Hey Look!

Felony shoplifting is a thing again:

• Shoplifters in Chicago are being slapped with felony charges 154% more often under Cook County’s new state’s attorney than they were under Kim Foxx’s administration.

  Retired justice Eileen O’Neill Burke took office on December 2 and immediately followed through on her campaign promise to adhere to state law by pursuing felonies against people who shoplift merchandise worth more than $300. Foxx ordered prosecutors to withhold felony charges unless the value exceeded $1,000 or the accused shoplifter had ten or more previous convictions.

  Three weeks into O’Neill Burke’s administration, the results of the rule change are already apparent.

As we said for years, Crimesha had ZERO authority to alter State Law, raising the threshold for felony charges. In fact, O'Neill Burke is saying some thing that sound eerily familiar:

• “The felony retail theft statute says that the value of goods has to be $300 or above to be a felony,” O’Neill Burke said during a February town hall covered by Nadig Newspapers. “You can clear out several aisles at Walgreens before you get to $1,000. The ramification of this policy is that retail stores have closed all over the city because of theft.”

How many retail establishments shrank their city/county footprint because of the flagrant and constant thefts? That affects the tax base that funds much of government, basic Econ 101. But Crimesha was put into place to destroy the city tax base and insist anyone who complained must be racist.