{"id":1417967,"date":"2022-04-04T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417967"},"modified":"2022-04-04T12:29:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:29:46","slug":"chicago-police-say-57-of-carjackings-committed-by-juveniles-chicago-mayor-argues-problems-come-because-youths-do-not-feel-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-police-say-57-of-carjackings-committed-by-juveniles-chicago-mayor-argues-problems-come-because-youths-do-not-feel-loved\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Police Say 57% Of Carjackings Committed By Juveniles. Chicago Mayor Argues Problems Come Because Youths \u2018Do Not Feel Loved\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-police-say-57-of-carjackings-committed-by-juveniles-chicago-mayor-argues-problems-come-because-youths-do-not-feel-loved%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417967&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/05\/Lori-Lightfoot.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>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 \u201cthere are too many young people in this room who do not feel loved, too many, and we\u2019ve got to change that around if we\u2019re going to change around the trajectory of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mayor said Chicago cannot \u2018arrest ourselves\u2019 out of public safety problems,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/as-chicago-police-say-57-of-carjacking-suspects-are-juveniles-lightfoot-says-youth-feel-unloved\">Fox 32<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>But at a meeting of youths discussing carjackings, when asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/us\/2022\/04\/01\/car-jacking-increase-tips-gothere-cnnplus.cnn\">CNN<\/a> \u201cwhat did you see when you\u2019re on the ground on a day-to-day basis with carjackings going on,\u201d one young man offered, \u201cI think most of the people that do carjackings, they do carjackings because they\u2019re either bored and they don\u2019t have nothing else or they do it off of \u00a0peer pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vondale Singleton, the founder and CEO of the CHAMPS Male Mentoring Program, told CNN, \u201cOur young men have a lot of time on their hands; schools shut down and they were bored, so they\u2019re out here joyriding and they don\u2019t understand the ramifications of their actions and choices and decisions that they make \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Ebony Bullock of the South Fulton Police in Georgia told CNN, \u201cSo the most important thing is being aware of your surroundings. \u00a0Make sure that you\u2019re in a well-lit area; you\u2019re not by yourself, and you\u2019re not fumbling when you get to your car and not distracted. \u2026 You\u2019re staying vigilant when you\u2019re alone because that\u2019s when you become a prime target.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet last week, Kwame Amoaku, 51, the head of Chicago\u2019s Film Office, was rushed to intensive care after being attacked by three juveniles attempting to steal his car, and it was early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>At roughly 8 a.m. Wednesday outside his home near the National Museum of Mexican Art, Amoaku noticed three young men inside his car. When he confronted them, they assaulted him and then fled in an SUV, only to return moments later and assault him again before stealing his car. He <a href=\"https:\/\/reelchicago.com\/article\/update-new-details-on-the-kwame-amoaku-attack\/\">wrote on Facebook<\/a>, \u201cThis AM I was attacked, beaten, and my car stolen by three kids. Thanks to all who have reached out. I\u2019m in the ICU, I\u2019m going to be ok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His daughter wrote on Facebook, \u201cMy dad was viciously attacked outside his home. \u00a0He will be unable to work or cook for himself. Please donate if you are able. You never think this would happen to your family. Until it does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/lori-lightfoots-private-text-during-george-floyd-riots-the-city-is-up-for-grabs\/\">reported<\/a> last December:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The texts that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot \u2014 who has been harshly criticized for her leadership as her city descends further into chaos \u2014 sent over more than two and a half years with city aldermen have been revealed, and in one text during the riots after the death of George Floyd she bluntly stated, \u201cThe city is up for grabs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same?\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>Become a member now and join our mission.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}