A veteran Chicago prosecutor has left his job after 20 years but not before predicting it is 'on a course to disaster.'
Poje’s letter did not mention Foxx by name, it did have an oblique reference to “stupid State’s Attorney policies.”
Poje also set out his dismay at the changes to the city in his time there with his family, lamenting “”I will not raise my son here,” because of the sheer surge in the crime rate means nobody has anything to be proud of.@thehangrylilbrunette / LOCAL NEWS X /TMX He then added, “I am fortunate enough to have the means to escape, so my entire family is leaving the State of Illinois. I grew up here, my family and friends are here, and yet my own employer has turned it into a place from which I am no longer proud to be, and in which my son is not safe.”
Poje’s exit comes less than a year after another prosecutor, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Jim Murphy, departed in protest at Foxx’s leadership. “I wish I could stay,” he wrote in July 2022, according to Fox News. “However, I can no longer work for this Administration. I have zero confidence in leadership.”
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