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Spring Wilding In Chicago
Anyone remember this excerpt from a March 20 post I published about Chicago’s wilding problem?:
One needs only to follow local events (Second City Cop blog is my vehicle of choice) the last two years to recognize that Chicago has a wilding problem. So much so that City Hall is now even talking about clamping down on flash mobs/mob actions/mob attacks what have you.
Alas, talk is cheap.
And the wilding was back in full-force downtown this past weekend:
One witness, community activist Andrew Holmes, estimated the number of wilding participants was close to 500 individuals.
As for the supposed clamp-down? Fran Spielman reported yesterday on the Chicago Sun-Times website:
In an email to his constituents, downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) described Saturday’s incident as “very disturbing” and said it was “orchestrated” on Facebook and Twitter involving 400 young people.
Reilly said he planned to meet with police officials this week to press for “additional, high-visibility resources” for downtown commercial corridors during warm weather months, including foot and bike patrols and a beefed-up CTA detail.
Shouldn’t Alderman Reilly be talking to the downtown business owners? After all, they’re the ones who’d be footing the bill for the extra police presence as part of his ordinance- last I heard.
No dinero from those local businesses, no cops.
If it’s on-duty CPD officers he’s referring to, I’m guessing the alderman never got that memo about the ongoing manpower shortage in the Chicago Police Department? From what I understood, “extra” cops are being paid overtime to help saturate some of the city’s problem neighborhoods these days.
Leaving districts like mine (16th District) an attractive target for the city’s criminal element.
As it stands right now, warm weather looks to be heading back into the Chicagoland area by the end of the week. Which should make for an interesting weekend in “Wildingville.”
By Christopher E. Hill, Editor
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Source:
Spielman, Fran. “Attacks on Mag Mile, CTA dim glow from 69% drop in murder rate.” Chicago Sun-Times. 1 Apr. 2013. (http://www.suntimes.com/19213008-761/attacks-on-mag-mile-cta-dim-glow-from-69-drop-in-murder-rate.html). 2 Apr. 2013.
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