Chicago Police Department Issues Carjacking Warning as City Gears Up for 2024 Democratic National ConventionWarner Todd Huston 2 May 2023
With the Democratic National Convention just over a year away, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) has issued a carjacking alert as crime continues to sweep over the Windy City.
The CPD especially pinpointed a team of four masked men who have committed a string of armed carjackings. Officials say that the crew stole at least seven cars in the last week of April alone, according to ABC 7.
While the number of carjackings decreased by eleven percent in 2021, at 1,600 armed incidents it was still the second highest rate of armed carjackings in twenty years, ABC 7 noted in a separate report.
In 2021, the worst year on record, 1,849 cars were stolen by armed assailants. Already this year, around three hundred such incidents have been reported.
Law enforcement agencies are struggling to address the problem. A month ago the FBI helped bag a crew of armed robbers who are also accused of a number of carjackings when four suspects in their 20s were arrested after the thieves stole a stack of cash with a tracker inside from a Northwest Side 7-Eleven store.
In other news, on Monday, Emanuel Embry, 23, was sentenced to 40 years in prison after being arrested last year for carjacking a pregnant woman at gunpoint.
Much of the soaring crime overall in Chicago is plaguing the city’s black communities, a point HBO talk host Bill Maher recently noted on his Real Time show.
“But why isn’t anyone ever talking to — like Chicago, most of the shootings are young black men killing other young black men, is that not correct?” Maher asked during his April 21 episode.
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