Illinois

sinkingfeeling

(51,519 posts) Wed Jan 13, 2021, 09:04 PM Jan 2021

Illinois police reform bill clears House, heads to governor

https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/state-news/illinois-police-reform-bill-clears-house-heads-to-governor/

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — The Illinois House has passed a controversial police reform bill which will now head to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk to be signed into law.

A modified version of the comprehensive police reform plan would eliminate cash bail within 2 years; allow the use of deadly force only when an officer acts in self defense or defending others from bodily harm; makes it easier to decertify officers by eliminating signed affidavit of complaint; limits the purchase of specialized tactical (military) equipment; and mandates the use of police body cameras for all officers by 2025.

A provision which would have removed qualified immunity for individual police officers, potentially exposing them to civil lawsuits, was eliminated from the new version of the bill.

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Illinois police reform bill clears House, heads to governor (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Jan 2021 OP

Ugggg qualified immunity mikeysnot Jan 2021 #1

+1 lunasun Jan 2021 #2

I had heard on Chicago TV news BunnyMcGee Jan 2021 #3

Holy fucking shit mikeysnot Jan 2021 #4

I was wrong too... BunnyMcGee Jan 2021 #5

mikeysnot

(4,758 posts)

1. Ugggg qualified immunity

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Original post)

Wed Jan 13, 2021, 09:12 PM

Jan 2021

Was the part that needed to be the center of this bill. I am sick of paying
Restitution to victims of police brutality and wrongful convictions bas3d on fabricated evidence and forced false confessions..

Last I looked we paid out over 80-100 million dollars in Chicago alone.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

2. +1

Reply to mikeysnot (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 13, 2021, 10:41 PM

Jan 2021

BunnyMcGee

(465 posts)

3. I had heard on Chicago TV news

Reply to mikeysnot (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 13, 2021, 10:56 PM

Jan 2021

ABC or WGN that over the last 20 years the total paid out was over 1/2 billion dollars.

[link:https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/09/04/police-lawsuit-settlement-cost/#:~:text=City%20Has%20Paid%20More%20Than,To%20Settle%20Lawsuits%20Against%20Police&text=CHICAGO%20(CBS)%20%E2%80%94%20Fifty%2D,against%20the%20Chicago%20Police%20Department.|

City Has Paid More Than $524 Million Over Past Decade To Settle Lawsuits Against Police
September 4, 2019 at 6:37 pm

mikeysnot

(4,758 posts)

4. Holy fucking shit

Reply to BunnyMcGee (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 13, 2021, 11:23 PM

Jan 2021

I always want to underestimate.. so that I can say I was wrong.

“I’m sorry I was wrong. I said 75 million but it was really 500 million. “

BunnyMcGee

(465 posts)

5. I was wrong too...

Reply to mikeysnot (Reply #4)

Thu Jan 14, 2021, 11:02 PM

Jan 2021

more than $500 million in TEN years, not 20!

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