Will Rahm's 'Wraparound' Strategy Bring Down Chicago's Soaring Murder Rate?

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Facing criticism concerning Chicago's soaring homicide rate thus far this year, Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday announced a new "wraparound" crime-fighting strategy on the eve of his one-year anniversary as the city's mayor.

The strategy, Emanuel explained alongside Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy in a church in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood, aims to follow crackdowns on gang-infested areas of the city with city services, such as street light repairs, graffiti removal, street and vacant lot cleanups and job training, CBS Chicago reports.

"It is a coordinated strategy. Rather than spreading the peanut butter too thin across the city, concentrating it when you clear an area of a gang so it's not just cleared temporarily and ... two days later, the gangs are back," the mayor said, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

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