Smash and Grab and Shooting

So they're doing this again:

• A Chicago police officer discharged his gun after a vehicle involved in the burglary of a GameStop ran into him Thursday morning at a Northwest Side strip mall, leading to a chase and a crash 5 miles away in East Village.

  No one was shot or badly hurt, and the burglars got away.

  The incident unfolded around 4:25 a.m., as Albany Park Police District officers noticed several armed individuals burglarizing the GameStop at 2929 W. Addison St. in the Addison Mall, Chicago police said.

  The burglars got into a white Chrysler sedan and a red Jeep SUV and ran into a responding officer as they fled, police said. The officer was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

  As the officer was hit by the vehicle, he fired his weapon, authorities said. There were no reports of anyone being struck by gunfire.

Did they ever really stop the "hot car though the front entrance" thing? We'll confess to not going downtown any more, so we don't know if the Mag Mile store owners ever got around to putting in bollards, reinforcing entryways with steel and other car stopping devices, but we have noticed a drop off in coverage of those sorts of events in 001/018.

We did notice more suburban events for a time. Are Coneheads non-demonized yutes now hitting the softer targets without the means to install preventive measures?

Good to hear the Officer is going to be alright and will be inside for Billiken, Air and Water and the really warm dog days coming up.