Kim Foxx’s proposal to refuse to prosecute gun crimes if discovered pursuant to minor-violation traffic stops is a terrible idea — and inappropriate.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is seen during a news conference at the City of Chicago Public Safety Headquarters on May 3, 2024. Timothy McVeigh, otherwise known as the Oklahoma City bomber, was apprehended many miles away from his heinous crime by a police officer who had merely noticed a yellow Mercury was missing its registration tag. As he approached the driver, the officer noticed the bulge of a weapon under McVeigh’s jacket.
Anyone even passingly familiar with the prevalence of drive-by shootings knows that a gun in a glove box is a gun that might well be the weapon in a pending violent crime. If officers are effectively prohibited from looking for these weapons, more people will die. It’s that simple. But that’s a police matter, subject to the nuance of different situations and case-by-case decisions, and it should not be subject to some will-not-prosecute edict from the Cook County state’s attorney. In fact, police Superintendent Larry Snelling has publicly said more than once that the department is de-emphasizing pre-textual traffic stops. Foxx’s move amounts to highly inappropriate meddling in policing by an official elected ostensibly to prosecute crimes, not catch the criminals.
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