforcement community have heavily criticised the move and are working as hard as they can to have the current law amended. Some state officials even claim it’s going to worsen crime in Illinois.

“I’m very concerned about an increase in violent crime. But again I do want to stress there is still time to fix it. And the state’s attorneys are working very hard as we have been for the last year and a half to fix this law. It is very fixable, where we can still eliminate cash bail but make sure the right people are in custody and everybody else who’s not a danger gets out,” said DuPage County state’s attorney Robert Berlin.

The Safe-T Act would allow defendants of the crimes listed above to become eligible for pretrial release. However, this will only be made possible if prosecutors don’t present “clear and convincing evidence” showing the suspect poses a threat to a specific person.

This will, in turn, have an impact on how quickly detainees get ‘dealt with’—since the state will have to hold a trial within 48 hours to determine if the suspect should be released. Investigators believe that’s not enough time to compile sufficient evidence from surveillance and body cameras, crime labs and forensic analysis.

Keeping that in mind, it does make you wonder: is the SAFE-T Act about to turn Illinois into a playground for violence and crime or will it be the first step in ending mass incarceration in the US?

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Re: Illinois Passes ‘the Purge’ Law : Crime To Become Legal by Wisetrue99: 5:30am On Sep 15, 2022
Na to commot for Illinois

The reasoning alone dey corrupt mind!

Nothing go carry me enter another Sodom and Gomorrah!

I don talk my own
Re: Illinois Passes ‘the Purge’ Law : Crime To Become Legal by Mercury12(m): 5:57am On Sep 15, 2022
Nawa o shocked
Many are mad and they are roaming in Illinois
Re: Illinois Passes ‘the Purge’ Law : Crime To Become Legal by tjfulloption(m): 7:04am On Sep 15, 2022
The Purge Anachy, let everyone stay safe.
Re: Illinois Passes ‘the Purge’ Law : Crime To Become Legal by paradiseVirgin: 1:56pm On Sep 15, 2022
Na to go Illinois during the purge go rape some bitches cool
Re: Illinois Passes ‘the Purge’ Law : Crime To Become Legal by Obagofixxy: 3:08pm On Sep 15, 2022
the purge..... Bloody movie
Re: Illinois Passes ‘the Purge’ Law : Crime To Become Legal by temitope27(m): 4:22pm On Sep 15, 2022
Omo this kain law for sweet for Lagos ooo grin grin na joke


I watched that movie it's something else
Re: Illinois Passes ‘the Purge’ Law : Crime To Become Legal by JewsAreSatanic: 4:32pm On Sep 15, 2022
Illinois is a DemonRat shithole and what you are seeing with these lax laws is nothing new.

The Jewish Bolsheviks recruited criminals into their ranks who in turn where instrumental in seeing to a successful bloody revolution that birthed the Jewish dominated Soviet Union.

Those revolutionary criminals became members of the dreaded state security known as the CHEKAS and went on to unleash a blood bath the world had never seen.

The Jewish Bolsheviks and their criminals in the CHEKAS killed well over 20 million people under the guise of fighting counter revolutionary activities and the White Army resistance.

This is what Bio-Leninism entails. Recruit the dredges and outcastes info your ranks as they will become the most committed to the cause as their new found positions and fortunes are tied to the continued success of the govt.
The
The DemonRat party has since declared itself as a communist party by their actions and level of intolerance..

They have the LGBTQ+ lunatics in their ranks, the ghetto criminal and ex convict types, and the illegal aliens they are shipping across the border from across socialist countries in South America.

The DemonRats have sworn to destroy society and build it from scratch into their satanic luciferian liking.

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