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JB Pritzker: “2.6% of the people who were detained in Illinois were people…”

Featuring: JB Pritzker, Democratic | Governor of Illinois

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JB Pritzker SLAMS Republicans for Caving to Trump

Published | Video Starts at 12:12

Right. If they're caught and they're, and they're being convicted, we ought to hold them in our prisons and they ought to be punished. But, but that's 2.6% of the people who were detained in Illinois were people who had committed a violent crime. 2.6%. I'm glad all of them were caught. But what about the other, you know, 97.4% of people that were, that were stopped. Right. (12:12–12:23)

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Asserts that 2.6% of detained individuals in Illinois committed violent crimes.

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