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  "path": "/springfield/2026/04/30/republicans-talley-police-shooting-swedish-hospital-cashless-bail-law-pretrial-release",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-30T23:59:30.238Z",
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  "textContent": "<p>SPRINGFIELD — Republican lawmakers in Springfield are calling for amendments to the SAFE-T act in the wake of the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer, allegedly by a man who had been granted pretrial release by a Chicago judge.</p><p>Alphanso Talley is accused of shooting two police officers at Swedish Hospital in Chicago. John Bartholomew, 38, was killed. A second officer was critically wounded.</p><p>Republicans have long pushed for amendments to the SAFE-T act, which abolished cash bail to give judges discretion over pre-trial release based on the flight risk posed by the accused person. House Minority Leader Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, said “this law is not working the way Democrats promised.”</p><p>Talley had a multi-year rap sheet and was awaiting trial for multiple violent charges. He was granted pre-trial release with an ankle monitor by Judge John Lyke.</p><p>Saturday, prosecutors allege, he robbed a dollar store, was captured, then taken to Swedish Hospital, where the officers were shot. </p><p>McCombie and Senate Republican Leader John Curran (R-Downers Grove) teamed up Wednesday to push bills amending the SAFE-T Act. The proposed legislation would revoke an individual's eligibility for pre-trial release if they commit another, similar crime while awaiting trial under electronic monitoring.</p><p>“Pre-trial release is a second chance,\" said Curran. \"It is not a third, or fourth, or twelfth chance.”</p><p>Curran responded saying the SAFE-T act’s laws are too lenient and leave too much space for a judge to make a poor decision.</p><p>“In this instance, the judge would not have even been able to make that decision had we never passed the SAFE-T act,” Curran said.</p><p>Having missed multiple key deadlines in Springfield, the bills proposed by Curran and McCombie face a tough path to passage before the legislature wraps up in May.</p>",
  "title": "Republican legislators call for SAFE-T act amendments following Swedish Hospital shooting",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-01T00:03:40.133Z"
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