Right now, about 100 people charged with murder in Cook County are not behind bars, but rather on home electronic monitoring. They are confined only by a GPS bracelet around their ankle, according to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.
After an armed standoff in the street, Chicago Police shot and killedWhite faced more than a dozen counts of aggravated sexual assault, according to police.at a West Side McDonald’s in April of last year was out on electronic monitoring, or EM.But Dart, whose department is responsible keeping tabs on those court ordered to electronic monitoring, said the majority of 2,600 or so defendants currently assigned to him are facing violent crimes.
The sheriff said the Chief Judge’s office also runs a monitoring program, but the number of defendants enrolled in that program is a mystery to Dart.
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