With their weapons drawn, Chicago Police officers launched a new assault on the Maniac Latin Disciples on Thursday.
Supt. Garry McCarthy declared war on the gang in June after a member allegedly shot and wounded two young girls on the Northwest Side. Since then, patrol officers have made more than 500 arrests of gang members.
On Thursday, it was the narcotics division’s turn. Narcotics officers have spent months building drug cases against gang members.
One thing disturbed us though:
- Some of the officers wore bandanas to hide their faces because they work undercover.
Seriously? Why are we using UCO's to do busts? And the bandanas? Call us crazy, but that seems very....Third World-ish? Aren't those what the "death squads" wear in Brazil, Mexico or some other backwater shithole? We're so shorthanded, we're risking exposing the UCO's who do a lot of the necessary footwork to make cases that will stick in court. That's just silly in our opinion.
In the end, eight of the twenty-plus targets were arrested.
In the end, eight of the twenty-plus targets were arrested.