Episode 16: A Conversation with Kim Foxx
Justice In America
The Appeal
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Today we are talking to Kim Foxx, the head prosecutor of Cook County in Illinois. Cook County, which includes 135 separate municipalities including Chicago, is the second largest county in America, and has a population bigger than 28 states.
State’s Attorney Foxx was elected in 2016. She replaced Anita Alvarez, who had, to put it lightly, a disappointing record on criminal justice reform. Foxx’s election was a major victory for the criminal justice reform movement, and for progressive and racial justice organizers in Chicago. She is the first black woman to run the prosecutor’s office in Cook County.
She is joining us today to discuss her past two years as state’s attorney—what’s been successful, what has been challenging, what obstacles she’s faced and how this job has changed her perspective on criminal justice reform.
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| 0:00.0 | The defendants who we have in our courtroom, a good majority of them have also been victims of violent crime. |
| 0:14.7 | We're talking about the same people and our affection for victims in the prosecutor's |
| 0:20.8 | space is this false affection because next week they might be our |
| 0:25.8 | defendants and if we don't recognize that tension and recognize how they got |
| 0:32.0 | there in the first place and recognize how they got there in the first place. |
| 0:33.0 | And recognize the failing schools, |
| 0:36.0 | concentrated poverty, all of the risk factors are what |
| 0:40.0 | perpetuate this cycle and only look for the solution in the responders, we will always |
| 0:46.8 | fail. |
| 0:47.8 | Hi everyone. I'm Josie Duffy Rice and this is Justice in America. Each show |
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| 1:17.0 | So at the beginning of the episode you heard a clip from our guest for today, |
| 1:21.0 | Kim Fox, she's a state's attorney for Cook County, Illinois. |
| 1:24.4 | State's attorney is just Illinois way of saying district attorney or head |
| 1:28.2 | prosecutor. Kim Fox is the head prosecutor for Cook County, which includes 135 separate municipalities, including |
| 1:36.0 | Chicago. |
| 1:37.0 | It's the second largest county in America, and it has a population bigger than 28 states. |
| 1:42.8 | So she has a lot on her plate. |
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