Chicago Has an Epidemic of Carjacking

The previous post was about Philadelphia, but that city is not alone in having problems. Carjackings Chicago: CPD, community team up in effort to protect women, elderly from car theft - ABC7 Chicago

First, the statistics, which are actually at the end of the article, because it is bad news, and reporters don't like to report that Democratic-Party-Controlled cities have severe problems with crime.

In the first month of this year, Chicago police reported 218 carjackings, a 283% increase when compared to the same time period last year. In January 2020, there were 77 carjackings.

The powers that be - or pretend to be - are implementing a strategy. It is an easy fix in certain ways, and because it is easy, I doubt that it will work the way they hope.

Extra security, including Chicago police officers are currently in place at some Chicago gas stations, in an effort to protect residents from the recent dramatic uptick in carjackings.

Now Chicago police will team up with those same monitors to escort women and seniors to their cars at several grocery stores and gas stations on the South Side.

They hope this will reduce the number of carjackings. I doubt it. It will push the carjacking to other locations. (Police won't be guarding every street corner.) People - as the elderly woman in the previous post was - will be attacked when they are getting home from shopping instead of at the shopping center.

But cops and politicians will be able to say, "See, we are doing something!" Even if what they are doing is pointless in the end. Because the politicians, the lawyers and the judges cannot admit that their entire strategy to make things fair and reduce incarceration is destroying law and order.

The previous post on the situation in Philadelphia can be found at this link.