The reason is that Foxx has been the darling of the Chicago media, elected after a concerted local and national progressive push to maintain the doomed narrative of rampant police misconduct and racism that has built the house of cards that is commonly referred to in the city as the Combine.
Read MoreThe Fraternal Order of Police has requested that federal authorities investigate Cook County Prosecutor Kimberly Foxx for her interference in the Jussie Smollett case and her role in several exonerations of convicted killers.
Read MoreRegardless of one’s opinion about the death penalty, the fact that Spanish Cobra gang member Alexander Villa is not eligible to be executed is a haunting sign of the damage the Chicago media has done to the criminal justice system.
Read MoreWhy is Foxx doing this? Why would she make decisions that could allow a Spanish Cobra to remain in the city when it is painfully clear that Spanish Cobras hold life, particularly the lives of police officers, in such little regard? Why would she vacate old convictions against a gang member anyway? How is that the function of a prosecutor?
Read MoreBut questions are now surfacing about the legitimacy of the investigation by the City that paved the way for criminal charges in the first place. What is emerging in this investigation is powerful evidence that the City violated the civil rights of the officers by sacrificing the officers to the media frenzy generated around the shooting. And one wonders, where was the General Counsel of the police department during this public-frenzy sacrifice of the officers?
Read MoreTwo FOP reps have asked the Illinois Attorney General to initiate a review of the recent decision by Cook County State’s Attorney Kimberly Foxx to vacate two felony convictions of a notorious gang leader.
Read MoreDid Cook County State’s Attorney Kimberly Foxx vacate two ancient felony drug convictions of a notorious street gang member who claims he was wrongfully convicted of murder so that he could escape incarceration and remain in the U.S.?
Read MoreIn response to what the Fraternal Order of Police claims is a pattern and practice of Cook County Prosecutor Kimberly Foxx refusing to enforce the law and protect Chicago Police officers, the FOP Lodge 7 announced today it will demand a special prosecutor in any case in which the Foxx administration drops or reduces charges in cases where officers are the victims.
Read MoreBut the full measure of Foxx’s transformation of the prosecutor’s office—an office she won in a bitter election after receiving plentiful campaign donations from Far Left activist billionaire George Soros—may be her bizarre and suspicious ties to certain Chicago law firms specializing in vilifying and suing police officers.
Read MoreIn yet another rebuke of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office under Kimberly Foxx, federal prosecutors announced yesterday three felony charges against a man who is accused of making social media threats to Jason Van Dyke and his family and calling for setting Navy Pier on fire and burning the offices of city aldermen.
Read MoreNot only did Stephenson find that McDonald was an armed assailant, but she rejected every claim by special prosecutor Patricia Brown Holmes that Detective David March, Officer Thomas Gaffney, and former officer Joseph Walsh conspired to cover up the shooting.
Read MoreAttorneys for a former Cook County circuit court judge voted off the bench in November are making dire though familiar allegations against the Chicago media: that the press are acting as advocates for certain Chicago law firms that regularly sue police and prosecutors on behalf of “wrongfully convicted” clients.
Read MoreBut this is Chicago, where no conviction is ever truly complete. Sure enough, Solache and Reyes were released earlier this year on the claim that they were coerced into confessing by a Chicago Police detective who worked the case, Ray Guevara.
Read MoreA former Cook County judge named as a defendant in a bombshell federal lawsuit alleging prosecutors and detectives framed an innocent man for a 1993 murder has filed a subpoena demanding records at Northwestern University.
Read MoreMore and more people are speaking out about charges leveled against an offender in the death of two police officers struck by a Metra train last week as they investigated shots fired by the offender.
Read MoreLast month, much of the media falsely reported a key finding in the disciplinary case against a Chicago Police officer accused of the unjustifiable fatal shootings of a bat-wielding offender and an innocent bystander in 2015. In a word, the media once again got the story all wrong.
Read MoreSo what, then, are the Tribune attorneys talking about? What is truly going on in the trial? Why did the Tribune and other media attorneys make a sudden, last-minute demand for records of the case as the trial was coming to a close?
Read MoreStrouse was killed in an area of a gang war being waged between the Ambrose and La Raza gangs. Witnesses said that Strouse announced he was the police, then was shot. Delgado, who was sixteen at the time, confessed to the crime, a confession that was recorded and played at his trial.
Read MoreThe unilateral policy is intended to compel prosecutors under Foxx to provide police officers equal protection under the law—rights, the FOP asserts, Foxx has refused to provide to police officers during her tenure as prosecutor.
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