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philadelphia yesterday, outgoing chicago mayor lori lightfoot, a democrat, put her party on notice for its rhetoric on crime. as democrats if we do not speak the truth about violent crime in our city, we will be the worst for it. if we say yeah , the police department is spending all this time and resources to rest put a case on and then the judges and the prosecutors say, you know what? we're going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again. and if we don't call that out every single day with these prosecutors and with the judges, many of whom don't live in our cit...

truth about violent crime in our city, we will be the worst for it. if we say yeah, the police department is spending all this time and resources to rest but a case on and then the judges and the prosecutors say, you know what? we're going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again. and if we don't call that out every single day with these prosecutors and with the judges, many of whom don't live in our city and don't care about what's happening, then we are going to lose an opportunity to advocate for the victims and the witnesses and a resident who just want in des...

Rather than address its deadly jail system or predatory bail industry, the state has made mutual aid the enemy.

Across the country, ordinary people are challenging the ideas that prosecutions and prisons make us safer; that public officials charged with maintaining “law and order” are carrying out the will of the people; and that justice requires putting people in cages.

This is a terrifying use of Georgia's RICO law.