Not if Kim Foxx, the non-prosecuting attorney for Cook County, has anything to say about it. Prosecutors decline charges in triple shooting that followed Chicago Pride Parade, also reject felony charges in triple stabbing - CWB Chicago
Last Monday, hours after three people were shot and three others stabbed in separate incidents following the Chicago Pride Parade, city officials offered glowing reviews of their performance.
Everyone responsible for the shootings and stabbings was in custody, they said.
“The next best thing to preventing it is holding the person accountable and making an arrest right away, which is what happened,” CPD Supt. David Brown told reporters Monday afternoon. Police also recovered a gun from the shooting, Brown said.
But keeping violent people in jail is unfair.
Kim Foxx, who is officially known as the Illinois State's Attorney for Cook County, refused to file any charges in the shooting, or her office refused to do so. No one is currently in custody.
While CPD issued a press release stating the woman involved in the stabbing incident had been charged with 3 felonies, they were wrong.
On Wednesday morning, they issued a correction. She had only been charged with misdemeanors.
And the people of Chicago wonder why they have a crime problem.
Obligatory reference to Hobbes' State of War, which exists after the breakdown of law and order. If I hadn't moved out of the People's Republic of Illinois decades ago, I would be doing so right now.
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