Risa Lanier has been a prosecutor in Cook County for 20 years and serves as the chief of criminal prosecution in the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. Lanier grew up on the South Side of Chicago with a stepfather who was on the Chicago Police Department.
“When I was a younger prosecutor, I saw a prosecutor as an arm of law enforcement,” she told The Marshall Project.
In this installment of We Are Witnesses: Chicago, she speaks about prosecutors’ power to change the lives of victims, defendants and communities as a whole.
“While we’re not social workers, we’re certainly taking on looking at cases through a different lens,” Lanier explains, “so that when we do make those decisions on our cases, we are considering how this will impact the community as a whole.”
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