Driving in tonight, we heard McNewGuy talking about some new strategy he was implementing in response to the uptick in shootings centered around warm weekend weather. It involved something about actually talking to the people working the street, cops in close proximity to the gangs, front line intelligence.
Unfortunately, we can't find the audio on WBBM's radio website. Anyone have any idea where it might be? It sounded somehow exactly like what our readers have been preaching here since McOutsider arrived.
No mentioning manpower though.
UPDATE: Ah yes, here it is. Everything old is new again:
Unfortunately, we can't find the audio on WBBM's radio website. Anyone have any idea where it might be? It sounded somehow exactly like what our readers have been preaching here since McOutsider arrived.
No mentioning manpower though.
UPDATE: Ah yes, here it is. Everything old is new again:
- After a violent weekend during which five people were killed and more than 20 hurt in separate shootings, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Monday the police department is implementing a new gangs strategy using intelligence on the ground level.
"We are conducting gang audits in each district, which means we are sitting down with a map, we are sitting down with the officers who work on those beats," McCarthy told ABC7. "We are sitting down with our intelligence personnel and we're mapping out who are the gang members, what turfs do they claim is theirs and who are they in conflict with."
Ah, yes. The old "map with the push pins" strategy. We haven't seen that one in a few years. Next comes the color-coded map with all the gang territories looking so pretty. And you know what comes next, right?
- McCarthy says the strategy is about responding to incidents before the retaliation begins.
