Fata$$ Facing Reality?

This amusing article caught our attention:

• Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Friday he is willing to consider changes to Illinois’ SAFE-T Act after a man with a lengthy criminal record was charged with setting a passenger on fire aboard a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train.

  The attack occurred on November 17th, when authorities say 50-year-old Lawrence Reed doused a 26-year-old woman with gasoline and ignited her. The victim remains hospitalized in critical condition.

Anyone know why he might have had a change of heart?

It could be this article that got published about an hour before he had his sudden enlightenment:

• In New York City in 2022, just 327 people accounted for a third of all shoplifting, with more than 6,000 arrests between them. In Oakland, 0.1% of the population — that's 400 people — committed a majority of the city's homicides in recent years. "In 2014, data showed that three-quarters of state prisoners...had at least five prior arrests," Fortgang wrote. "Nearly 5 percent had 31 or more, a larger share than those imprisoned after just a single arrest. "

  Fortgang concluded that "The case for an incapacitation-first approach to crime control follows directly from these indisputable facts."

"....an incapacitation-first approach" means if you jail the offenders - especially repeat offenders, crime goes down. Significantly. 

Golly. Those law-and-order types might really be onto something!