What It's Like to Be a Cook County Prosecutor | Risa Lanier | We Are Witnesses

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. Watch the rest of We Are Witnesses: Chicago here: /watch/sEfCsBydQ9bdC . A Chicago native, Lanier grew up on the South Side of Chicago with a stepfather who was on the Chicago police force. “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, 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.” Watch the rest of We Are Witnesses: Chicago here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/chicago Subscribe to The Marshall Project on YouTube: http://bit.ly/SubscribeMarshallProject For more criminal justice and immigration coverage, visit The Marshall Project's website: https://www.themarshallproject.org And follow The Marshall Project on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheMarshallProject.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marshallproj Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marshallproj/ The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. Join us on our channel as we strive to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice. The Marshall Project achieves this through award-winning journalism, partnerships with other news outlets and public forums. In all of our work we strive to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice.

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