CHICAGO -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday linked the city's surge in carjackings to the shutdown of schools at the start of the pandemic, drawing swift condemnation from the Chicago Teachers Union.
"For many of these kids, some of whom had no prior involvement in the criminal justice system, this was pure boredom," she added."But we're way past that point now, and we've gotta bend the curve on this issue." City data show through March 1, 2020, weeks before students went remote, Chicago had recorded 148 carjackings, a 68% increase compared to 2019's 88 incidents during that time.
And while Lightfoot stressed the need for"accountability," she said the prosecution of minors has to be coupled with therapy and programming to help intervene and prevent them from reoffending. Without that, Brown acknowledged, the police department won't be able to substantially decrease the number of carjackings.
Everyone deserves second chance but there are people out there not of the same Species as the rest of us, chicagosmayor making excuses/refusing to accept that fact isn’t helping! cbschicago nbcchicago WGNNews fox32news WBEZ chicagotribune Suntimes JBPritzker
The protective Mama Bear CONTINUES to be Complicit,Enabling & Excusing of Gang Crimes! THAT’S Why people are leaving their Once Beloved Chicago hometown! 117,000 gang ppl have🤢Infested ChiGangTown & we can no longer Safely Enjoy our City anymore! GANGS ARE MULTI-GENERATIONAL‼️
She needs to…
Don’t forget we’re only 1 year away from no cash bail! More offenders let loose!
as a CPS parent...pull a Chazz Palminteri, end of Usual Suspects moment - and connect those dots for me. bad fridge magnet poetry and mad libs from my niece make a hell of a lot more sense...somewhere Paul Reubens is singing...'Connect the Dots...'
Sorry Mayor, you are Wrong. Police Officers are not Respected by Criminals. Punishment is not fitting the Crime. These kids are running wild because there is no Discipline. We need these kids to be locked up and Show them the life they will live if Prosecuted.
God damn teachers stealing cars during lunch breaks SMH
Oh it has nothing to do with her handcuffing the police and KimFoxx turning violent offenders loose.
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CTU gets mad about a lot of things.