TECHNOLOGY ISSUES

• Virtually all Chicagoans now possess to digital communications devices (cell phones, PC's) that have the potential to make Chicago either SAFE  or UNSAFE.

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• Examples of digital media used to make Chicago UNSAFE include: 

  • Disposable cell phones used to secure gang communications

  • Social media used to foment personal or gang violence

  • Online offshore bank accounts used to conceal money from illegal drug trades​​

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POLICE MANPOWER ISSUES

• "WE CAN'T DO IT ALONE" Chicago mayors and police chiefs have long pleaded with the public for their assistance in addressing Chicago's violence, openly admitted that "We can't do it alone."

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• POLICE "OUTMANNED AND OUTGUNNED" The 100,000+ (by CPD count) members of Chicago's gangs have long outnumbered Chicago's twelve or thirteen thousand beat police officers

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• POLICE MORALE AT HISTORIC LOWS

  • Police suicides​

  • Rise in retirements

  • Stress from required overtime

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