CORRECTION: Regarding EAGLE SWAT Team

Agitation Rising previously reported that the Bloomington City Council would have to approve the EAGLE intergovernmental agreement between the McLean County Deputies Office and the Bloomington Police Department (BPD). This is not the case. The EAGLE agreement requires each agency funds its own equipment and training. Funding for BPD’s SWAT team has already been appropriated by the Bloomington City Council, and the agreement would not require additional funding for BPD.

Agitation Rising also implied that Task Force 6 had its own separate SWAT team. This is untrue. Task Force 6 relies on the SWAT teams of its constituent members.

These errors have been corrected.

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Notes On McLean County Jail Part 13

Stats from the McLean County Jail, accurate as of March 21st, 2023:

Jail population: 216

Proportions by gender:
are female: 35 (16%)
are male: 181 (84%)

Proportions by race:
Black: 110 (50%)
Other Minority: 13 (6%)
Persons of a Colonial Complexion: 96 (44%)

Number of people over 50: 25 (12%)
Number of people sentenced: 13 (6%)
Number of people pretrial (felony): 186 (86%)
Number of people pretrial (misdemeanors): 8 (4%)
Number of people pretrial for drug offenses: 67 (31%)
Number of out of county residences: 68 (31%)
Number of people prescribed mental health medication: 65 (30%)

Average Population Data between December 1st, 2022-March 21st, 2023

Average Population
213
Highest PopulationLowest Population
237 (2/12/2023 & 2/17/2023)173 (12/23/2022)
Average charged with drug offenseAverage Age over 50
56 (26%)27 (13%)
Total ArrivalsTotal Releases
12981216

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What Makes A Law Lawful?

So-called sovereign citizens, like the Waukesha Parade attacker Darrell Brooks, frequently ask very silly questions during court proceedings. For instance, “Is that a lawful law?” a statement which, judicially, is meaningless. But, philosophically, it’s worth asking what makes a law lawful? A law is only lawful if it can be enforced. Walter Benjamin astutely pointed out how the use of violence is the means by which the law achieves its ends.

Citation:

Benjamin, Walter. “Critique of Violence”.

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Beware the Vicious Sharon Chung

BEWARE THE VICIOUS SHARON CHUNG!

Several McLean County Republicans, like Sheriff Jon Sandage and District 10 County Board member Chuck Erickson, claim District 7 Board Member Sharon Chung repeatedly, viciously, and with extreme malice attacks the Sheriff every chance she gets. Agitation Rising investigates these claims only to discover the SHOCKING truth!


Video originally posted on District 8 Board Member Shayna Watchinski’s Facebook Page.

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Who Should Respond to Mental Health Crisis?

Interviews About Police Response to Mental Health Crisis

Today we continue our series of interviews regarding mental health and the types of first responses available to those in crisis. We interview another person who has a mental, behavioral, or developmental disability about their symptoms, their experiences with police when they were suffering a crisis, and whether they support a police response to mental/behavioral/developmental crisis.

Just as a reminder, in Illinois, a law called the Community Emergency Services & Support Act, or CESSA, requires that all mental/behavioral/developmental emergency calls for service that are nonviolent & noncriminal are responded to by alternative first responders (this is a non-police model).

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Interviews About Police Response to Mental Health Crisis

We interview two people who have mental, behavioral, or developmental disabilities about their symptoms, their experiences with police when they were suffering a crisis, and whether they support a police response to mental/behavioral/developmental crisis.

Just as a reminder, in Illinois, a law called the Community Emergency Services & Support Act, or CESSA, requires that all mental/behavioral/developmental emergency calls for service that are nonviolent & noncriminal are responded to by alternative first responders (this is a non-police model).

Learn more about CESSA.

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