State police sweeps removing sex offenders and ex-convicts from nursing homes were halted in 2006 -- chicagotribune.com: "Amid reports that elderly and disabled residents were being assaulted and raped in nursing facilities, a state police unit in 2001 began raiding the homes to haul out unregistered sex offenders and ex-convicts with outstanding arrest warrants for crimes ranging from armed robbery to murder.
Elderly residents lined the corridors to applaud as Illinois State Police marched young thugs and sex offenders out of the nursing homes.
'Everybody was cheering,' former state police Sgt. Rick Klimes recalled.
'We would walk these felons out and the older people would be so glad that we were getting rid of them.'
From January 2005 through June 2006, when 20 northern Illinois nursing homes were swept and roughly 80 fugitives and sex offenders removed, state police in that area recorded a nearly 67 percent decrease in nursing home abuse and neglect complaints, according to a department citation issued to the sweeps unit."
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