THAT’S RAYYYY-CISSSSS: Kim Foxx claims opponents of ‘No Cash Bail’ fiasco are racists using racist propaganda

Brace yourself for a bunch of stories in the next week or so about what has happened with our state’s first-in-the-nation abolition of cash bail.  Why?  Because we’re coming up on the first anniversary of this flawed and failed system.  Its defenders are trying to circle the wagons and ignore the data we can all see.  We reported on it yesterday:   Roughly 20% of felony arrests in Chicago are out on pre-trial release on earlier arrests under “No Cash Bail.”  That’s up from 8.5% in the cash bail era.

According to the Team Soros Cook County prosecutor Kim Foxx, those opposed to the new, soft-on-crime “No Cash Bail” law based their opposition on racism and racist propaganda.

So I guess that makes me a racist.

But wait, isn’t branding the opposition to leftist schemes as “racism” losing much of its punch?  Seems to be.

But yes, Kim Foxx did just say in an interview that racism drove the opposition to these flawed so-called “criminal justice reform” measures like “No Cash Bail.”

WTTW has the story:

Next week will mark a year since Illinois did away with cash bail — an enormous, precedent-setting dismantling of an early central plank of the criminal justice system. The move was borne of Black legislators’ efforts to systemically uproot racist policies and practices following the 2020 police murder of George Floyd.

Making the change provoked fresh racism, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said Wednesday, in what she called a necessary “honest conversation about what happened in the leadup” of the Pretrial Fairness Act’s implementation.

“I just feel compelled, in my time left in office, to say truths that need to be spoken: It was racist. It was racist,” Foxx said of opponents’ attacks on the law, and her advocacy for it…

Foxx said critics “lied about what was happening with the law” leading up to its rollout by describing it as an unruly mess when policymakers had thoughtfully prepared for the change and her office had been studying and preparing for it since 2017. Foxx said “those in positions of power and journalism” failed to call out “racist propaganda” for what it was.

The story continues and continues then we got to this gem:

But Foxx said it’s clear that the Pretrial Fairness Act did not cause Illinois to “burn down” like critics threatened it would.

Burn down?  No.  Has the standard of living improved?  The quality of life in Chicago improved?  NO.

According to new preliminary data from the Loyola Center for Criminal Justice, shared with Chicago journalists Wednesday during a summit organized by advocates with the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice, crime has not gone up in Illinois since the Pretrial Fairness Act was implemented.

First of all junk science is junk science.  Network for Pretrial Justice?  They certainly don’t have an agenda.

Loyola’s David Olson compared the first six months of last year with this year, and found property and violent crime down both statewide and in Cook County.

Did David Olson factor in the fact that less than half of crimes are reported now?  Or the fact that there aren’t police available to take reports?

“It’s not that they just lied,” Foxx said of Pretrial Fairness Act opponents, but she said they intentionally spread misinformation for political purposes that was picked up by mainstream media, and “it was done in a way where race was at the root.”

Bailey called Foxx’s comments “absolutely disgusting” and “pathetic.”

“The only reason she’s bringing up issues is to divert off of her own failures and shortcomings. She is an absolute failure and a disaster for law and order for Chicago and Cook County,” Bailey said. “I completely view someone like Kim Foxx as an enemy of the people … because she is not upholding and protecting law and order for anyone.”

Bailey said figures that show falling crime are lies, because law enforcement’s hands are tied due to the SAFE-T Act and the Pretrial Fairness Act.

He’s no longer a member of the General Assembly, but a year later remains convinced the law is harmful and should be wiped from the statute books.

“I’m just appalled when I find out when someone is picked up or arrested, that seems to be eight times out of 10 the perpetrator is released or let go before the police are finished filling out the paperwork,” Bailey said. “I still think it’s (the law) an absolute disaster and needs to be repealed.”