Maybe Illinois needs a "48 strikes and your out" law.
Anybody think this Reed guy, who set train passenger on fire, should ever be free in society again?
He has been arrested 4 dozen times, 9 times for felony offenses.
He served two years for those 48 arrests.
Then he filled up a plastic bottle with gas, and went looking for someone to light on fire on the train in Chicago. He was successful, but he did have to chase her down briefly before he could get her properly lit on fire.
4 dozen arrests, and the guy was free to do this. WTF???
Replies to: Maybe Illinois needs a "48 strikes and your out" law.
He fled & liberal media would not even describe him..
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As long as he stays out of Lincoln Park and the North Shore, we're good.
Or, at least that seemed to be the prevailing thinking when we lived in IL.
Chicago is a great city, and I loved living in IL, but the wrong-headed thinking and excess taxes made it difficult to stay.
Not justifying this heinous attack by any means...however...it's not easy to institutionalize
mentally ill persons...even violent ones with criminal records. This goes back decades, as the linked AMA article outlines.
We need to face this reality, and be ready to put tax dollars to work addressing it...like we used to do across the nation. In the SF South Bay area we had a facility known as 'Agnews State Hospital' that served as residence and treatment facility for people like Lawrence Reed...it got closed down during Reagan's governorship...but not solely due to his action. A very complex legal issue across the U.S..
Let's not assign blame too quickly....and as for a blanket accusation of Blue Cities...do a search of the truly heinous murder of James Byrd in rural Jasper, Texas...and his assailants.
Link: https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/deinstitutionalization-people-mental-illness-causes-and-consequences/2013-10
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Animals belong in cages. You people want their votes.
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You're a little "Unbalanced" yourself, Jake...
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Here's another article on violent mentally ill persons...
3 different Cook County judges released him.
He knocked out a social worker in a "home" where he was living and was set free. He started a fire at the Cook County courthouse because his government check was late and was set free. It won't happen this time because the Feds are the ones who charged him. The 24 year old victim is fighting for her life. No one on the train helped her. She finally was helped extinguishing the flames when she ran off the train. At the same time, a young mother and her 9 year old son were physically attacked by a mob of grade schoolers. All caught on video. I wonder if Illinois Governor Jelly Belly discussed these two incidents during his recent visit with the pope. They were both yucking it up pretty good at their pow wow. We don't need no stinkin' National Guard help in Chicago. Everything is under control.
That is perfectly common in our system.
We tolerate it. Ultimately, we all tolerate it.
I've been in Chicago all week, whatever's going on here is actually working.
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ICE, ICE baby!
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Chicago Teachers Union has a stranglehold on the whole state.
They, the Chicago media, and the voters share the guilt. The politicians are who they are and don't try to hide it and continue to win elections. Chicago suburban soccer moms put up the yard signs and vote state wide for things that literally hurt themselves in the name of white guilt. Other than John Kaas, Jeannie Ives, Dan Proft and a couple of others, there is no dissenting voice.
This is who Mamdani and his ilk want on the streets.
Because Rikers and artificial constructs are the problem.
Yes, they want people like this released for revenge.
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the idiot liberals who set him free should be burned alive.
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"I can't keep everybody in jail"....Cook County Judge Teresa Molena-Gonzalez.
This is one of three Democrat diversity hire Cook County Illinois judges who released this guy after his 49th arrest. Another one of these Clinton donor Democrat judges who released this guy after yet another arrest is a convicted felon pardoned by Bill Clinton. His name is Ralph Meczyk,, convicted of tax fraud back in the 1980s. Then we have Chicago Mayor BLM Brandon Johnson who believes the proper response to this tragedy is more funding for social workers, violence interrupters, person power, all voices will be heard, unhoused, failure of mental health institutions. All the buzz words you'd hear from a Communist Democrat leader who has no interest in stopping crime and putting the bad guys behind bars. After all, Chicago is a no cash bail city and Illinois is a no cash bail pro-illegal state. Ankle monitoring is a joke in Chicago because no one is doing the monitoring. The Chicago media is complicit and the anti-ICE, anti-National Guard Catholic diocese who has something to say about everything is predictably silent. That's your update. In case you're wondering, the young woman is still critical and fighting for her life.