Nice E.M. Program judge Bitch

Damn....the keyboard stuck again....judge Beach:

• More than one-third of the people on electronic monitoring for shoplifting cases in Cook County have gone missing, according to newly released data from Chief Judge Charles Beach. So have a quarter of the robbery defendants. Those are just a couple of the details revealed in a new report issued as part of Beach’s campaign to overhaul the county’s ankle monitor program and improve its transparency.

  Tuesday’s report shows that of the 244 missing defendants, about 24% were on electronic monitoring for domestic-related charges. Alleged shoplifters dominate the balance: 24 people put on ankle monitors after being charged with shoplifting have gone AWOL, but a separate report by Beach’s office shows only 73 people are on ankle monitors for shoplifting, so a third of them have gone missing.

  Also showing above-average disappearance rates: burglars. Nearly 15% of them have slipped away while awaiting trial. And 27% of people charged with battery have gone AWOL, too. For more serious aggravated battery cases, the AWOL rate is 10%.

The main trouble we always saw with EM was that anyone who disregarded the restrictions was more apt to disregard consequences - meaning that when they were in danger of being caught which they almost always were:

• they had broken the law once and got caught, 
• they broke it a second time violating the terms of release,
• then they were far more likely to actively resist arrest and do anything they could to avoid going back inside.

What's a third violation since there weren't any consequences the first two times? This happened time and time again. And now judge Bitch Beach thinks some "study" is going to cure the anti-social tendencies of people (or folks) who had zero regard for the system in the first place?