Longtime Chicago prosecutor Jason Poje quits over crime surge, leaders’ woke ‘social experiment’

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Longtime Chicago prosecutor Jason Poje quits over crime surge, leaders’ woke ‘social experiment’
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“I’ve been through enough stupid State’s Attorney policies before. But this Office’s complete failure to even think for a moment before rushing into one popular political agenda a…

A fed-up veteran Chicago prosecutor quit his job and has pledged to leave the state after writing a scathing letter that ripped “stupid” officials for following a “popular political agenda,” that has led to a surge in violent crime.

“I’ve been through enough stupid State’s Attorney policies before. But this Office’s complete failure to even think for a moment before rushing into one popular political agenda after another has put my family directly in harm’s way,” he wrote. In his letter, Poje said blasted recent reforms as following “popular political agenda” that have made the city more dangerous.Poje said that the reforms have unfairly tipped the scale of justice in favor of criminals and their defense attorneys.

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