A Chicago-area judge rejected a request from Mayor Lori Lightfoot to halt electronic monitoring for accused violent offenders, allowing those charged with dangerous crimes to return to the streets.
Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans said Tuesday that granting the requested moratorium on electronic monitoring would have violated both the U.S. and state constitutions and would deem defendants"considered guilty until proven innocent," theIn a letter addressed to the judge on Dec.
"I must continue to sound the alarm about the growing number of pre-trial offenders released back to the communities in Chicago on electronic monitoring," Lightfoot wrote."The ballooning number of violent and dangerous people on EM is one of those drivers as they impact the communities to which the return in multiple, harmful ways."The mayor cited Chicago police records that indicate 130 people were arrested while they were on electronic monitoring for a"violent offense.
Evans issued a mandate in 2017 for judges to reduce the number of inmates in Cook County Jail awaiting trial by granting more affordable bail amounts and increasing recognizance bonds and electronic monitoring, the Sun-Times reported. The number of people on electronic monitoring continued to increase in 2020 when officials sought to reduce the jail population to combat the spread of COVID-19.
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