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“We’re so short of attorneys, there’s twice as much work with no help,” one longtime prosecutor not authorized to speak publicly told the Tribune. “And really, you’re setting people up for failure. Anything can blow up in your face. The expectations are not manageable.” State’s Attorney Kim Foxx told officials at a county board committee hearing last week that 235 people including attorneys had resigned from her office just since July of last year. The year before the pandemic began, that figure was 130.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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The fattest rats smell the water first!
Hey Trib! It’s not a morale problem! It’s a morals problem! Even some lawyers have a conscience!
The SA’s office has traditionally been a diverse employer hiring law school grads from third and fourth tier law schools. However, the legal job market has improved significantly for attorneys in the past few years due to retirements and fewer law school graduates. Further, the racial reckoning has forced employers to institute DIE hiring policies (likely in violation of federal equal opportunity employment laws) and law firms/employers are all competing for the same pool of attorneys that are not straight white guys. I’ve heard stories of applicants using their intersectional identity as current in the marketplace forcing law firms to… Read more »
Seems like you don’t need too many prosecutors when all you do is let criminals go. I guess it might take some work to make a violent crime appear to be like jaywalking.
It’s also supposedly a chaotic environment, a raging dumpster fire. Which is not unsurprising, everything progressive tends to degrade into a completely destructive mess. Kim Foxx is an ideologue, she’s not concerning with the day to day affairs of running a prosecutor’s office. She wants to impose her insane policies from the top down and when her ideas conflict with actual day to day administration of the job, chaos ensures. On top of this, her resume is unimpressive.
If you work there you have to deny reality all day long.
I still love how Foxx lives in tiny, crime free Flossmoor, surrounded by golf courses instead of ghettos.
Marilyn Mosby in Baltimore follows policies similar to Foxx’s, and just lost the primary for Baltimore States Attorney. Mosby’s office had terrific attrition problems, likely reflecting both policy matters and competence, the latter likely even more significant than policy. Parallels to Foxx. Mosby has been indicted by the feds (Biden controlled) for offenses which frankly are minor by Baltimore or Cook County corruption standards (not excusing Mosby but really, a federal criminal case over taking money (her own) out of a 401k claiming she needed it for COVID and for indicating a vacation home was her primary residence on a… Read more »
Nobody wants to be the last rat off that sinking ship. Lil Kim’s office has played a significant role in the deterioration of Chicago to the point where saving it is in doubt. Progressives have destroyed the city.
Wonder why Kimm???