Frustration among employees of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx over the high crime rate and lack of enforcement has led to a mass exodus that threatens the stability of her office.
The number of resignations has been unprecedented. At first, Foxx tried to pin the exodus on the pandemic. But when other local prosecutors in neighboring counties didn’t experience anything like the wave of resignations seen in Cook County, Foxx’s mismanagement was laid bare for all to see.
“Foxx’s implemented policies that have made Chicago less safe, that have made people feel unsafe and emboldened criminals, and created this new level of in seeing brazenness among criminals that was unimaginable prior to her … tenure,” former Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Dan Kirk told Fox News. “But I also think that her term in office of state’s attorney has been an abysmal failure from the perspective of what it’s done to the state attorney’s office in recent years.”
Mr. Kirk is a supporter of Ms. Foxx but is enough of a realist to speak the truth.
“I hear it every day. … I still know of hundreds of people in office,
and I only hear one unanimous message from them, which is that morale
has never been lower in the office,” the former ASA continued. “If they
don’t respect the administration, they don’t believe that the
administration puts victims first. They believe that the administration
puts politics and PR first above victims.”.............It’s a criminal’s dream come true. And it’s only going to get worse.............To Read More...
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