It's our job to try and protect our officers," Moylan said at a press conference last week. "There's an uptick in not only assaults against police officers, but assaults, shootings and killings. Moylan is also working on a third piece of legislation that would funnel $100 million for additional safety equipment, training, facility improvements, and personnel. The lawmakers point to a Grant Park protest - where officers were injured when Molotov cocktails were hurled - as an example of the need for tougher punishment.Īccording to the FBI, 60,105 officers were attacked and more than 60,000 officers were assaulted in 2020, which is up 4,000 from the year before, reports ABC 7’s Craig Wall. Hurley’s Police Hate Crime bill, co-sponsored by Moylan, distinguishes harm against an officer or the stalking of an officer as a hate crime and increases penalties for those offenses. Moylan’s Police Protection Act would increase penalties for assaults on officers and would require state’s attorneys to report on the number of offenses against officers and how the cases are handled. POLICE PROTECTION: Illinois lawmakers could make it a hate crime to attack police officers because of their profession under legislation proposed by Democratic Reps. That might be because Joe Cook, the committeeman, is also principal attorney for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District that Steele leads. The 41st Ward Democrats also endorsed Steele. The 38th Dems aren’t the only ones to turn their back on Kaegi. Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough is also backing Steele.īut Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who has in the past counted Martwick as an ally, has endorsed Kaegi and said she believes he will be slated along with other incumbents. His office took in Berrios staffers after Berrios lost the county assessor’s race. Opponents to Kaegi may see a friend in Steele, who is backed by some old-guard Democrats, including Secretary of State Jesse White. But that hasn’t stopped Martwick and other property tax appeals attorneys from pushing back against Kaegi, who has criticized the previous administration for overestimating the value of single-family homes and undervaluing (so they pay less taxes) pricier homes and commercial properties.
Martwick’s bill might have slipped through if it weren’t for then-mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot, who brought attention to it when she famously stood up to Martwick (after he crashed one of her campaign events) and called him out for filing the bill. Eyebrows raised at the time because Martwick is also a property tax appeal attorney and was accused of putting his fingers in the pie, trying to change how the system worked. Robert Martwick, a Berrios friend and ally who in 2019, a few months after Kaegi was elected, introduced a bill in the General Assembly to change the Cook County assessor’s job from an elected position to an appointed one. There’s a bit of a backstory: The 38th Ward Democratic committeeman is state Sen. Democrats from the 38th Ward voted in a pre-slating session to endorse Kaegi’s opponent, Kari Steele, the president of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, instead. In the 2018 Democratic primary, Fritz Kaegi knocked Joe Berrios off his perch as Cook County assessor and a few old-school Democrats have never forgotten. LAST NIGHT IN WISCONSIN - " A person plowed their SUV through the Waukesha Christmas Parade, leaving five dead and more than 40 injured authorities say," by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Bill Glauber, Mary Spicuzza and Molly Beck TOP TALKER PROGRAMMING NOTE: We’ll be off for the big gobble gobble this Thursday and Friday but back to our normal schedule on Monday, Nov.
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