"Nearly 100 people charged with murder are free to walk streets of Chicago thanks to woke bail reform...."

 When chaos serves the interests of certain groups, there will be chaos. See Frances Fox Piven for more.*

The continuation of the headline is "....Judge REFUSES to jail suspects accused of violent crimes despite pleas from cops and the Mayor."

From the Daily Mail, January 11:

• 90 people charged with murder are on bail with in Cook County, Chicago 
• 852 people charged with aggravated gun possession are also free 
• They were granted bail with an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet thanks to sweeping 2017 reforms by Judge Timothy Evans
• Since then, crime in Chicago has sky-rocketed and now 75 percent of people on electronic monitoring are violent criminals
• Chicago PD last year arrested 133 people for violent crimes while they were on electronic monitoring 
• Evans says that only three percent of suspects reoffend while on bail, which he thinks justifies the reform despite it still amounting to dozens of crimes 
  

Ninety people accused of murder are free on electronic monitoring ankles in Chicago thanks to woke bail reforms that have put scores of violent criminals back on the streets.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart revealed the numbers to CBS on Monday, along with his fears that it is making communities significantly less safe. 

Dart said that in his county alone, 90 people accused of murder are free along with 40 people charged with attempted murder and 852 people charged with aggravated gun possession. 

In the year 2021, Chicago Police Department arrested 133 people for a violent crime while they were on electronic monitoring - 1 percent of the total. 

Chicago's top cops - Dart and Chicago PD Chief Superintendent David Brown - say that one percent is too high a rate and that while 99 percent may not have been arrested, it sends the wrong message to criminals.  

But Chief Justice Timothy Evans, who imposed the reform in 2017, is refusing to revoke it.  

'A judge cannot hold someone pretrial without a finding that the defendant poses a real and present threat to the physical safety of any person....

....MUCH MORE

Frances Fox Piven and her now deceased husband Richard Cloward came up with what has come to be called the Cloward-Piven Strategy as a method to force change by overwhelming the welfare system in the 1960's. As it turns out, this strategy works in many situations besides welfare: criminal justice and border control are two that come readily to mind but there are at least a half-dozen other areas.

And the strategy goes far beyond simply overwhelming the system.

Some of our previous posts on Ms Piven: 

• Serious Politics: So What Is Frances Fox Piven Thinking About These Days?

• Frances Fox Piven on Why Protesters Must “Defend Their Ability to Exercise Disruptive Power”

• "Frances Fox Piven on the Importance of Social Movements Being ‘Unruly’"

• "Frances Fox-Piven: “We Should Be Prepared for Incredible Waves of Mass Protest”"

• The Importance of Being Unruly ITT from JAMIE MCCALLUM on Vimeo.

• Frances Fox Piven On President Trump: "Throw Sand In the Gears of Everything"

• "The Unemployed Fight Back: An Interview with Frances Fox Piven
  

The original 1966 piece that laid out the plan: 

"Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven: "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty"

In addition to being a social activist she is a first-rate political theoretician in the same way that Saul Alinsky was.

And there seem to be some people using her methods who are pushing the chaos thing until they get a bit of Thomas Carlyle’s whiff of grapeshot describing the end of the French Revolution.

 

Back to Chicago, the local ABC-TV affiliate reported on January 1, 2022:

Chicago crime rate 2021: Year ends as city's deadliest in a quarter century

Chicago recorded more homicides in 2021 than any other city in US, including New York and Los Angeles

L.A and especially NYC are both considerably more populous.