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A Chicago man who has had several run-ins with the law was released again recently as the Windy City endures devastating crime.

Laphonza Butler, nominated to the U.S. Senate by Gov. Gavin Newsom, backed a plan to abolish bail across California for criminal suspects.

Illinois eliminated cash bail on Monday, making it the first state in the nation to do so in a decision that brought heavy criticism.

The Illinois Supreme Court issued a decision Tuesday that will allow a state law ending cash bail to take effect September 18, despite a crime wave and concern that arrestees will commit more crimes while awaiting trial.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who is running to fill one of Michigan’s U.S. Senate seats in 2024, touted a partnership Wednesday she made with a left-wing group that pushes extreme policy positions such as abolishing cash bail, amnesty for illegals, and ending the filibuster.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) is vowing to “fight” for a Democrat-approved law that is set to abolish bail statewide, freeing many violent crime suspects from jail before trial, after the state’s Supreme Court stalled the measure. 

A man accused of brutally attacking a homeless man from behind with a baseball bat in New York City was released from jail after posting $7,500 bail.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), running against Republican J.D. Vance for Ohio’s open United States Senate seat, once said he supported “eliminating” cash bail for suspects accused of crimes, calling it “inherently unfair.” 

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, during Thursday night’s debate with Democrat Mandela Barnes, slammed the state’s current leadership for wanting to reduce the prison population by 50 percent and pushing to end cash bail.

Democrat North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley supports “ending the cash bail system,” according to a Tuesday Fox News report.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), running against Mehmet Oz (R) for the state’s open United States Senate seat, suggested in a 2018 speech that the U.S. “get rid of cash bail” for suspects accused of crimes. 

Following Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s call to send Illinois Republican candidate Darren Bailey “back to the farm,” the Republican nominee fired back, calling on the Democrat mayor to get off her “elitist high horse” and “remember who puts food on your plate.”

A convicted felon in Chicago, who was on bail, is being accused by prosecutors of armed robbery and shooting a man, CWB Chicago reported.

70% of arrestees who were released under a new “zero cash bail” policy in Yolo County, California, west of Sacramento, were rearrested, according to a study conducted by the local district attorney’s office and published by the Sacramento Bee.

A Democrat state’s attorney slammed legislation that will end cash bail in Illinois, claiming it will let hundreds of alleged criminals roam free.

A homeless man in Brooklyn arrested three times in 36 hours boasted to police he would avoid being held on bail because he “didn’t have a record,” the New York Post reported Sunday.

Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm, a Democrat, was once championed by progressives as a leader on “criminal justice reform” before a court commissioner released the suspect now accused of killing five Americans and injuring 48 others during a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

In Biden’s America, murders have risen 16 percent in big cities — and to the chagrin of Democrats, U.S. voters are noticing.

Half of arrestees released in San Francisco while awaiting trial went on to commit crimes — while one out of six committed violent crimes, according to a new four-year study by the California Policy Lab of UC Berkeley and UCLA.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Pretrial Fairness Act (HB3653) making the Land of Lincoln the first state to eliminate cash bail.

DCCC senior adviser Dyjuan Tatro has frequently supported defunding America’s law enforcement, called police racist, espoused anti-capitalist views, called to end cash bail, and urged officials to let criminals out of prison.

Rev. Raphel Warnock, the Democrat nominee running against GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler in Georgia, compared the use of “cash bail” in the criminal justice system to “voter suppression.”

A bail fund that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) promoted on Twitter to assist protesters arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, riots earlier this year has freed a man accused of sexually molesting a child, the Daily Caller News Foundation reports.

Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said Tuesday that she would not be able to enforce Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home orders because she was too busy re-arresting accused criminals set free under the state’s new “zero-dollar bail” policy.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said that “hundreds of thousands” of people are in jail “convicted of nothing” and that he plans to end cash bail policy.

California Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to abolish the bail bond business this week is just the first step in a multi-level decriminalization initiativeCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to abolish the bail bond business this week is just the first step in a multi-level criminal justice reform initiative.