“This is not an effort to try to take grandma’s house, as a lot of people I think expressed concerns about,' Lightfoot said on Thursday.
The Chicago City Council Committee on Public Safety will meet later today to discuss the so-called Victims’ Justice Ordinance,CBS 2’s Meredith Barack reports the proposal has faced vocal opposition from some critics.'I Missed Him The Whole Time': Chicago Family Grateful As Father Recovers From Shooting, Attempted Carjacking
The attorneys’ letter says the proposed ordinance will cause the city “costly litigation and perpetuate racial disparities in law enforcement practices,” and “it will not reduce harm and violence.” The ordinance is modeled after the 1993 Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act, and would allow the city to file a civil complaint against gang members who knowingly engaged in two or more gang-related criminal offenses within five years of each other.
“In federal court, you’re dealing with organized street gangs – in many cases involving individuals that are in their 30s, sometimes even in their 40s – that are moving large amounts of drugs,” Eric H. Sussman, of Reed Smith LLP, and a former federal prosecutor, told CBS 2’s Megan Hickey last year. Mauck represents four individuals who were sued in Kane County, but that lawsuit was dropped in 2018 over issues proving they were actually members of the gang.
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