CWB:
Carjacking questions. We get a lot of ‘em.
So, as vehicular hijackings are being reported even more frequently in 2021 than during 2020’s disaster, let’s take a minute here to answer a few of the more common inquiries.
Why are there so many carjackings?
Chicago police are blaming gangs and the widespread use of masks during the COVID pandemic for last year’s 135% increase in carjacking cases. (Hopefully, you’re getting a good laugh out of the mask-blaming. We did.)
Beat cops we’ve spoken with say one reason for the increase is that carjacking crews are committing two, three, four, and sometimes even more hijackings in a matter of hours.
The carjackers, who are usually young and often juveniles, are taking the cars for recreation. It’s fun for them.
In Lincoln Park on Friday, a carjacking team took a car at gunpoint in the 1100 block of West Montana around 7 p.m. Less than 20 minutes later, they abandoned the stolen car and carjacked another driver in the 400 block of West Roslyn.
Monday evening, armed men took a car at gunpoint in Chinatown. That car was found abandoned less than 30 minutes later.
But some carjacked rides are retained by hijackers who use them to commit other crimes.
In an email to her constituents last week, Lincoln Park Alderman Michele Smith (43rd), a former federal prosecutor, pointed to a lack of consequences as another reason for the city’s hijacking problem.
“Juveniles are highly involved in carjackings,” Smith wrote. “Unfortunately, Illinois changed the law in 2016 so that arrests for armed carjacking are no longer treated as automatically adult crimes. An effort to change the law I championed in 2018 failed in Springfield. Since then, carjackings by juveniles have skyrocketed.”
What kinds of cars are being taken? more
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Want to avoid car jackings? Stay out of black neighborhoods.
No stay out of Chicago altogether
@aleon, This is happening all over — even in the suburbs. YOu have to go to the best neighborhoods to get the best rides.
And DC. All shades rip you off and kill you, there.
ask the dindu-dwarf commie carpet-muncher loyuh in charge
Drive a car no one but you wants and you won’t get carjacked.
That’s how I do it and it’s worked perfectly so far.
^^ What kind of tires does it have? lol
Just wait till all the used cars for sale dry up with the next “cash for clunkers”. Although jacking an electric will be fun to watch.
“^^ What kind of tires does it have? lol”
Nearly bald ones but at least they still have enough tread to be legal.
Nice!
Here is the truth: The asshole Democrat politicians they keep electing let all of the convicted carjackers out of jail and put them back on the streets
As an unedumacated hick from the far suburbs can someone tell me what the “CWB” stands for?
Good websight when I look for some solace in still being in IL (at least I’m not in Shitcago).
With the recent passing of the new “Criminal Reform Bill” the guys on the job have hit a new low regarding their: viewpoint, outlook, perspective, stance, standpoint, position, inclination, temper, orientation, approach, reaction; opinion, ideas, convictions, feelings, thinking.
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If you live in a septic tank, you gotta put up with shit.
That’s just the way it works.
You don’t need an exit visa to get out of Chicago, do you?
izlamo delenda est …
CWB stands for 3 different neighborhoods of the city.
RomanV JANUARY 20, 2021 AT 4:57 PM
Thanks…
Get the “Boystown and Wrigleyville” Does the “C” equal Lakeview somehow?
Do any of these knuckleheads know how to drive a car with a manual transmission? I’d bet none of them would know what a 3 in the tree is, but that’s an old car that some of us older guys grew up learning to drive in.
Had a dodge pickup that had the starter button on the floor…
Back then most thought it was the dimmer/bright switch that was also on the floor some years after that.