Foxx has faced intense criticism in her two terms in office, from her office's charging decisions, to her handling of high profile cases involving disgraced singer R. Kelly and actor Jussie Smollett.
Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx announced Tuesday she won't be running for re-election next year.
"I want to thank my detractors who are also here today, because it is because of you that I have learned to really dig into why; the why I do what I do," Foxx said. After taking office, she established a new threshold for prosecutors to seek felony charges in retail theft cases, and oversaw a mass expungement of low-level marijuana convictions ahead of the legalization of recreational marijuana in Illinois. She also was one of few state's attorneys in Illinois who supported a criminal justice reform law that aims to end cash bail across the state, but has been temporarily put on hold due to court challenges.
"Now I'm not suggesting – because that would be factually inaccurate – that anything that I have done would lead to violent crime going down, which is why I refute the supposition that where we see ourselves today, with a rise in violent crime that coincides with a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, is somehow the result of the Cook County State's Attorney's office. It just doesn't add up," she said.
At last check earlier this month, the office had 143 vacancies. That's about 18% of all assistant state's attorney positions that the office is budgeted for. Former assistant state's attorney Brian Sexton said morale is low and there's a lack of faith in office leaders."COVID obviously had a big thing to do with it," Sexton said.
One of those 2022 resignations was James Murphy, who in a scathing resignation email in July, after 25 years on the job, said staffing levels are at an all-time low and the office was"hemorrhaging talent."Sexton said the county needs to budget for more positions and the State's Attorney's Office needs to fill them.
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