With the uptick in carjackings in Chicago lately, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown on Friday announced a new strategy to combat them.
that targeted women right downtown this week.
Brown said 60 percent of the people arrested for carjackings are juveniles and some have stolen cars four, five, or even six times. Brown points to the case of an 11-year-old whom he described as a prolific carjacker, responsible for traumatizing a Mt. Greenwood mom and her adult daughter last November."He actually skipped like a child, all the way up. Skipping, like young kids do. He's being a kid," the woman said in January."I don't actually think he knew what he was doing, or getting involved with.
Brown said the CPD had found the child who was part of the Mount Greenwood carjacking had been out of school for two years. Brown said the boy's mom had recently died, and his dad was sick.
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