Nearly 100 people charged with murder are free to walk streets of Chicago thanks to woke bail reform: Judge REFUSES to jail suspects accused of violent crimes despite pleas from cops and the Mayor

 Ninety people accused of murder are free on electronic monitoring ankles in Chicago thanks to woke bail reforms that have put scores of violent criminals back on the streets.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart revealed the numbers to CBS on Monday, along with his fears that it is making communities significantly less safe. 

Dart said that in his county alone, 90 people accused of murder are free along with 40 people charged with attempted murder and 852  people charged with aggravated gun possession. 

In the year 2021, Chicago Police Department let 2,300 people go free on an ankle monitoring bail. 

Of them, 133 were arrested for committing another violent crime, according to Mayor Lori Lightfoot last week. 

Chicago's top cops - Dart and Chicago PD Chief Superintendent David Brown - are warning that it will lead to a spike in crime either by suspects on bail reoffending, or others being emboldened by the soft touch. 

'The fact that over 90 people charged with murder have been released by our courts, back into the community does two things. 

'Number one, it creates this idea of lawlessness for people in the community who know someone murdered someone, and yet there they see him again, the following days, as if nothing happened. 

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The reforms were imposed by Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans in 2017. He is now refusing to revoke them despite pleas from police and the city's Mayor, because he thinks suspects should be jailed only after they are found guilty

'Secondly, because these people murdered someone, the victim and their associates retaliate indiscriminately of where they are. So whether in a car with their kids, whether they're in a large crowd or gathering, they are the targets for retaliation,' he said in one of many remarks on the issue last year. 

The reforms were imposed by Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans in 2017. 

Since then, crime in Chicago has skyrocketed and now, 75 percent of those with electronic monitoring bracelets are accused of violent crimes. 

Despite pleas from Mayor Lori Lightfoot to lock up violent defenders, he is refusing to change the reform because he thinks it makes suspects 'guilty before they are proven innocent.' 

He says that 'only' three percent of those who are on electronic monitoring while charged with felonies have been known to reoffend, which justifies the reforms. 

Three percent of 2,300 amounts to nearly 70 crimes.  

Mayor Lightfoot suggested it was only a matter of time before the criminal currently on bond reoffend. 

'Do you feel safer knowing these numbers? I don’t think any sane person does.

'They’re right back on the street walking big as day as if there is zero accountability. 

'That’s what’s contributing to the level brazenness that we’re seeing on our street,' she said last week.  

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart and Mayor Lori Lightfoot are both pleading for changes that would put more suspects in jail while awaiting trial

It is part of a wider trend across the country whereby woke District Attorneys are instructing prosecutors to seek no or low jail terms for defendants on bond. 

Many of them have been bankrolled by George Soros, the Democrat super-donor.  

Last week, Judge Evans refused to Lightfoot's request to put an end to the ankle monitoring system. 

Last April, seven-year-old Jaslyn Adams was shot and killed by a trio of gang members including one who was on bail with an ankle monitor 

'A judge cannot hold someone pretrial without a finding that the defendant poses a real and present threat to the physical safety of any person. 

'This must be found by clear and convincing evidence and the burden of proof is on the prosecution. 

'The mayor’s proposal seems to require that defendants facing certain allegations be considered guilty until proven innocent,' he said. 

In July, Chicago police officers came under fire from Klevontaye White, 34, who had cut off his ankle monitor and was wanted for aggravated sexual assault with a firearm. 

He was accused of more than a dozen sex crimes at the time but had been allowed out of custody. 

Police shot him dead after he pulled a gun in them. 

In April last year, seven-year-old Jaslyn Adams was shot dead in a McDonald's drive-thru by a trio of gang members who were targeting her father. 

One of them, Desmond Goudy, was out on electronic monitoring at the time.