Chicago will step up its efforts to diminish violent crime in the city, in the form of a specialized new unit that will use federal law as a crime-fighting weapon.
After a violent Easter weekend where 35 people were wounded, the youngest being an 11-year-old girl who was shot while leaving a park with a group of friends on Sunday evening, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said: “We’re all tired of it,” McCarthy told NBC Chicago.