'THEIR LIVES WERE IN JEOPARDY': New Lenox Mayor Tim Baldermann believes the danger some Will County families faced back in March during a carjacking and police chase came straight from Cook County.
There, they brandished guns and carjacked a woman with two little kids, and tried to carjack a second mother of two."Their lives were in jeopardy because the criminal Justice system in Cook County fails all of us on a regular basis," said New Lenox Mayor Tim Baldermann.Baldermann let loose Wednesday, as New Lenox police announced arrest warrants for three of six carjacking suspects — all of them from Cook County and all of them with long, violent criminal records.
"The judicial system and the leadership out of the State’s Attorney’s office fails all of us regularly and quite often, especially out here in Will County. We are left to pick up that mess," said Baldermann."Over the last five years, almost exclusively every violent crime has been committed by someone with an extensive history in the Cook County criminal justice system," said Baldermann.
Baldermann believes we need to address root causes of crime, as well as jail overcrowding leading to early release and leniency in sentencing. As for the suspects in the carjacking, police say they're also connected to multiple car dealership burglaries. They expect more charges and hope for convictions that stick in Will County courts.that I have read and agree
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