And Again

It never ends:

• A 27-year-old man who escaped electronic monitoring earlier this year is now charged with trying to kill a Cook County Sheriff’s Police officer who tried to take him back into custody on the South Side, according to prosecutors.

  Members of a fugitive apprehension team tracked down Antwan Ford on December 2, six months after he cut off his ankle monitor device and disappeared from his Ford Heights home, officials said. When officers located him near 74th Street and Colfax Avenue, Ford drove his black GMC Terrain directly at a task force officer, according to prosecutors. Ford allegedly pinned the 51-year-old officer between the SUV and a building, then continued driving. The injured officer was taken to the University of Chicago Hospital with injuries to both legs.

  Ford is charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery of a peace officer, and leaving the scene of an accident involving injury. He is the 22nd person accused of shooting, killing, or trying to shoot or kill someone in Chicago this year while on felony pretrial release. Judge John Hock ordered him detained on the new charges.

Only 22 offenders? That appears to only count the people (or folks) who "escaped" E.M. If you add in all the SAFE-T Act offenders and the parole violators, it would be a bit higher.