Amazing what a new prosecutor sees. Problem-plagued electronic monitoring program has become 'a serious threat to public safety' top Cook County prosecutor says - CWB Chicago
That would be Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who took office recently, and is trying to fix the disaster that Kim Foxx left in her wake.
That’s Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who instructed the county’s prosecutors to publicly object anytime a judge places a defendant on an ankle monitor instead of granting the state’s request to keep them in jail.
After years of effort, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart successfully transferred responsibility for the electronic monitoring program on April 1. Dart has repeatedly said the county is misusing the program by putting violent and dangerous offenders on ankle monitors when the system was designed for low-level offenses like drug possession.
There are some examples of how it went wrong. Click thru.
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