Cook County prosecutor quits after 20 years: ‘this State and County have set themselves on a course to disaster’ – CWB Chicago

Wrote Jason Poje, a long-time felony trial attorney for the Cook County states attorney's office: "My partners, our Victim/Witness advocates, our Investigators, our support staff, the police officers and detectives, time after time I see each of you putting everything you have into helping people we encounter on the worst days of their lives...And yet, I’m leaving. Why could that be? The simple fact is that this State and County have set themselves on a course to disaster. And the worst part is that the agency for whom I work has backed literally every policy change that had the predicable, and predicted, outcome of more crime and more people getting hurt."