Column: Controversial SAFE-T Act continues to spark angry debate – Champaign News-Gazette

Column: Controversial SAFE-T Act continues to spark angry debate – Champaign News-Gazette

Jim Dey: "That’s why this issue comes down to a political battle in Springfield, where Gov. JB Pritzker and members of the Legislative Black Caucus muscled the SAFE-T Act through the legislative process. Members of the Black caucus have indicated they will tolerate no substantive change in the current law, while Pritzker expressed interest in making only what he called 'tweaks' in the status quo. At the same time, superminority Republicans have …