Mayor Johnson joined Superintendent Larry Snelling to highlight the city’s efforts to use tools like helicopters, license plate readers and widespread surveillance cameras to catch criminals.
Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling, left, and Mayor Brandon Johnson hold a press conference, April 12, 2024, to talk about robberies and carjackings.
“We’re doing everything in our power to hold the offenders of these crimes accountable. Our officers are risking their own safety to apprehend these violent criminals,” Snelling said. Until pressed by reporters Friday, Snelling and Johnson turned attention to their mostly already-in-place policing efforts, including strategies that will face a pre-summer test this weekend with a warm weather forecast.
The three new police helicopters coming to the city will help the department further tackle the problem of cars getting stolen and later used in violent crimes, Snelling said. The purchases, made with federal funding, will double the department’s aging fleet. When Johnson addressed the shooting Tuesday morning, he called it “deeply disturbing” and “extremely painful” while standing alongside Civilian Office of Police Accountability Chief Administrator Andrea Kersten and Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. Snelling, however, was notably absent from the news conference.
“I have to be very careful about what I say,” Snelling said Friday. “When you’re the police in this environment right now, and you have a police-involved shooting, anything you say can be taken as you being biased.”
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