JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson will hand you a stack of reports saying crime is down.
Not one of them brings back a 7-year-old girl stabbed on a Chicago sidewalk, and not one brings back Officer John Bartholomew, shot by a man who was out on pretrial release for armed robbery.
Illinois keeps giving second, third, and fourth chances to people who've already shown us who they are. The people paying for that generosity are the ones who never got a first chance to see it coming.
Repeat offenders belong in a cell, not on our streets.