A mass exodus from Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's office is reaching new heights as internal frustrations grow over a perceived failure to curb Chicago's crime wave.
Foxx has come under intense scrutiny this year amid an unprecedented spike in resignations. Some say she attributes the mass exodus of senior staffers too heavily to COVID-19, even as other prosecutor's offices in the Chicago metropolitan region maintained their sizes or even expanded despite rising crime rates.
Two hundred thirty-five prosecutors have resigned since July 2021, the Chicago Tribune reported in July. That number looks likely to have grown significantly since then; Fox News found that three prosecutors resigned on the same day at some point in the last two weeks. The same month, a 25-year veteran of the second-largest prosecution office in the United States, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Jim Murphy, wrote a scathing resignation letter in which he said Foxx's light stance on crime was the reason for his departure.
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