Despite two years of surging violence, Cook County must continue criminal justice reform rather than revert to policy solutions based in fear of crime, State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said during a “state of the State’s Attorney’s Office” address at the Union League Club on Friday.
Foxx, whose office has been the frequent target of barbed comments from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and police officials who blame lenient sentencing and reduced bail amounts for a murder rate that hasnearly doubled since 2019, recalled her youth in the Cabrini-Green public housing project during the 1970s and ‘80s.
