Mayor Lori Lightfoot tied the Chicago carjacking wave to remote learning, drawing the ire of the CTU.
CHICAGO -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday linked the city's surge in carjackings to the shutdown of schools at the start of the pandemic, drawing swift condemnation from the Chicago Teachers Union.
"For many of these kids, some of whom had no prior involvement in the criminal justice system, this was pure boredom," she added."But we're way past that point now, and we've gotta bend the curve on this issue." City data show through March 1, 2020, weeks before students went remote, Chicago had recorded 148 carjackings, a 68% increase compared to 2019's 88 incidents during that time.
And while Lightfoot stressed the need for"accountability," she said the prosecution of minors has to be coupled with therapy and programming to help intervene and prevent them from reoffending. Without that, Brown acknowledged, the police department won't be able to substantially decrease the number of carjackings.
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