Mayor Lightfoot’s controversial gang asset seizure plan advances
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s controversial plan to fight crime by seizing street gang members’ assets advanced Thursday despite continued condemnation of the idea from some aldermen and other critics.
Lightfoot’s proposed ordinance could allow judges or court officers to impose fines as high as $10,000 for each “street gang-related” offense and seize “any property that is directly or indirectly used or intended for use in any manner to facilitate street gang-related activity.” [Most read] Woman dragged from car and restrained on the ground by Chicago police in line to share $1.6 million settlementAnd it allows the city to seek fines up to $30,000 against people convicted of illegal gun possession.
“We are not talking ... about low-level drug dealers on the street,” John O’Malley, Lightfoot’s deputy mayor for public safety, said Thursday. South Side Ald. Roderick Sawyer, 6th, said the measure seems aimed only at minorities who form gangs with people they know, rather than wealthier high-level drug dealers who aren’t affiliated with a “street organization.”
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