Posted on 08/16/2020 5:07:39 AM PDT by Libloather
Chicago will deploy 1,000 extra police officers across the city this weekend after the area experienced looting throughout downtown and some residential parts of the city this week.
Chicago Police Department (CPD) Superintendent David Brown announced Thursday the city's safety plans following widespread looting and damaging of businesses that resulted in more than 100 arrests this week, local NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV reported.
Brown said the CPD would extend officers' hours and cancel days off, emphasizing, "This is our town; it doesn't belong to the criminals."
"Don't let these criminals run you out of this beautiful city," Brown said, adding, "Our department, our police officers will risk their lives to protect you. Not in our town. Not in our city."
According to CPD police spokesman Tom Ahern, widespread looting broke out early Monday morning on Lake Street near Michigan Avenue, with suspects using U-Haul trucks and cargo vans to steal items from businesses in the area.
Afterward, Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) told Time magazine this week the violence and robberies were a result of "organized criminal activity."
Brown was stern in his message Thursday, warning any potential looters that the CPD "is going to arrest you," noting that department would use any means necessary to prevent looters from stealing this weekend.
"We are going to deploy all tactics necessary to prevent and stop looting," Brown added. "That means deploying stop strips to puncture your tires if you're caravaning cars to loot. We will disable your cars to prevent the caravan, and we will work very hard to do so. If that means deploying tow trucks to impound your cars that are caravaning to loot, CPD will do so," Brown said.
A Black Lives Matter demonstration is also planned for Saturday to block off part of the Dan Ryan Expressway...
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I guess they aren’t going to be “defunding the police?”
Why? What changed?
The rioters don’t care about the vehicles. They’re all stolen.
Some basic stuff on last nights asshattery is on Second City Cop.
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Wow! She agrees that BLM and antifa are organized crime. How about getting the feds to bring RICO charges, then?
It is crazy not to defund the police! It is working so well in other leftist cities.
Re-fund the police?
Is there anything left worth stealing? Who knew.
Who would have thunk Law and Order would break out in Chicago?
Time to break out the Richard Daly playbook!
And so?
Tax receipts for starters...
The nice stores got popped. Can't have that.
>>How about getting the feds to bring RICO charges, then? <<
Kim Foxx is a disaster and is letting out the criminals as fast as they are arrested. It will require outside intervention to get anyone convicted.
Wonder how much the murder rate will drop around businesses they’re protecting, and how much the murder rate would drop if they deployed those extra officers to actually patrol the streets and arrest bad guys.
Yep. Is there anything more demoralizing to the police than watching their hard work nabbing the bastards get wiped out by a Soros DA?
Best wishes. I hope they don’t hurt or offend any Peaceful People of Oppressionism Victimhood, triggering many more weeks of Mostly People burning and socializing of property.
I hope they all call in sick.
“...Yep. Is there anything more demoralizing to the police than watching their hard work nabbing the bastards get wiped out by a Soros DA?...”
Nope....just ask the Oregon State Police after they pulled out of Portland.
There is only ONE WAY to deal with communism....nobody wants to face it.
The Feds need to file RICO charges against Kim Foxx.
She is personally responsible for every crime committed by every criminal she refuses to prosecute.
Political correctness is a fatal disease.
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