Police and city leaders face the challenge of keeping everyone safe in Millennium Park and other areas meant to be attractions in a glittering global city.
Off-duty officers stand near The Bean on the first day of Mayor Lori Lightfoot's new guidelines forbidding unaccompanied minors from being in the downtown park after 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, May 19, 2022.
On Thursday, a new order by the mayor, which bans unaccompanied minors from the park after 6 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays, went into effect. Signs at security entrances informed visitors of the rules. Overlaying it all are massive social problems kids themselves have no control over. The availability of guns has put them all in danger. The pandemic and social unrest that rattled a nation over the last two years have left youths stressed and traumatized too, as they lost access to schools, parks and other programming.
Both Chicago police Superintendent David Brown and Lightfoot have blamed recent troubles — including the mass shooting outside McDonald’s — in part on a flood of guns on Chicago’s streets, some of them carried by young people who believe they are protecting themselves.Advertisement “Is there anyone that wants to control 400 teenagers at once? That playbook has not been written nor will it ever,” Cramer said. “All you can do is move the crowds.”
Extended family members trickled out of the family’s home as Seandell’s younger siblings ran about and played on bikes and a trampoline. The news was still settling in about how the teen, who loved music, computers and wrestling, wound up dead, shot to death in a fight. Just a few blocks away from the Holliday home is where Latiker runs Kids Off the Block, an organization she started to keep her own daughter safe from street violence nearly 20 years ago. That daughter is now 31, and on a recent morning Latiker was more worried about her driving away on a shiny new red three-wheel motorcycle.Latiker said most of those heading down are looking to have good time. But there is no doubt that the size and age of the groups are troubling.
So they are finding their own fun downtown with the speed of the Internet. And this is completely natural — social connection, in fact, directly contributes to feeling good and healthy, said Sherida Morrison, who has for decades run programming targeted to Chicago’s girls. Police supervisors could be heard over radios directing skirmish lines — when officers walk in concert, about shoulder to shoulder — to direct the crowds.
“We’re seeing high levels of access to guns,” said Tamara Mahal, who leads the city’s new Community Safety Coordination Center. “And what we hear from community and what we’re trying to support is we want to be in a position where youth feel safe, period, so they don’t feel the need to carry a gun whether they’re in Millennium Park or whether they’re in Douglass Park.”
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