Letters: Blue Line attack does not justify rolling back Pretrial Fairness Act

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...

The recent attack on the Blue Line is heartbreaking, and my heart goes out to the victim and her family. As we search for answers, we must resist the urge to use a single, deeply tragic case to drive sweeping rollbacks of the Pretrial Fairness Act — a reform that has been working as intended for thousands of Illinois residents.

Opponents of the reform offer one solution: Prevent an act of violence by incarcerating thousands of legally innocent people, costing them their jobs, homes, stability and future. We tried that approach for decades, and the results were clear: Mass incarceration didn’t make us safer. In fact, it made our communities more fractured and less stable. We saw mothers separated from their children, workers stripped from jobs