Woke criminal justice reform harms local communities

Published June 27, 2022 12:00am ET



Since the election of J.B. Pritzker as our governor, Illinoisans have been bombarded with woke policies that have made our neighborhoods increasingly dangerous.

This follows a trend that we’ve seen nationally with the arrival of the Biden administration. Both the Pritzker and the Biden administrations’ policies treat crime as a social disorder rather than a matter of law and order. This attitude is preventing police officers from protecting and serving their communities. Furthermore, while the Democrats’ embrace of woke leftist policies protects hardened criminals over law-abiding citizens, there is no effort to create a genuine rehabilitation component within the criminal justice system. Pritzker appointees released a woman who had killed her two daughters, plus a cop-killer who was convicted of murdering an Illinois state trooper.

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