Operation Safe Summer

===Chicago Police Plan to Flood High-Crime Areas In 'Battle Dress'===
==Background== 
* May 2006 Mayor Daley on Wednesday ordered police "in battle dress" to use roadside safety checks, dog searches and high-tech license plate readers to establish an unprecedented weekend presence in high-crime neighborhoods. 
* The Chicago Police Department is already saturating high-crime neighborhoods with its Targeted Response Units... 
* Beginning June 2 and continuing every Friday and Saturday night in June, July and August, they plan to step it up a few notches. Officers from the Targeted Response Unit and Special Operations Section will be dressed in black battle fatigues and flak jackets. They'll be backed up by command vans and light trucks. 
* "Operation Safe Summer" also has another element: roadside safety [sic] checks in neighborhoods plagued by gang violence in partnership with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff's Department.
==Links==
* http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=30644 Sun Times coverage.
* Police