The Sun-Times reported today that Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy would respond aggressively to the recent attacks and muggings by groups of teenagers that took place in Downtown Chicago this past weekend.
The most recent attack occurred about 10 p.m. Sunday, when a group of teens punched and kicked a man in the 800 block of North Dewitt. A short time later an out-of-town couple were attacked and robbed by a mob of youths on the Red Line at State and Lake, officials said.
Last year we were treated to the flash mob attacks along Chicago’s Gold Coast. In response to those attacks additional officers, uniformed and plain clothes were dispatched to the area and the attacks ceased. Supt. McCarthy, “We will use the same thing we used last year,” “We’re going to have a high deployment [of officers] on Michigan Avenue.”
One would expect police officers to be spread pretty thin, since McCarthy is also aggressively taking action to bring down the gang violence on the south and west sides.
The police will have their hands full trying to be everywhere at once so it would be in your best interests to pay more attention to who is nearby and what is going on around you.
What can you do to make yourself less of a target?
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