Posted on 04/15/2019 1:14:47 PM PDT by PBRCat
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said she is still on track to begin wiping clean thousands of minor cannabis convictions in the coming months, but acknowledges that her office is still trying to determine how exactly to implement her bold plan.
She also said in an interview with the Sun-Times last week that her office was also taking a look at her office policy toward prosecuting those arrested for the sale of marijuana, but said the review was still in its early stages.
Foxx bemoaned the fact that her office continued to see people arrested on minor drug charges after former Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez announced in 2015 that prosecutors wouldn’t pursue them anymore.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Paradox: Why do all those who crusade against cigarette smoking fail to oppose marijuana smoking with equal vigor?
Well apparently hoax attacks are legal, so why not weed?
Tom Schuba....Now there is a real “pajama boy”....
Why has Foxx not been charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Why has Smell It not been charged with obvious lay down mail fraud by the feds? Where is William Barr?
Is the Chicago Sun-Times competing with the New York Times for the most leftist, liberal paper???
They better watch out for the WAPO and LATimes....
This is the least of it. Second City Cop is reporting that her office has not charged a single sex offender who has been arrested for failure to register.
“but acknowledges that her office is still trying to determine how exactly to implement her bold plan.”
What’s wrong with simply following the Just Smellit precedent?
She still has a job?
Well, looks like the Windy City got more corruption.
Imagine that....
Soros groups have infested a great portion of America’s AG races and WON most of them. The big push by these Soros surrogates is weed,sanctuary for illegals and social “justice”. It is a forgone conclusion that our major American cities are done for.
Second City blogspot has a story on sex offenders and Foxx that is outrageous
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/
To Budding Investigative Reporters
We know you guys and gals have forgotten how to do investigative reporting. Many of you haven’t done any actual reporting since graduating (Google doesn’t count and neither does reprinting press releases). Phil Rogers and Chuck Goudie are a little rusty, having been kept from doing actual political investigative work for much of the Shortshanks era - where do you think Sparklefarts learned it all?
But here’s an opportunity for you to shine, uncovering massive corruption and subverting the Rule of Law, costing taxpayers their safety and the safety of their children. One catch though:
you have to report on democrats.
In fact, on one particular democrat. But not to worry. She’s wounded. And her political supporters are leaving her unprotected. Here’s where you start:
In Illinois, when a person in ordered by the court to register as a sex offender and fails to do so, they can be charged with a Class 3 Felony (punishable by 2-5 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections) for a first time offense.
And here’s some info to get you started:
Sex offenders are required to register annually at their police department headquarters. The police department is required to verify the registration annually, via a house visit. Locally, this task is delegated to the Patrol Division and thousands of home visits are accomplished without incident.
But in something like 10% of the cases, no contact is made because sex offenders have died, been imprisoned, or moved without telling anyone. You can’t charge a dead sex offender and those in prison are accounted for, but hundreds of sex offenders are unaccounted for and are then the subject of Detective Division Investigative Alerts.
In Cook County, these Convicted Felons, when arrested, are not charged with the Class 3 Felony as required by law due to the actions of one person - Kim Foxx. Instead, Sex Offenders are told, “Go register” and released at approximately a 100% rate.
The rap sheets on some of these offenders are stomach churning. The addresses that some have moved to are what may accurately be called “hunting grounds” for their depredations. But Foxx and her “progressive” allies are all to willing to allow predators easy access to victims, including children, for their twisted agenda.
Now Go! Do some good! FOIA the number of sex offender registration violations and compare it to sex offenders doing actual time.
This is one comment on his blog. It will make you think twice before applauding so-called prison sentencing reform.
“”Restorative justice” at work. Once again.
The parole laws, also referred to euphemistically in Illinois as “mandatory supervised release” for you civilians following at home, is a swindle on Illinois citizens devised by the politicians they keep electing to convince naive voters than criminals are actually behind bars while they are serving prison sentences. Spoiler alert: many criminals serving prison terms for very serious offenses aren’t in prison at all. That’s right, although the Illinois Department of Corrections lists them on their website as prisoners, many criminals are released way before the end of their sentences.
For example. Mookie is charged with carjacking, kidnapping and attempt murder in Cook Co. Because Kim Foxxx is state’s attorney, charges are reduced to a Class 2 possession of controlled substance, because Mookie also had cocaine on him and the drug charge is the only way to make the reduced sentence work under the sentencing code. All other charges are dismissed. Mookie is sentence to 5 years DOC.
DOC puts Mookie in a minimum security prison because he’s only bee convicted of a drug charge. Mookie wants to get back on the street, so he takes classes and gets drug treatment in prison. After 9 months, DOC figures they can put him on work release, so they let him out. A few months later, Mookie gets put on MSR. 14 months into his 5 year sentence, Mookie’s back in the hood, working his day job again.
Clever readers will also understand that the 5 year drug sentence works to the advantage of the doper lobby who can use Mookie as a poster boy for “mass incarceration of non-violent drug offenders.”
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