Protect it from What?

Because we know who ain't misbehaving:

• Chicago Police Department leaders announced their safety plan Thursday ahead of the city’s 54th Pride Parade this weekend.

  The parade, which kicks off at 11 a.m. Sunday, is expected to draw roughly a million people to the North Side neighborhoods of Northalsted, Lake View, Uptown and Lincoln Park.

  Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling said the department’s goal is to prevent any outbreaks of violence after the parade ends, which he said have occurred in previous years.

Oh, just the aftermath? Wwe haven't seen anything like actual barricades capable of stopping cars and / or truck driving down sidewalks or streets. For that, you'd have to profile certain individuals, and we all know who has a habit of driving cars through crowded parade routes.

The after-party is a completely different type of profiling....and no one wants to say that one out loud either.

All the more reason to put every parade down in Grant Park, use salt trucks, steel bollards, and tire shredding devices to secure the route from terror-types, and get the rowdy morons out of the neighborhoods where they plunder the residents and attack the party-goers.