It is a souvenir weekend in Chicago. Dozens of teenagers are planning to go to the 31st street beach in a “teenage” possible acquisition. How should the city of Chicago respond?
This was directed at a first meeting last week that combined Chicago residents with completely different views on how to respond to the so -called “teenagers' attitudes”, or group gatherings of young people that sometimes turned into chaos or violent.
It was held by the mayor's office with police, fire and health departments in Chicago, and members of the Council, including Ald. Brian Hopkins, (2nd), and community organizations.
Participants said they obtained a beach map and set out in groups to discuss what they would do to try to prevent gatherings from getting out of control. I ran the responses to the series.
“On one side, you have people talking about car parks and closing buses,” the participant recalls Kofi Adimola. “You are completely trying to prevent young people from reaching the beach.
“Then on the other side,” the city can prepare the beach for an improvised party, carnival, or small control, even the distribution of gift bags and the appointment of peace specialists for young people to see their peers in the event of a need to remove the fighting.
This was the first time that Ademola participated in a wide conversation that the city leads with different views on how to address teenagers.
The conversation comes amid another discussion on whether the tawarir has been tougher laws can help prevent these gatherings from getting out of control. More than 30 members of the city council – enough to pass a decree – indicated that they believe that a toughest curfew is the right step.
They have signed a controversial suggestion from Hopkins that would give the Chicago police the ability to create an immediate curfew when they suspect that group gathering can turn into cash.
But despite his actual support in the council, Hopkins negotiates the proposal to curfew in the mayor's office. This is partly because he admired the city's non -police intervention to prevent adolescent acquisitions.
This work includes sending response workers to crises to help interfering in conflicts with their appearance, communicate with the organizers early and recruit public schools in Chicago to communicate and discourage teenagers.
After a separate meeting last week between Hopkins and the sponsors of the participants. There is likely to be an alternative decree on this issue, probably, there is likely to be an alternative decree on this issue, there is likely to be an alternative decree on this issue (28), Jason Erfin, (28), Jason Erfin, (28), Jason Erfin, (28 years old) Jason Jihan said that both Irvin and BBEZ are likely Irvin and Gatewwood for WBEZ, Jason Erson (28 years old will be likely to everyone
Getwood said that the mayor's office is not interested in an alternative to any revised component.
“We are not interested in a change in the curfew. What concerns us is to maintain people's safeness and stop the trends from the transformation of violence or occurrence,” said Getwood.
Getwood said the mayor's office has no practical definition or a way to characterize a “teenage acquisition”. However, a large group of youth is usually upgraded by social media by announcing the “direction” newsletter.
Hopkins's proposal will determine such an event as “a gathering of 20 or more people in a public place for the purpose of engaging in criminal behavior or is likely to lead to a criminal offer or may cause an unreasonable risk in public health, safety, peace or wheel.”
In this case, the provincial commander or the police supervisor can create an immediate roaming ban. It is not clear how the police will determine the geographical area where the curfew applies.
Civil rights lawyers who spoke to WBEZ said that the proposal is like the violations of potential constitutional rights.
“This suggestion is not shockingly constitutional, and it is absolutely what we know helps actually reduce the accidents of youth who participate in any kind of illegal behavior,” said Sheila Bidi, a professor of clinical law at North Western University. “It would offer the city a great legal responsibility that was already a year.”
Bidi and others said that part of this issue is that the proposal will require police officers to try to expect whether the gathering is likely to be “likely to lead to” criminal activity, without any specific criteria clearly – leaving the door open for racial bias and stereotypes.
“Basically, what allows it is that something like this has been announced, and now he has a police officer to go to any teenager, stop them, talk to them, and possibly arrest them,” said Amanda Yarroso, a member of the National Lawyers Syndicate who represent clients who were arrested during the protests.
“It is difficult to know what to do and defend your rights in this type of meeting as an adult, but not to mention a teenager.”
Regardless of constitutional questions, opponents argue that CPD has already has a large number of tools at their disposal to deal with crowds, such as dispersion or laws against uncontrolled behavior.
“This looks like if the police are a hammer and the ability to impose a kind of potential criminal penalties are a nail, we look at a position where there are already 15 nails on the plane, and we say that we need to add sixteen,” said Charlene Grace, a senior political adviser to the Cook Cookie General Attorney. “This does not really seem a sincere assessment of the reasons or solutions to anything that is happening now.”
Hopkins did not respond to an interview about constitutional concerns about his proposal.
Ervin and other supporters of the decree said that allowing the sector animals to expect whether the event will turn violence – then the curfew – is supposed to be a preventive tool, to disperse the crowds before they go out of control.
But he confessed to the original proposal – which he signed – made constitutional concerns.
“Nobody wants to criminalize young people, while at the same time, we want to try to maintain the system,” Erfin said. “We will achieve a balance between the two in the end.”
Maria and Alkalb al -Kabbal cover the government and politics of WBEZ.
