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While some Republicans want the new law repealed that changes
the rules for everything from cash bail to how Illinois
prosecutors can deal with suspects in violent crimes, Devore
said lawmakers should amend it.
“The improvement is going to require putting deference, in some
fashion with some guidelines, back in front of the judges that
see these people day-to-day, that see the criminals in their
communities, and who understand their communities,” Devore said
at a new conference Thursday.
Devore blamed the Democrat-controlled legislature for taking
away that difference when it passed the SAFE-T Act in January of
last year.
“What we’ve really done is to centralize a lot of this
discretion into a statute that was crammed through the
legislature in three days,” Devore added.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is defending the SAFE-T Act, even
though he said changes could be made to the new law. The
governor, however, didn’t say what those changes could be.
The full SAFE-T Act is set to go into effect in January.
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