From a Friend of McHenry County Blog:
Despite domestic violence spike, Illinois seeks fewer arrests
The mismatch of more domestic violence crime but a new policy that will result in fewer arrests looks silly to me.
I guess if they arrest fewer people for violent acts, they can claim crime is down?
Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser is getting credit for this new policy.
JB Pritzker is too.
Mosser fancies herself an advocate for victims of domestic violence, and she’s even had Republicans palling around with her during election season.
See this flyer from late 2021 where Republican congressional candidate Cassandra Tanner-Miller appeared with Mosser and Democratic state rep candidate Martha Paschke.
anner-Miller was easily defeated in the primary even after the pundit class like Collin Corbett and Rich Miller talked her up as a strong candidate.
I guess voters just couldn’t understand the sophistication and wisdom of the omniscient political commentators.
Paschke was in hot water last year after a Facebook group she was administrator of posted a list of conservative owned local businesses for people to boycott — and Paschke was an alderman in Geneva when this happened.
I guess she just has a different smarter idea of what fostering community looks like as opposed to some backwards Trump supporting restaurateur who wants to create jobs and sales tax revenue for the town Paschke runs and where they both live together.
Anyway, the new law which will result in fewer arrests following violent crime easily passed in Springfield.0 Republicans and Democrats objected to it in the House on original passage. Same with concurrence.
You read that right.
0 Republicans and 0 Democrats opposed it in the Senate.
I guess I’m just a simple fellow who isn’t intelligent enough to comprehend why this — not arresting people following violent crime — is good.
Now if you are a juvenile and beat your family members, maybe you don’t get arrested.
I don’t get it, but politicians assure me that it is called progress.
