Apologies Line Starts to the Left (UPDATE)

......it's a joke

Once again, we post something we believe to be factual. We take a bunch of heat for it, people demanding proof, demanding video, demanding all sorts of stuff that they know we can't provide, then blaming us for daring to incite ill will toward Rahm's glorious City on a Hill.

Then McCarthy opens his mouth:

• Chicago's downtown areas in recent years have been plagued with incidents of "wildings," in which groups of teens intimidate pedestrians and, at times, assault and rob them.
  
  McCarthy said there were "five or six" mob-type incidents last weekend.
  
  One of the incidents reported to NBC Chicago involved a group of young people who ransacked a convenience store.

"five or six" in CompStat speak probably means "ten or twenty," especially with the undercounting that is so prevalent in any press release/press conference involving McStreetlightAssassin.

The occasion for this "revelation" was a press conference outlining a new "summer strategy" based on McJersey's one shining moment in Chicago - the NATO protests:

• Police are preparing use a tactic first developed to handle roaming protests during the NATO Summit two years ago to deal with a growing number of groups of teenagers attempting to wreak havoc on downtown streets and along the lakefront as summer sets in.
  
  [...] Police formed cordon lines around the groups of teens and followed them around to prevent them from causing trouble.

Just as a refresher, NATO cost how many million of dollars in overtime? Some of which (by the way) still hasn't been paid in two years.

And we're coming off a 2013 overtime budget that shattered records?

And a fall/winter/spring of VRI that threatens to swamp previous year's total?

While homicides continue the exact same pace as 2013 despite one of the coldest winters on record.

The Police are going to "escort" misbehaving teens around the downtown area, babysitting them, when they have no destination in mind, no permits with a delineated marching path, no message to get out to the media...tell us again how this is a good idea?

How about we just have the stores get those roll-down steel curtains we've seen in 015, 011, 007 and elsewhere and roll-up the sidewalks at sundown?

UPDATE: And can someone give us a clue as to how to recognize these incorrigible rascals? Some sort of description. Or are we treading too closely to another political minefield? We don't profile you know - we still remember the Hilliard video - "not in my city, not in our department" or something like that.