Weekend Safety Plan

Guess what? 

There isn't one, but the Contrarian proposes someone should come up with one:

• By now, we all know the Brandon Johnson drill. When episodes of teenagers swarming the downtown area create havoc, the mayor reacts with an outpouring of sympathy and understanding for the conditions in which marauding teens live. As Johnson expresses his worry over teens ravaging downtown, he readily dispenses the valid concerns of residents, visitors, and businesses owners in the affected areas.

  Part of a troubling pattern demonstrated by Johnson, the mayor’s impulse to excuse teenage lawbreaking extends back to the period prior to his assuming office in 2023. For those who are willing to remember, on the evening of April 15, 2023, throngs of teens descended on the downtown and pandemonium followed. One day later, as Loop residents dug themselves out of the rubble, the damage done was significant and visible: Gunfire wounded two teens, motorists were assaulted, and teens battered pedestrians on the public way.

  At the time, Johnson, then mayor-elect, reacted by declaring the city was in need of a “comprehensive approach to improve public safety.”

Since then, of course, Conehead has done diddly-squat.

The Contrarian suggests (as we and others have) that police resources from CPD, Cook County, and ISP should proactively be deployed at origin points, like the Red Line. If manpower allowed it, it might work....IF there was a political will to bring enforcement, detention and punishment. 

There isn't, so it will continue.