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One of the most popular policies among “progressive prosecutors” is creating headaches for many police officers and attorneys.
“Because we are sworn to protect and serve the public, we sincerely hope that we will not be proven right about this new law,” the Illinois Law Enforcement Coalition said in a statement earlier this year. “Please don’t let us measure its dismal failure by the shattered lives it produces.”
The statement was in response to a new criminal justice reform bill signed into law by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker in February. Among the provisions in the law is the elimination of cash bail by the year 2023.
Experts: To end Cincinnati s battle with gun violence, we need to do more than make arrests
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters is at war. Neither he nor his assistant prosecutors plan to offer plea deals to people accused of gun crimes in the wake of the July 4 shooting that killed 16-year-old Milo Watson and 19-year-old Dexter Wright in the middle of a crowded Smale Park. Mayor John Cranley is, too. The city of Cincinnati is partnering with the Department of Justice in a new effort to bring federal charges against people who illegally possess firearms. But community leaders and criminal justice experts said it doesnât help to block off only one end of a pipeline. If politicians and police want a less violent city, their drive to charge and jail offenders should move in lockstep with efforts to scrub out the conditions that create crime: Poverty, desperation and inequality.
Community leaders say stop-and-frisk policy won t work to curb violence in Cincinnati
In the wake of a violent summer in Cincinnati, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said heâs focused on getting guns off the streets â even if it means temporarily detaining someone using the stop and frisk method. Local leaders said it will damage police and community relations.
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CINCINNATI â In the wake of a violent summer in Cincinnati that saw several instances of teens or young children being shot and killed, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said heâs focused on getting guns off the streets â even if it means temporarily detaining someone using a stop-and-frisk method.
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In response to Sunday’s mass shooting in a crowded Downtown park, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said he is “declaring war on illegal guns in Cincinnati.”
In a Twitter post Tuesday afternoon, Deters said he has told assistant prosecutors in his office not to offer plea deals in any cases involving gun violence or possession of illegal guns.
“It’s time for this nonsense to end,” Deters said.
It’s unclear if that means all those gun cases – likely in the hundreds – now must go to trial at a time when there have been few jury trials in Hamilton County because of the pandemic.
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