Mogadishu, USA

What else do you call it?

• A group armed with rifles and handguns conducted 12 robberies in an hour on Thanksgiving morning throughout the Southwest Side.

  The group was driving a light or dark blue Toyota or Hyundai sedan.

  No injuries were reported, but property was taken before the group fled in the sedan.

WGN lists all twelve addresses.....and exactly ZERO descriptions of offenders.

CWB (which also didn't list an offender description for some reason) was refused video footage by the Department until they called the Attorney General's office, but they did point out pretty much what is the issue with the massive upswing in robberies:

• A Chicago police sergeant spotted the robbers’ getaway car as they drove through the West Loop. He mentioned it on the radio but did not pursue it.

  [...] The increase is primarily due to incessant armed robbery sprees like the one that popped up on September 23: Small groups of young men, usually traveling in stolen cars, sometimes committing more than a dozen robberies at a time. But the Chicago Police Department has become so risk-averse that its supervisors almost always order patrol officers to terminate pursuits of violent offenders, even if the cops see an armed robbery committed firsthand.

  Chicago has paid out tens of millions of dollars for lives lost and injuries caused by pursuits that ended with crashes. The police department’s written policy explicitly states that no officer will ever be punished for not chasing a suspect. And CPD supervisors have become so skittish about the possibility of something going wrong they’ve even ordered cops to stop pursuing a car suspected of carrying wanted murderers.

  Of course, there’s a trade-off when the city discourages pursuits to save money and reduce the possibility of injury to third parties. That trade-off is that armed, violent people are not apprehended, and they continue to commit crimes.

When you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. 

And not being pursued is a "reward."