Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy to Murderous Gangbangers: ‘Now, Now, That’s Simply Unacceptable’

 
Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy at a press conference in a vacant lot at 57th & Carpenter Streets on Saturday, August 25

Posted and annotated by Nicholas Stix

For some reason, Supt. McCarthy uses stronger language with white suburbanites, who are somehow supposed to “care” more about racist, black gangbangers than the gangbangers’ own families, friends, social workers, preachers, teachers, etc.

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Top cop lauds drug arrests in fight against “unacceptable” violence
By Dawn Rhodes
Chicago Tribune
August 26, 2012, 12:30 a.m. CDT

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy acknowledged today that the city has an "unacceptable level of violence," but insisted that the department's efforts to combat narcotics-related gang crime is showing positive results.

[N.S.: Like what?]

In a crime-ridden week in which at least six victims were killed in the past two days alone, Chicago police arrested more than a dozen people as part of two busts of gang-controlled drug markets in the Wentworth and Englewood police districts, McCarthy said today.

Five people were arrested Thursday for their roles in drug sales taking place in the area of 39th Street between Calumet Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, McCarthy said.

An additional 10 people were arrested Friday for their participation in an open-air drug market near 55th and 59th streets and Throop and May streets. Both markets were controlled by members of the Gangster Disciple street gang, McCarthy said.

Various types of narcotics, firearms, a vehicle and an undisclosed amount of cash were seized as part of the investigations.

McCarthy said the drug busts are a critical piece to also quell violence that often stems from narcotic activity.

"They argue over turf, they get into these violent disputes with each another, and that's how people get hurt," McCarthy said. "The strategy now is to partner with the community, to hold on to those spots, to not let them regress to the conditions that they were in previously."

McCarthy added that police have conducted more than 20 similar drug busts and each area has experienced less crime. He said that shootings have been down for four consecutive months and homicides in the troublesome Englewood district were down by 25 percent.

Still, McCarthy said he knew that their progress is not enough.

"This month, we're having some trouble, because some of these retaliatory shootings are happening quicker than we've been able to get in front of them," he said. "We're not going to win every day, we're not going to win every week. Sometimes, we've got to do better. We are making progress."

cdrhodes@tribune.com
Twitter @rhodes_dawn


[Thanks to reader-researcher RC for this story.

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