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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: #2,647 - New Cook County State's Attorney drops felony retail theft threshold to $300
Description: With Eileen O'Neill Burke now officially sworn in as Cook County State's Attorney, big changes are expected in how retail theft cases are charged and handled.
The $1,000 threshold to make retail theft a felony crime—which was set by O'Neill Burke's predecessor, Kim Foxx—will be dropping to $300, effective immediately.
This change in how retail theft cases are charged is music to the ears of small business owners—who say all thefts hurt, and the new rules should help.
Organized retail thefts have been caught...