'Operation North Star' lasted 30 days in 10 cities: Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
made the list when the Justice Department picked cities with high levels of shootings and killings to target dangerous criminals.
"The Justice Department is committed to doing everything we can to protect communities from violent crime," said John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, plus additional law enforcement partners, announced Thursday the results of "Operation North Star" — a month long, high-impact initiative that teamed up federal, state and local forces to get the most violent criminals off the streets.
In the Chicago area, law enforcement made 156 arrests. The effort at times was dangerous, as shown by an arrest in Chicago’s Belmont-Cragin neighborhood on June 2nd,
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