Chicago smash-and-grabs have been on the rise, and there's a push for higher penalties and flexibility prosecuting organized retail theft rings.
"We get customers, they don't want to come here. They think we are in a war zone," Joe Abbas, general manager of Bentley Gold Coast, told the I-Team.
"Chicago is not a lawless city and you will be brought to justice," said Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown. Durkin is sponsoring legislation that would allow charges for organized retail theft to be brought where the crime took place, where the stolen goods were recovered or where the merchandise was resold.
"There's a greater organized scheme behind it sometimes tied to drug trafficking, gang activity, human trafficking," said Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul."I think there's a market for a lot of the goods that are being stolen," said Berlin. In DuPage County, violent crimes were on the rise for years, but last year armed robberies and burglaries went down according to the state's attorney's office.
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