Contrary to President Trump’s claims, eliminating cash bail has made Illinois safer, advocates say.

While announcing plans to send National Guard troops into the country’s capital, the Trump administration spread falsehoods about crime in Washington, D.C., as well as legal system measures like Illinois’s bail reform. During his remarks at the White House, Trump claimed that “every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster.” “Somebody murders somebody…

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