So late last year, the CPS made an offer to school principals - reduce your police presence by one officer and get a budgetary line item worth x-thousands of dollars (we heard anywhere from $25,000 up to $30,000.) Cut your police contingent out completely and you get an extra $50,000 to spend.
Some schools did exactly that and now we have to wonder what the fallout is:
Some schools did exactly that and now we have to wonder what the fallout is:
A 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by a schoolmate, who also injured another student, inside a far South Side alternative high school Thursday morning.
The teenager believed to be the perpetrator, who is also 17, is in Chicago police custody following the 7:30 a.m. incident outside the AMIkids Infinity high school, 10211 S. Crandon, said Chicago Police Officer Robert Perez.
The victim, Chris Wormely, was the intended target of the attack, a police source said. Chicago police are still searching for the weapon, sources said. Wormely was standing in line for a patdown inside the school when the attacker rushed at him and stabbed him, police and his family said.
Does anyone know if this "alternative" high school had a police presence prior to the cash offer? We got an e-mail from a west side officer who said his district is handling double the calls at one particular high school since they ended the two-man detail at the school. Is this another case of "penny wise; pound foolish?"