City’s Top Cop Vows To Improve Community Policing, Asks West Siders To Work Together – Block Club Chicago

Neighbors asked about plans to keep children and young people safe in and around schools after three shootings targeting Chicago Public Schools students in the past few weeks. Police Supt. Larry Snelling said police are “doing their best” and has deployed community violence intervention specialists to certain areas, but community members need to step in. “A lot of these young people who are being murdered are engaged in acts that lead to retaliatory behavior,” Snelling said. “If we don’t hold them accountable first, the streets will."