Oak Park
Recent News About Oak Park
-
Oak Park trustee prefers Illinois 'enforce the laws we have' rather than label attacks on police 'hate crime'
Oak Park Village Trustee (R) Jim Dodge favors substance over style in the push to make police officers feel safer on the job.“I could see the appeal of calling it a hate crime, but what I would rather see is aggressively enforcing existing law when someone attacks an officer doing duty,” Dodge said of a proposal now floating around Springfield that would make an attack on a police officer a Class 3 felony hate crime.