Posted on 12/26/2024 5:10:02 PM PST by PBRCat
CHICAGO — Shoplifters in Chicago are more than 100% more likely to be slapped with felony charges under Cook County’s new state’s attorney than they were under Kim Foxx’s administration.
Retired justice Eileen O’Neill Burke took office on December 2 and immediately followed through on her campaign promise to adhere to state law by pursuing felonies against people who shoplift merchandise worth more than $300. Foxx ordered prosecutors to withhold felony charges unless the value exceeded $1,000 or the accused shoplifter had ten or more previous convictions.
“The felony retail theft statute says that the value of goods has to be $300 or above to be a felony,” O’Neill Burke said during a February town hall covered by Nadig Newspapers. “You can clear out several aisles at Walgreens before you get to $1,000. The ramification of this policy is that retail stores have closed all over the city because of theft.”
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Excellent
Make it $250 next
5 bucks.
“Foxx ordered prosecutors to withhold felony charges unless the value exceeded $1,000 or the accused shoplifter had ten or more previous convictions.”
How in the world can you get to TEN OR MORE previous convictions if you can’t even get ONE conviction?
I saw yesterday that Biden is pumping a billion more dollars into “Defund the Police” organizations between now and the inauguration. I can’t find the article. (I think it was a billion dollars)
Heh - I’d say felony $100 or 3rd offense
But I definitely don’t like the shoplifting thieves
Lets negotiate! Nothing exceeds $800.00 and give them no more than 12 previous convictions. I'll submit this proposal to Thieves and Murderers local 187 union.
When felony theft first came out 110 years ago I believe it was $500. I guess they do not have inflation in Chicago or they need the felon charge to remove the guns.
How about you steal it’s a felony??
switched the laws back to enforcement just in time for Trump to be president so they can scream, crime is up under Trump!
Dunno who kim fox is but if he/she/it stayed in office 8 years, how disgraced was he/she/it? Do they have term limits in chicongo? Regardless, it looks like voters voted for that crap.
Heh
Well I think there’s some kind of line that is necessary
That being said, I could go on and on about retail thieves.....
There’s a LOT of them
Chicago shoplifters, wait until the day after Christmas sales to get that $300 TV for free.
I love it!
Kim Foxx was investigated for helping Jussie Smollett obtain a plea deal for staging a hate crime hoax.
In the Democrat Party slating session for the 2024 orimary, the party dumped her as being too toxic to stand for reelection.
Foxx ordered prosecutors to withhold felony charges unless the value exceeded $1,000.
If your on the take for small gifts they do add up and nobody will notice?.
Wow, that new dame is really tough on crime.
Now the scum will have to do 3 trips of shoplifting $299 at a time, instead of one trip to shoplift $899...
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