Chicago Police Say 57% Of Carjackings Committed By Juveniles. Chicago Mayor Argues Problems Come Because Youths ‘Do Not Feel Loved’
As the Chicago Police Department announced that 57% of the carjacking suspects in 2022 are juveniles, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot told young people at a townhall gathering devoted to public safety “there are too many young people in this room who do not feel loved, too many, and we’ve got to change that around if we’re going to change around the trajectory of their lives.”
“The mayor said Chicago cannot ‘arrest ourselves’ out of public safety problems,” Fox 32 reported.
But at a meeting of youths discussing carjackings, when asked by CNN “what did you see when you’re on the ground on a day-to-day basis with carjackings going on,” one young man offered, “I think most of the people that do carjackings, they do carjackings because they’re either bored and they don’t have nothing else or they do it off of peer pressure.”
Vondale Singleton, the founder and CEO of the CHAMPS Male Mentoring Program, told CNN, “Our young men have a lot of time on their hands; schools shut down and they were bored, so they’re out here joyriding and they don’t understand the ramifications of their actions and choices and decisions that they make …” – READ MORE
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