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Dear Neighbors,<\/p>\n
As many of you know, \u2018Shutdown the Magnificent Mile \u2013 Black Lives Matter,\u2019 is a planned protest set to occur on Saturday, August 29 at 5:00pm.<\/strong> My\u00a0office has received a number of inquiries from residents and Property Managers about this event. At this point in time,\u00a0the Chicago Police Department\u00a0has indicated there is no significant, actionable intelligence that this will be a large gathering, according to open-source social media.<\/strong><\/p>\n Please note that, while this protest is scheduled to occur in the 42nd Ward,\u00a0Aldermanic approval is not required for these types of demonstrations, as the\u00a0right to peaceful protests is protected by the First Amendment.<\/strong><\/p>\n In an abundance of caution, City agencies and the Chicago Police Department (CPD) will be relying upon its all-hands-on-deck neighborhood protection\u00a0plan. CPD will be implementing other strategies to protect the area as needed and plan to have high visibility with hundreds of officers downtown starting\u00a0Thursday night. Details regarding the five core strategies are below.<\/p>\n In the event it is needed<\/strong>, the Department will deploy officers from the impacted District, the Critical Incident Response Team, and the Community Safety\u00a0team to the affected location. Each officer will be given a specific block to protect.<\/p>\n Additionally, City resources – including Streets and Sanitation vehicles – will be mobilized to assist CPD in maintaining control of the area through tactics\u00a0such as traffic control. These resource deployments will ensure CPD has adequate coverage to protect businesses and residents.<\/p>\n In an effort to leverage neighborhood leadership, CPD\u2019s Community Policing team is partnering with local community, faith-based and business leaders\u00a0to conduct weekly operation meetings to improve public-private coordination and further prepare for potential incidents. This effort will also include full\u00a0integration of the business community in the Office of Emergency Management and Communications\u2019 Summer Operations Center.<\/p>\n Additionally, CPD will engage in more proactive communications with not only businesses but also with communities to ensure that they have up-to-date\u00a0information on potential threats so that they are positioned to discourage and prevent such activity.<\/p>\n CPD\u2019s Crime Prevention and Information Center (CPIC) has formed a specialized twenty person team to focus on around-the-clock robust review of\u00a0open source social media activity that could indicate plans for looting. This will include ongoing key term searches as well as review of relevant pages or\u00a0accounts that have been used to organize such activity previously.<\/p>\n This proactive monitoring will provide crucial intel so that CPD is aware of planned activity at the earliest time possible and can appropriately respond\u00a0and shut it down.<\/p>\n If other looting actions occur, CPD has created a partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department has formed a special Task\u00a0Force of Detectives to specifically manage looting cases to ensure that those who loot are held accountable. This Task Force is already reviewing video\u00a0camera footage and other evidence to identify perpetrators and develop strong cases against them.<\/p>\n More than\u00a0100 people have been arrested<\/a>\u00a0since earlier this month and the Task Force continues to identify and arrest individuals involved. The Task\u00a0Force on looting will work in close partnership with the CCSAO to ensure that individuals are held accountable for their actions. CCSAO has offered their\u00a0assistance to ensure that CPD is able to bring appropriate charges and are fully prosecuted.<\/p>\n Illinois State Police will be deployed to shut down areas of access to the city in an emergency, and Cook County Sheriff will be immediately deployed to\u00a0neighborhoods to assist in violence reduction efforts.<\/p>\n Furthermore, the Mayor\u2019s Office is drafting a new looting ordinance for consideration at the September City Council meeting which will create a new\u00a0municipal citation providing CPD much greater flexibility in prosecuting cases and in confiscating cars and other tools used in acts of looting.<\/p>\n CPD is actively partnering with city agencies to deploy new and enhanced ways to shut down geographies\u2014including parts of the downtown core\u2014in\u00a0the event of another looting incident. These tactics include blocking and disabling vehicles as well as creating new hardened cityscapes (such as\u00a0bollards and improved concrete structures) to limit movement.<\/p>\n Residents may notice\u00a0some of these precautionary actions already in place<\/strong>. Concrete barricades and other deterrents will be placed around the\u00a0downtown area that can be easily moved by the City to block streets if needed. The City will be practicing these strategies around the City beginning this\u00a0week and through the summer.<\/p>\n Additionally, the City continues to deploy more than 100 infrastructure assets from the Department of Transportation (CDOT), the Department of Streets\u00a0and Sanitation (DSS) and the Department of Water Management (DWM), who are working in concert with the Chicago Police Department to protect local\u00a0commercial corridors.<\/p>\n I encourage residents to plan ahead if you will be traveling in the area on Saturday and stay tuned to Reilly Reports for more information. To receive\u00a0emergency alerts for updates on street closures and public transportation, subscribe to Chicago\u2019s text or email alert system at\u00a0NotifyChicago.org<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0follow OEMC on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n Brendan Reilly<\/p>\n President Pro Tempore<\/p>\n Alderman, 42nd Ward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alderman Reilly Reports \u00a08\/26\/2020 Dear Neighbors, As many of you know, \u2018Shutdown the Magnificent Mile \u2013 Black Lives Matter,\u2019 is a planned protest set to occur on Saturday, August 29 at 5:00pm. My\u00a0office has received a number of inquiries from residents and Property Managers about this event. At this point in time,\u00a0the Chicago Police Department\u00a0has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-14-at-3.56.13-PM-1024x517.png\")
<\/p>\nRapid and Agile Resource Deployment<\/h3>\n
Stronger Community Partnerships<\/h3>\n
Enhanced Use of Technology and Data Analytics<\/h3>\n
Robust Legal Action<\/h3>\n
Integrated and Faster Approach to Geographic Lockdowns<\/h3>\n