Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Thursday, September 8, 2016.
Cook County public defender slams “war on guns”
Cook County public defender Amy P. Campanelli disapproves of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Department superintendent Eddie Johnson’s push for tougher gun laws and longer prison sentences for illegal gun possession. “Increasing minimum sentences will not stop violence; it will merely incarcerate one generation while another generation steps up and continues the violence,” she wrote in a Tribune op-ed. Putting offenders in prison for longer periods of time without addressing the root causes of the gun violence will only “demonize and incarcerate another generation of young African-American and Latino men,” she wrote. [DNAinfo Chicago] [Tribune]
