CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Some critics in law enforcement and politics have accused Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx of caring more about the rights of the accused than victims. She rejected that, and seemed to take such verbal jabs in stride.
Foxx said when someone’s unjustly convicted, like in the cases now vacated involving disgraced ex-Chicago Detective Reynaldo Guevara, righting the wrongs restores public trust in the justice system. So, she’s unfazed by the criticisms, similar to what other progressive prosecutors are facing around the country.
“This isn’t new. It doesn’t change the mandate that I got to do this work, to seek justice on behalf of the people of Cook County, to do this work with integrity, and to do this work knowing that it is for the people who live here, not soundbites, not politics,” Foxx said.
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She did note that, politically, she’s been re-elected twice.
Foxx also dismissed critics who blame her for an exodus of prosecutors from her office. She note's it's a nationwide phenomenon. While one high-profile former prosecutor has publicly criticized Kim Foxx’s leadership, she rejected the suggestions that she is why a number of Assistant State’s Attorneys are leaving. In fact, she said, prosecutors around the country are facing the same thing.
“Twenty percent of the prosecutors in the New York prosecutors office have left. I also shared with many in this room the numbers that were coming out of Baltimore, Los Angeles, Albuquerque,” she said.
The problem she said is the pressure of working cases in the receding days of COVID-19. She said the Assistant State’s Attorneys are under a tremendous amount of pressure.
“The diligent, hard-working men and women of this office has put this criminal justice system on their back for the course of the last two years during this pandemic so that those cases don’t fall,” Foxx said.
And, Foxx said there are people coming to work there too.
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