The last several years have proven that there are too many soft-on- crime judges to justify judges having wide discretion when it comes to freeing criminals. Legislative mandatory minimums and mandatory holds are needed to remove that discretion from judges.

We have another example of a judge putting people’s lives at risk in Chicago . Lawrence Reed is a career criminal who has been arrested 13 times since 2017, having been charged five separate times with battery, along with charges of assault and arson. He has faced 53 criminal cases going back to 1993 and has pleaded guilty to nine felonies in that time. He is exactly the kind of person who should be locked away for life — someone who has proven that he is utterly and completely incapable of functioning in a civilized society.

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