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Cook County Christmas shopping, Kim Foxx style

When state’s attorney Kim Foxx announced no prosecution for shoplifting under a thousand dollars, the results were fully predictable. Chicago and Cook County, Illinois are leading the headlong American rush toward lawlessness and the loss of civil order. The election of Kim Foxx as Cook County State’s Attorney, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in backing by George Soros, has been a further disaster. Not just the scandalously lenient treatment of Jussie Smollett after convulsing Chicago and the entire country with a fake hat crime caper, but the virtual abolition of laws against felony shoplifting under one thousand dollars:

A month into her term, Foxx announced her office would stop prosecuting shoplifting as a felony if the stolen goods were worth less than $1,000, a threshold three times higher than under the current state law.

The results are absolutely predictable:  […]

 

Read the full story from The American Thinker


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