Restraining orders in Chicago. How serious are they? (Viola: buy, live)

[marukai]

As the title states,

I'm questioning how restraining orders are enforced in Chicago. It seems the police here are a joke. Sheriff's are truly the only qualified law enforcement within the city, because they are far more versed with laws than the general police.

I've opted to go to get a restraining order on a crazy roommate that has zero rational thought process.

[starlitwanderer]

Umm...how the hell are you going to have a restraining order on someone you live with? Move out.

[coldwine]

Restraining orders in Chicago mean exactly the same thing they mean everywhere else: jack ****.

The police will watch the man strangle you to death before the justice system gives two ****s about a restraining order. They use those as an excuse to dead-end any further "need" for prosecution (unless you're a minority.)

You file a restraining order not because you expect the police to do ****. Not because you expect the justice system to suddenly deliver justice. You file one and then you use the entire bureaucratic system to your advantage, every single step of the way, to build the legal groundwork for the inevitable court case.

Restraining orders in and of themselves are not worth much. You use them because you are documenting, processing, and parsing all the evidence you need to establish charges based on repeat, demonstrated behavior for your own safety after the justice system has allowed at least two murder attempts on your life.

You want proof? They still let domestic abusers buy guns. They don't inform women, victims with legal cases that sent offenders to prison, of the criminal's release.

This is me, telling you, this is the evidence of what the system values.

[Mathguy]

Violating a restraining order is just one more charge Kim Foxx drops before plea bargaining your attacker down to a vastly lesser charge.