DeKalb Times

House District 76 candidate Jason Haskell is calling on voters to push Democrats who voted for the Safe-T Act out of office.  

“Repeal the SAFE-T Act, reinstate cash bail, and get our law enforcement agencies what they need to take our streets back!” Haskell said on Facebook.

“None of the above will happen if you don’t get out and vote for Darren Bailey for Governor, Thomas DeVore for Attorney General, and every other Republican on the ballot!”

The Safe-T Act has been heavily criticized.

Thousands of criminals who are currently detained in jails around the state while they await trial for major offenses would be freed as a result of the bill.

When the Safe-T Act goes into effect on January 1, 2023, criminals who are presently being held in state prisons while they await trial for major offenses will be released, many of them into Chicago neighborhoods with the highest crime rates.

People accused of the most horrific crimes, such as robbery, abduction, arson, second-degree murder, intimidation, aggravated battery, aggravated DUI, aggravated flight, drug-related homicide, and threatening a public official, will be released if the Safe-T Act is put into practice as intended.

Tom DeVore, GOP candidate for attorney general, claimed that Pritzker sent thugs to disrupt a press conference he was holding in front of the South Lawndale office of the Cook County Department of Corrections.

That conversation concerned the Safe-T Act, which will allow offenders who have been charged with the worst offenses to be put back on the streets.

“Our press conference this morning with a coalition of community activists in the South Suburbs was shut down by supporters of Governor Pritzker and Kwame Raul who turned violent,” DeVore said in the statement. "Public safety and discussions about the SAFE-T Act are absolutely critical, and deserve calm rational discussion. That is not what the left wants. We will not be resuming the press conference today, but we will most certainly be continuing this discussion.”

Radio host Dan Proft, who runs The People Who Play By The Rules PAC, recently discussed the issue with Tucker Carlson and the successful attempts by Pritzker to censor opposition media.

“You know, it's one thing to talk about statistics, to talk about the fact that Chicago is approaching 600 murders and 3,000 people shot just this year alone, but that doesn't bring it home to people the way that something like that ad [“The Scream”] does, which is why they had to collude with the network affiliates in Chicago and make sure nobody sees it, because they want you to believe everything is just fine, join Lori Lightfoot in her karaoke contest, and everything is going to be OK,” Proft said.

“They don't care about crime victims, they care about how crime victims are presented because they need to paper over the fact that this is a team, this duo of Pritzker and Lightfoot, that just moved the most permissive No-Cash-Bail law in the country. I mean Tucker, we have this law [The SAFE-T Act] going into effect January 1 in Illinois –if JB pritzker is not removed from office on November 8th– a law going into effect…these are non-detainable offenses: arson, aggravated assault, second-degree murder, kidnapping...you walk. In Chicago alone, we have had 45 people on electronic monitoring who have attempted to kill or kill somebody while on electronic monitoring, and that crime is coming to the suburbs.”