Following Jussie Smollett, Suburban Police Chiefs Have No Confidence About Attorney General Kim Foxx

CHICAGO (WLS) – The three associations representing police chiefs in the Chicago suburbs have decided not to trust the Cook County State Attorney, Kim Foxx, learned from ABC7 I -Team.

Members of the North Suburban police chiefs, police chiefs from the southern suburbs and south of the southern suburbs have no confidence in Foxx since its controversial decision the week last to drop charges against television star Jussie Smollett.

Many police chiefs announced that they would wake up tomorrow morning with officials from the Chicago Police College to let them know that they did not trust Foxx.

On Wednesday evening, a spokesman for state attorney, Foxx, fought back in defiance of the confidence votes of the police, suggesting that the critics were impediments to public safety.

The storm on Foxx began when Cook County lawyer brutally dropped 16 counts against Empire actor Jussie Smollett, although prosecutors said the latter was guilty of having simulated a hate crime to support his televised career.

At present, the I-Team has obtained a "letter of censorship" from Foxx by police chiefs in the northern suburbs, tearing it apart as a result of the Smollett decision, and expressing deep concern about its leadership. from the Cook County Attorney's Office, specifically the areas of crime review, the non-prosecution of certain low-grade offenses and the handling of the recent Jussie Smollett case.

And it's not just the police chiefs in the northern suburbs. Team I has now confirmed that associations of police chiefs from the West and South have also passed censorship measures against Foxx, representing many police departments.

At 2:30 pm Thursday, at the FOP headquarters in Chicago, Cook County police chiefs are summoned to oppose the Attorney General of the United States for what they claim to be his mismanagement of some crime cases – and their confidence votes held after the Smollett case.

The letter from the head of the northern suburbs indicates what the three organizations say they have decided: it seems that Foxx's strategy to fight non-violent crimes in Cook County is to decriminalize or ignore them, regardless of the costs. indirectly supported by communities and their communities. police services.

The president of the South The association of suburban police chiefs told I-Team that their vote of censure did not constitute a lack of respect for hard-working state attorneys, but who are pursuing prosecution in the courts. He added that the "vote of censorship" directly targeted Kim Foxx's lack of leadership and loss of credibility in their communities.

In early Wednesday, state attorney Kim Foxx declined to comment on the dozens of police chiefs in the Chicago area. However, 90 minutes after the release of the I-Team report, the Foxx office responded with censorship votes by the police. "Unfortunately, it is an excuse to justify their resistance to the priority we place on our resources in order to increase public safety and reduce damage," said a Foxx spokesman. "Our state's attorneys are working tirelessly with our law enforcement partners to fight violence in our communities," she told I-Team on Wednesday night.