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Spent a few weeks examining the carjacking issue in Chicago.
Fellow journalists in local media, especially in breaking news: Please stop obsessively reporting on carjacking with information obtained from the police. They're misrepresenting their own data. https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/carjacking-spike-youth-crime/Content?oid=88315011
Fellow journalists in local media, especially in breaking news: Please stop obsessively reporting on carjacking with information obtained from the police. They're misrepresenting their own data. https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/carjacking-spike-youth-crime/Content?oid=88315011
The police made arrests in, at most, 15% of the carjacking cases from 2020. Experts explain this isn't nearly enough to make conclusions about who's doing the carjacking and why.
And even if youth were actually to blame for the recent spike, the "solutions" many city officials are calling for are likely to make things worse, not better. Lots of words of wisdom from @GKMC18 organizers on this issue in the story!
Bonus content: a story about my own brush with juvenile delinquency https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/carjackings-cover-note/Content?oid=88335882
