A 20-year veteran Chicago prosecutor quit his job and wrote a blistering letter to his colleagues on his way out Friday, blasting the city's 'stupid' leaders and declaring they set the city 'on a course to disaster.'
prosecutor quit his job and wrote a blistering letter to his colleagues on his way out Friday, blasting the city's "stupid" leaders and declaring they set the city "on a course to disaster."
"The simple fact is that this State and County have set themselves on a course to disaster.
Poje also remarked on how he respected his colleagues who were willing to stay in the city despite the difficulties. Poje said he needed to leave for the sake of his family's safety. "I will not raise my son here. I am fortunate enough to have the means to escape, so my entire family is leaving the State of Illinois. I grew up here, my family and friends are here, and yet my own employer has turned it into a place from which I am no longer proud to be, and in which my son is not safe," he added.Mayor Lori Lightfoot is now calling on Democrat mayors to "speak the truth" on violent crime in their cities amid the spike in Chicago.
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