Conehead Supports Wilding

For all the noise politicians are making about battling the "teen takeovers," guess who isn't a fan?

• Despite a Memorial Day weekend marred by teen takeovers turned violent, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Wednesday that stricter curfew and parental responsibility laws are not the answer to the perennial problem plaguing Chicago.

  Johnson said 15 arrests were made early Sunday after a car veered into five Chicago police officers and injured them as they tried to disperse an unruly crowd of youths gathered on the Near West Side. But those arrests, he added, did not prevent an even bigger crowd from overtaking the 57th Street Beach in Hyde Park and spilling onto Lake Shore Drive on Memorial Day.

  That tells the mayor throwing the book at young people and their parents is not the answer to the problem of unruly gatherings summoned by social media.

Here we go again with the "You can't arrest your way out of these situations" bullshit.

Yes you can - you just have to be consistent with it. Every. Single. Time.

This guy gets it:

• Former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy’s hard-nosed approach to unruly groups of young people largely succeeded in controlling the flash mobs that plagued Michigan Avenue during then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s tenure.

  “I didn’t have a mayor like Brandon Johnson who made excuses,” McCarthy said. “Let’s stop calling them teen takeovers. That is sending the wrong message. That sounds cute. These are mob actions. … There needs to be some sort of accountability for not just the kids but the parents and elected officials. Permissiveness is not working. It’s never worked. All it does is cause bad behavior.”

McStreetlights was always a secret fan of the blog and here he is almost quoting us about rewarding bad behavior causing more bad behavior. He was also the candy-ass who mothballed the LRAD despite it being the best available tool for dispersing crowds.