Four Time Felon

Isn't it far past time for a "three strikes" law, not to mention a "truth in sentencing" law?

• A repeat felon with a decades-long rap sheet was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder of a police officer in the fatal shooting of Cmdr. Paul Bauer.
  
  Shomari Legghette, 44, is also charged with aggravated use of a weapon by a felon and drug possession, officials say.
  
  [...]
  
  Legghette’s adult criminal record includes convictions for armed robbery, resisting a correctional officer and felony drug possession.
  
  In 1998, he robbed a Forest Park couple in their driveway. Legghette claimed he was urinating when an acquaintance nicknamed “Trouble” pointed a pistol at a man in his car and ordered his wife to turn over her valuables.
  
  Legghette was arrested after getting away in a car and running from police. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the holdup, according to documents in his unsuccessful appeal.
  
  More recently, Legghette was charged in 2014 with selling heroin to a man. Five baggies of the drug and $138 were found on him. He was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison.

That's quite a criminal history there. And it didn't stop him from getting another gun. Why is that do you suppose?

And finally, this bit of nauseating theater:

• Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx stressed the weight of the charges against Legghette.
  
  “There is no more serious offense than the killing of a police officer in the line of duty,” she said.

The single biggest hurdle to getting repeat felons charged and keeping them in prison for the sentences imposed by State Law is the Cook County States Attorney's office. And to have her up there spouting off about "serious offense[s]" is an insult to crime victims across the County.