Po-po in Chicago arrested an 11-year-old for attempting to carjack a woman just before 4am on Monday.
Want to talk about the breakdown of the family: an armed 11-year-old boy out & about at 4am in the morning.
Po-po say the boy pulled a gun on a woman and demanded her car.
The boy was arrested a short time later around the block.
He’s now facing a felony charge of aggravated attempted vehicular hijacking with a firearm and will appear in juvenile court.
Fox 32 Chicago reports that the city’s police department reports that the “average carjacker is 15 to 25 years old, and frequently police find out it’s not their first time being caught in a stolen ride.”
"There’s only 20% of the cases where the individuals are being arrested," said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. "So you don’t know who that other 80% is, in that 20% there’s a disproportionate number of juveniles involved in it."
From January through June 20th of 2021, there were 756 carjackings in Cook County. For that same time period in 2022, there’s been 834 carjackings.
Sheriff Dart says he’s frustrated with seeing repeat juvenile offenders.
"If there is a carjacking, for example, and the juvenile is not going to be incarcerated while the case is being decided — definitely need to have home monitoring," said Dart."