In the past few weeks, we have seen organized looting in Chicago coordinated through social media. These lootings have nothing to do with protests or politics. They cannot be justified under any circumstances.
It is time to clearly call them out for what they are –criminals engaged in criminal activities. The perpetrators need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Most of the victims of the looting are small businesses serving neighborhood residents. Many of the small business owners in Chicago are minorities and immigrants. They employ local people and in many cases provide services that are not easily available in impoverished neighborhoods. Even larger national chains like Walgreens and Target, who were beginning again to go back to the less affluent areas of Chicago, were looted multiple times. I will always remember the TV interview of an older African-American woman on a walker wondering how she will get her medicines when the nearest two Walgreens or CVS pharmacies were shuttered because of looting.
It is now imperative that the leaders of the minority communities in Chicago speak out and condemn the looters. It is time for the local people to be unafraid and clearly identify the looters because they live among us. This they can only do with the support and protection of our law enforcement authorities. It is not the time to “defund” the police but actually work with them to bring back law and order. This needs to happen concurrently with efforts to bring accountability, transparency, fairness, and professionalism among the police.
As a resident and business owner in Chicago, this is my plea to our political leaders —if you cannot guarantee safety to me and my family, I have the choice of living somewhere else and working “virtually” from a location other than Chicago. I am sure I am echoing the sentiments of many, many Chicagoans who do not want to leave the city we love.
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