Massive Illinois Police Reform Bill Ends Cash Bail, Limits Deadly Force, Mandates Body Cameras, and Makes It Easier To Dump Crooked Cops
Unfortunately, qualified immunity remains intact.
Unfortunately, qualified immunity remains intact.
The tax- and corruption-heavy state has lost a quarter-million people in the past decade.
Tax hikes? Drug wars? Racial Preferences? Not today.
Who could have predicted that intolerable rules won’t be tolerated?
Lawmakers are bribing citizens with a tiny tax break in exchange for the power to jack up income tax rates down the line.
Despite an alarming increase in crime, Illinois is illegally delaying gun licenses.
An Illinois resident obtained a TRO by citing a 30-day limit, while a New Hampshire hair salon owner says the goal of her state's lockdown has been achieved.
Rep. Camille Lilly, who authored the bill, says her legislation will lead to more safety, convenience, and jobs.
In one week alone, newly legal dispensaries made $11 million in sales.
"As a matter of public policy, this system is clearly broken," says Comptroller Susana A. Mendoza.
The Illinois State Police confirms that people who try newly legal marijuana are not considered "unlawful users" of narcotics.
Our most troubled state enters 2020 having lost residents for six years in a row.
Which state do you think will be more successful at moving cannabis consumers to the legal market?
Illinois abolished the death penalty in 2011.
The case vividly illustrates how hate crime laws punish people for the views they express.
Mike Riggs talks with Illinois Policy Institute's Adam Schuster about how to fix the state's pension debt crisis.
While the president's mercy might be self-serving, it's not necessarily wrong.
Proposed federal legislation would move overstressed child protection systems in the wrong direction.
Under its "crime-free housing program," Granite City, Illinois, holds tenants strictly liable for illegal activity by a household member.
Participants in Illinois' new recreational market will have to contend with a lot of taxes and regulations.
Thomas J. Franzen is going to prison for ordering too much medicine.
One legislator tried to stop them by reenacting an infamously dumb anti-drug ad. It didn't work.
Voters will decide next year whether to impose it.
New York legislators also are taking another shot at legalization.
According to the survey, three-fifth of voters think pot should be legal for recreational use.
An anti-pot group's own polling shows that support for legalization is up by 78 percent since November 2017.
Why did the pension board go along with the scam? Probably because its members are current officers and retirees.
The problem isn't a lack of laws, but poor implementation of those laws.
Plus: Nancy Pelosi on the "Green New Deal"; John Boehner, cannabis lobbyist
Dashcam footage shows officers kneeing, tackling, and punching Lawrence Crosby while shouting, "Stop resisting."
Malthusian predictions of global famines keep receding.
Meanwhile, meet a psychologically scarred man who disfigured himself while serving 22 years in solitary in Illinois.
Skyrocketing debt and pension obligations make for a tough labor environment.
Rahm Emanuel wants pot legalization and a casino so the city can grab more taxes for its pension debts.
Blake Coil is trying to support his grandmother's cancer battle. The school doesn't like that his shirt says "tata."
When Tessah Mitchell attempted to register her children for day care, a crime from 18 years ago caught up with her.
Two other Republican incumbents in the Midwest could also be in trouble. And Stacey Abrams could become America's first black female governor.