Hiding Criminal Records

So not only is Fata$$'s SAFE-T Act releasing criminals back onto the streets at an alarming rate, now offenders will be able to hide their criminal tendencies and past records:

• Just the other day, a man was beaten with a metal pipe in Chicago's loop by Piere Thorne, a career criminal with 57 prior arrests. The victim, an unidentified man, suffered a bleeding head wound, lost teeth, andsuffered facial and jaw fractures as well as cuts to his face.

  Thanks to Illinois' ridiculous pro-criminal policies, Thorne will not spend a day behind bars for this attack. Late last year, career criminal Lawrence Reed set a 26-year-old woman on fire on Chicago's Blue Line. Reed had anywhere from 22 to 49 prior arrests, according to various media reports. He was later charged in conjunction with an arson at Chicago City Hall that predated his attack on the woman.

  But Democrats haven't met a criminal they won't go to the mattresses for, and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is no exception.

  He's just signed the "Clean Slate Act" which would seal criminal records every six months. That way, we'll never know how many dozens of arrests criminals in Chicago have when they rob, maim, or murder more innocent citizens.

There are a couple exceptions that democrats are hanging their hats on:

• sexual violence against minors, 
• DUIs, 
• reckless driving,
• serious violent crime

But there is no mechanism for those who plead violent crimes down from higher charges. How many times have we seen particularly Aggravated Batteries pled down to Simple Battery for whatever reason? We were the victim in quite a few of those types of incidents over our careers. 

Do you think an employer would like to know if an applicant has a habit of attacking police? Or a landlord might like to know if someone with an unhealthy interest in property damage would make a good tenant?

But now, you won't know what you're hiring or who you're renting to.