Chicago Prosecutor Kim Foxx Has Dropped 25,183 Felony Cases

[Cathoholic]

Paper: Chicago Prosecutor Kim Foxx Has Dropped 25,183 Felony Cases​

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JOSHUA CAPLAN

10 Aug 2020

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has dropped over 25,000 felony cases, including charges of murder and the alleged hate crime hoax from former Empire star Jussie Smollett, according to an analysis released by the Chicago Tribune on Monday.

The Chicago Tribune reported:

During Foxx’s first three years as the county’s top prosecutor, her office dropped all charges against 29.9% of felony defendants, a dramatic increase over her predecessor, the Tribune found. For the last three years of Anita Alvarez’s tenure, the rate was 19.4%.

In all, a total of 25,183 people had their felony cases dismissed under Foxx through November 2019, up from 18,694 for a similar period under Alvarez.

[…]

For the three-year period analyzed, Foxx’s office dropped 8.1% of homicide cases, compared with 5.3% under Alvarez, the Tribune found. Under Foxx, the office dropped 9.5% of felony sex crime cases; the rate was 6.5% for Alvarez.

In a statement to the Tribune , Foxx, who is up for reelection in November . . .

Paper: Chicago Prosecutor Kim Foxx Has Dropped 25,183 Felony Cases

 

[Anesti33]

So imma go there and ask: did the dropped cases pertain to any particular race, sex, or other protected class of people? It would be an interesting analysis to perform.

 

[Cathoholic]

Special Prosecutor: Kim Foxx’s Office Committed ‘Substantial Abuses of Discretion’ in Jussie Smollett Case​

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WARNER TODD HUSTON

17 Aug 2020

The special prosecutor investigating how Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx carried out the Jussie Smollett hate hoax investigation has found “substantial abuses of discretion” in Foxx’s actions.

Early in 2019, the former Empire star claimed that he was attacked by MAGA hat-wearing racists who beat him and poured bleach on him in downtown Chicago in the dead of night during below zero weather. But a Chicago police investigation claimed that Smollett invented the attack. Smollett was arrested and charged with the fraud. But Cook County Prosecutor Kim Foxx quickly dismissed the case and released Smollett, dropping the charges.

Foxx’s rush to release Smollett sparked a special investigation into her actions, led by Dan Webb, who began investigating the case. Webb found a number of transgressions committed by Foxx and her office. While Webb demurred in finding that Foxx broke any laws during her involvement in the case, he still noted that many of her actions were dubious, at best, and unethical at worst, according to the Chicago Sun-Times .

In one instance, Webb found that Foxx lied about ceasing her communications with Smollett after it became known that the Chicago Police Department was looking to charge him with a crime.

Indeed, Webb discovered records proving that Foxx continued to discuss Smollett’s case with his actress sister, Jurnee Smollett, up to eight times after she publicly claimed she was no longer in contact with the Smolletts.

“State’s Attorney Foxx learned by February 8, 2019, that Mr. Smollett had become a suspect in CPD’s investigation, yet she continued communicating with Ms. Smollett through February 13, 2019, including via five text messages and three phone calls. State’s Attorney Foxx then made false statements to the media claiming she ceased all communications with Ms. Smollett as soon as she learned that Mr. Smollett was a suspect in CPD’s investigation . . .

Special Prosecutor: Kim Foxx's Office Committed 'Substantial Abuses of Discretion' in Jussie Smollett Case

 

[Nepperhan]

So what’s your view on these situations? I just see Breitbart reprints. Does anyone have an opinion on all this?

 

[Trader]

Prosecutors are only supposed to proceed with cases they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Maybe she is just a really bad prosecutor. With all the video of rioters and looters available today, she must be a really bad prosecutor. Apparently, the people of Cook County like it that way now. .

When I lived in Illinois before 1984, the Cook County prosecutor’s office was still competitive. We would get four years of a Democrat prosecuting the Republican crooks, and then four years of a Republican prosecuting the Democrat crooks. Really serious criminals were prosecuted by both, and no one gave a second thought about which party the prosecutor of Richard Speck or John Wayne Gacy was.

 

[ThinkingSapien]

I can’t say there has been enough information presented for me to have an opinion. A breakdown of why cases were dismissed or files were dropped would be more informative. If there simply is not enough I formation to move forward with prosecution then dropping a case would be reasonable. But that type of insight isn’t provided here.

 

[Nepperhan]

I can’t say there has been enough information presented for me to have an opinion. A breakdown of why cases were dismissed or files were dropped would be more informative. If there simply is not enough I formation to move forward with prosecution then dropping a case would be reasonable. But that type of insight isn’t provided here.

That’s exactly the lack I see in the OP. We have screaming headlines to what purpose? Is the number of felonies dropped a big number? What conclusions should be drawn?

 

[Cathoholic]

Nepperhan . . .

So what’s your view on these situations? I just see Breitbart reprints. Does anyone have an opinion on all this?

I don’t know enough about “these situations” but I do know enough about the Jussie situation to know this was wrong.

And I have posted about the Jussue situation many times.

This added information just reenforces that.

How bout you? What do you think?

 

[Nepperhan]

How bout you? What do you think?

I think that Breitbart doesn’t know a thing about Chicago.

 

[RidgeSprinter]

There is just no scholarship here. no data, no dice, no cigar.

 

[Theo520]

There is just no scholarship here. no data, no dice, no cigar.

The numbers were explicitly stated in the OP, and compared with the prior office holder.

I’d ask if you are ‘number blind’, but it isn’t a real affliction

 

[Cathoholic]

Nepperhan asked me about Kim Foxx and the excessive dropping of felony charges (the thread topic).

I gave a reasonable reply directed at the topic. . . .

I don’t know enough about “these situations” but I do know enough about the Jussie situation to know this was wrong.

I asked Nepperhan about Kim Foxx and the excessive dropping of felony charges the thread topic).

I got this . . .

I think that Breitbart doesn’t know a thing about Chicago.

 

[1cthlctrth]

It has to be stated: Kim Foxx is another Democrat, and this is another reason crime spirals out of control in Chicago: no consequences. And this hurts the poor in the long run when they are not protected with execution of the law.