KIM FOXX in her own words:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/htlrls9jyikw61c/Kim%20Foxx%20Remarks%202-25-20.mov?dl=0
The people who want to keep talking about Jussie Smollett want to distract you from what’s actually going on: States Attorney Kim Foxx’s strong record of safety and criminal justice reform, her systematic work to separate serious crime that harms our community from nuisance and nonsense.
When you strip away Jussie Smollett’s notoriety as an up-and-coming celebrity, he was simply a first-time, non-violent offender, and this case was handled exactly the same way other first-time, low-level offender cases are handled. He forfeited a $10,000 bond and did community service. He didn’t “get away with it.”
During the time that Jussie Smollett headlines first swept the local and national media, the State’s Attorney’s Office took 10 murder trials to trial that resulted in verdicts of guilty.
In this—her first term in office—State’s Attorney Foxx has:
Led the nation in reversing the impact of the failed war on drugs by expunging over 1,000 low-level marijuana offenses with more to come…
Reduced the incarceration rate in Cook County by nearly 20% and diverted individuals to alternative treatment programs in record numbers…
Built a national model for conviction integrity, restoring public trust and vacating over 90 wrongful convictions…
Overseen a drop in violent crime and an increase in the conviction rate for violent offenses…
Built the most transparent prosecutor’s office in the country, providing unprecedented public access to how cases are handled by her office…
Transformed Cook County into a national model for fair and equitable bail reform…
The national criminal justice movement is on the line—if Foxx loses, criminal justice reform will be set back for a decade or more in Cook County and Illinois, and it will suffer nationally as well. Your vote matters to our future a lot more than Jussie Smollett matters to anything.
And, you can read more:
Chicago Reader: Why We Can’t Abandon Kim Foxx by Jane Sacks & Emma Ruby-Sachs
Chicago Sun-Times: Kim Foxx’s critics waste too much time on Jussie Smollett by Laura Washington
Chicago Tribune: Controversy in Jussie Smollett case illustrates divide along racial, class lines over Kim Foxx’s criminal justice reform efforts in Cook County by Lolly Bowean and Gregory Pratt
Bill Ayers 