When you first spoke earlier that statement resonated with me because you used the term “judges”...having the opportunity to make that decision on ankle monitors and so on.
Unfortunately, many of our victims don't make it to that point where these offenders are getting to the judges. If it's going to come in, as was just mentioned about making amendments to this bill, where these violent acts are being charged, then the ankle monitor doesn't have to go to a judge. It can be done at the police station with their lawyers in hand. Let's not let them walk out of these situations or put them...and wait until they get on bail. Let's keep them.
We're waiting for a judge to make a decision that, in my family's situation, was scheduled to be over three months later. No, let's bring this back. It should be happening at the very beginning.
When I say ankle monitors and things of that nature, unless you're going to put them in court the next morning, which we know is not going to happen, let's put this into law. You are a violent offender. This is what we do to violent offenders immediately.
That's my statement on that.