Richard Barber’s letter to the editor regarding help needed to stop carjackings was insightful. However, helicopter assistance to the police does not address an alarming trend in carjackings.
In February 2018, the Sun-Times reported that most juveniles charged with armed carjackings are let go in 24 hours. Of the 49 youths charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking in 2017 in Cook County Juvenile Court, 29 were released on electronic monitoring. Flash forward to Feb. 16, 2022 when the Sun-Times reported that Chicago Police Supt. David Brown maintained that about half of the carjackers arrested in the first two months of this year were juveniles. He once again blamed the court system for being too willing to release juveniles accused of carjacking.
