Mayor Lori Lightfoot and police leaders lean on flawed information to argue releasing criminal defendants on electronic monitoring worsens violence problem
Mayor Lori Lightfoot wrote to the Cook County chief judge, requesting that judges should stop ordering certain defendants to await trial at home with an electronic-monitoring ankle bracelet. Many of the claims and statistics in her letter are misleading, the Tribune found after examining the cases highlighted by the mayor.
Source: chicagotribune.com
