Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx praises elimination of cash bail in Illinois during Law School talk – Notre Dame Observer

“It is our hope in a place like Chicago, which has a national reputation, that we’ll be able to demonstrate that we’re able to do this without an increase in crime,” she said. “We are living in a time, if I’m being quite honest, in which conversations around race and justice are being suppressed across the country … and all of that permeates the work that we do in our criminal justice system."