SAFE-T Act still Failing

Or is this another E.M. success story?

• A Chicago man already on pretrial release shot a 20-year-old woman in the face and when cops tracked him down, they found a cut-off ankle monitor and two guns in his apartment, prosecutors said. Daniel May, 19, is the third person accused of shooting or trying to shoot someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for another case.

  Officers responded at 6:43 p.m. on January 13 to reports of a person shot in the 6700 block of South Crandon Avenue. The victim waved them down and explained that a man and a woman had shot her and were still inside a nearby apartment, armed, prosecutors said in a detention filing.

  The cops followed a blood trail to an apartment and detained 21-year-old Maleah Carter when she answered the door. May was spotted exiting a rear bedroom and was also detained, according to prosecutors. Officers found a 9mm shell casing in the bathroom and a bullet-sized hole in the nearby hallway wall. Prosecutors said the path of the bullet traced through the wall into a closet and out through a sliding door into the living room. Two young children were allegedly present in the apartment.

  Officers also recovered a cut-off ankle monitor, two firearms, and a firearm spring in the rear of the building.

If only there was a minimally occupied secure set of buildings that could be used to detain criminals until trial and sentencing somewhere in Cook County.