*A veteran Chicago prosecutor quit his job and blasted the city’s “stupid” leaders in a scathing letter on his way out.
Felony trial attorney Jason Poje quit at the end of April due to the city’s lawlessness under democratic leadership. In his exit letter to 85 colleagues, Poje slams the city for following a “popular political agenda” that has seen crime soar in Chicago, Daily Mail reports. In the letter, he criticizes bond reform and warns that Chicago is “on a course to disaster”
“The simple fact is that this State and County have set themselves on a course to disaster. And the worst part is that the agency for whom I work has backed literally every policy change that had the predicable, and predicted, outcome of more crime and more people getting hurt,” Poje wrote, referring to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx.
“Bond reform designed to make sure no one stays in jail while their cases are pending with no safety net to handle more criminals on the streets, shorter parole periods, lower sentences for repeat offenders, the malicious and unnecessary prosecution of law enforcement officers, overuse of diversion programs, intentionally not pursuing prosecutions for crimes lawfully on the books after being passed by our legislature and signed by a governor, all of these so-called reforms have had a direct negative impact, with consequences that will last for a generation,” Poje continued.
According to the Daily Mail, Poje’s letter does not mention Foxx by name, but it did reference “stupid State’s Attorney policies.”
Poje also makes clear he is leaving Chicago for his family’s safety.
“Many years ago my family found a nice quiet corner of the suburbs. Now my son, who is only 5, hears gunfire while playing at our neighborhood park, and a drug dealer is open-air selling behind my house (the second one in two years),” Poje wrote.
“I will not raise my son here. 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,” he added.
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