Posted on 07/08/2024 8:45:28 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
CHICAGO — With the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system soon to be removed from Chicago’s streets, so-called “reform” activists are turning their attention to another tool police find useful: traffic stops.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said in May that her office is developing a policy not to prosecute gun, theft, and drug charges stemming from certain traffic stops. Foxx said her staff would refuse to file charges in most cases if evidence was found during a traffic stop for missing license plates, expired registrations, and other minor infractions. She called the anticipated change “a public safety enhancement effort.”
“Armed with data, armed with the knowledge that these stops have not significantly or in any way reduced violence in our city, [my office] decided that it was time to look at this issue and see if we could model a best practice that we’ve seen in other jurisdictions,” Foxx told the Sun-Times.
One person who thinks Foxx is on the wrong road with her traffic stop idea is retired Riverside Police Chief Tom Weitzel.
“I have stated my entire career that if you want to change the law, then go to Springfield and lobby for an actual change in the criminal statutes,” Weitzel said. “She is just trying to use her ‘prosecutorial discretion.’ It is like the President of the United States using executive orders to get around passing legislation through Congress.”
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Hollywood’s Wild West will be real soon
Elect insane people, get insane results!
Actually I think the wild west was safer.
She called the anticipated change “a public safety enhancement effort.”
And their response to more crimes committed with guns is to crack down on legal gun ownership.
Best remove Foxxy before he completely destroys Chicago.
I wonder how long before normal citizens start taking things into their own hands. It’s bound to happen.
“Armed with data, armed with the knowledge that these stops have not significantly or in any way reduced violence in our city”
And she provides zero data to back up her Bullcrap. But. Let Chicongo burn. They voted her in. Every cop should quit. Why risk anything to protect that s hole.
“””Foxx said her staff would refuse to file charges in most cases if evidence was found during a traffic stop for missing license plates, expired registrations, and other minor infractions. She called the anticipated change “a public safety enhancement effort.””””
Foxx must be an economist.
1. The Drug Runners will be able to remain fully employed and thus make Biden’s unemployment numbers look good.
2. There will be fewer Drug Runners put in jail and that will save money for the taxpayers.
3. The crime stats for Chicago will look fabulous and that will encourage people to vacation in Chicago and spend money at Chicago bars and restaurants.
Only 10-12 years ago I was, once in a while on the Sheecahgoh South Side, at the south end of Stony Island road, across the street from Deadstick Pond, sleeping overnight in my semi. I was waiting for a morning backhaul load to take back out of there to Bettendorf,IA.
I’m very glad I don’t go anywhere near there anymore.
‘Reformer Activists’ = lowlife, dirtbag, hate-America, leftists, commies, liberals, socialists, progressives, Marxists, fascists, anarchists etc.
Pair this with the ruling that illegals have 2A rights.
Her abuse of “prosecutorial discretion” is an open violation of due process and equal protection, as is also the case for other Soros prosecutors.
How do people so stupid end up in p[ublic office?
Many criminal cases are solved becase of a traffic stop.
The most outstanding example I can think of at the moment, although there are many others, is the traffic stop of the Oklahoma BOMBER, Timothy McVeigh.
Cops making a traffic stop have uncovered everything from narcotics to dead bodies in the back seat.
Many crimes are solved by accident, not by Sherlock Holmes.
The Left is using black women to destroy this country
Just don’t throw a Big Gulp at her, that’s a felony!
Traffic stops will load up your jails instantly. Outstanding warrants, back child support, weapons offenses, etc... and that’s contrary to the new Darwinian justice plan.
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