What the carjacking wave says about American policing
It is a fairly easy crime to get away with
IN A CITY with an average of over two murders a day, the killing of eight-year-old Melissa Ortega in the Little Village neighbourhood of Chicago in late January still caused shock. The girl, who had come to Chicago from Mexico with her family less than a year before, was struck by bullets apparently intended for a young man emerging from a shop near where she and her mother were walking. The 16-year-old boy who has been charged with the murder, Emilio Corripio, was on probation, having pleaded guilty to two charges of carjacking and being in possession of a stolen vehicle.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Crime and no punishment”
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