Metro East Sun

State Sen. Jason Plummer (R-Maryville) condemned a new police reform bill that has passed both the House and the Senate and is heading to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk to be signed.

Plummer was against the bill, calling it a dangerous criminal justice proposal.

Plummer said the bill would endanger those in the law enforcement profession, according to Illinois Review.

Plummer said the bill was "a dangerous criminal justice proposal that would endanger our law enforcement personnel, families and communities while also essentially defunding the police,” Illinois Review reported.

Other Republicans also condemned the bill.

“Without hyperbole, [HB 3653] seems to all but mandate the immediate pretrial release of drug-dealers, arsonists, and drunk drivers irrespective of their likelihood of re-offending, the danger they pose generally to the public, or their willingness to comply with conditions of their release,” McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally said in a statement, Illinois Review reported. “That is absurd and out of step with the expectations that victims and Illinoisans have for their justice system.”

The bill passed with zero Republican votes.

Republican State Sen. Dave Syverson (R-Rockford) was also unhappy with the passage of the bill. Syverson said that it shouldn’t have been passed.

"January 13th at 3:30 a.m., after all the press had left the Capitol, the sponsors of this legislation dropped their 700-page bill and it was voted on one hour later at 4:30 a.m.,” Syverson said in a letter to his constituents, Illinois Review reported. “In addition, they changed the bill number before the vote to confuse the public, then they only allowed two Senators to ask questions. No matter how you look at it, it was wrong. No legislation should ever be passed without an open public process.”

Black Lives Matter-Chicago cheered the passage of the bill, calling it a historic win for the people in the state.