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  • Cui Prodest? The Victims’ Justice Ordinance and Chicago’s Future

    Cui Prodest? The Victims’ Justice Ordinance and Chicago’s Future

    With her poll numbers falling in the lead-up to the Chicago Mayoral election in 2021, an embattled Lori Lightfoot sought to appear “tough on crime” by proposing the Victims’ Justice Ordinance, one of the most controversial civil asset forfeiture laws ever put forward in Chicago’s history. Despite the fact that…