Exporting Crime

It's what Chicago seems to be good at and by golly, we're going to spread it everywhere:

• Three Chicagoans arrested with two children for shoplifting outside Cleveland could be connected to other thefts there and in Chicago, authorities say.
  

  Diana Burton, 64, her son Donald Burton, 37 and Amina Frye, 34 -- along with her two children ages 8 and 10 --- were captured on video Wednesday robbing a Macy's department store in Parma, a western suburb of Cleveland, police said.

  The children entered the store with Frye, who is believed to be Burton's girlfriend, and could be seen shoplifting merchandise, police said. When confronted by store security, "a physical altercation ensued while attempting to detain them inside the store," authorities said.

"Oliver Twist 2009."

And this one:

• Police departments across the western suburbs hope a series of arrests -- including two rings busted on the same day -- will put an end to a spike in residential burglaries that resulted in a tripling of break-ins in one town.
  
  The burglaries occurred mostly over the last month in towns like Berwyn, La Grange Park, Lyons, Riverside, Western Springs, River Forest, Forest Park and Downers Grove.
  
  [...] On Nov. 2, police from several towns working with Cook County's Major Case Assistance Team apprehended three alleged gang members in Forest Park. Police say they belonged to the Sin City Boys, a gang that operates out of Chicago and the near western suburbs.
  
  Riverside police Chief Tom Weitzel said one of the men revealed in a written statement that the gang was flooding the western suburbs with up to 25 youths to commit the burglaries.

We wonder if this isn't happening in formerly "quiet" areas of the city, too. Drop of 25 or more shorties and let them wreak havoc in quiet neighborhoods.