Chicago is
doing a terrible job of protecting its African American citizens from gun
violence. But, it doesn’t have to be
this way. Unfortunately, Democrats in
Chicago who’ve run the city for decades car more about political correctness
than saving black lives!
The city’s
murder rate, which hit an all-time low last year, continues to plummet thanks
to creative new police strategies that target youth gangs and spouse beaters.
The
innovative tactics helped send the city’s homicide numbers tumbling to a
record-low 414 murders in 2012 and they’re down another 33 percent so far this
year, police said.
One novel
approach involves charging teen gang members with conspiracy, using taunts and
threats they post on social-media sites to build mafia-style cases against
them.
“For the last couple years, we’ve seen the
emergence of younger males committing crimes in small geographic areas — turf,”
he said.
“My idea,
the Crew Cut concept, focuses on this directly, and we’re addressing it with
the gang unit, patrol and SNU [street narcotics units] in the precincts that
need it most in each borough,” he said.
The new
units — dubbed SETs for Strategy Enforcement Teams — operate in eight precincts
in all five boroughs.
Kelly also
revealed he’s doubling the gang division’s strength, from 150 to 300 officers.
“In each
initiative, the teams help us monitor social media and we gather information we
can use on these groups.”
“We think
that it’s working. We started in October, and it’s paying dividends now.”
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