Illinois has just had another wake-up call. A young woman was set on fire on the Blue Line by a man with 72 prior arrests who was out on pretrial release for a detainable violent offense. A Chicago doctor was beaten in an elevator by yet another repeat offender who, according to court records, had been arrested a dozen times this year alone and was again on release when he attacked. These are not abstractions in a policy debate. They are the predictable outcomes of a public-s
