Town President
Betty Loren-Maltese

Cicero's convicted and mobbed-up mayor was in the forefront of attacking gangs. She used a loitering ordinance and other policies, while filling her pockets in the best tradition of Chicago's Outfit. The words below are from a letter she wrote published in the Cicero Police Department Street Gang Awareness Handbook.

Dear Residents, The Town of Cicero has recently increased its efforts to eliminate gang crime from our neighborhoods, but no anti-crime effort will ever suceed without the help of the honest, hard working citizens who stand behind their police department. The Cicero Police Department cannot be everywhere, but our citizens are everywhere. We will catch and prosecute gang criminals. We have even taken action to remove active gang members form their homes and to keep them from gathering publicly in groups to cause trouble. But to help catch criminals and reduce the nuicansce activities of gang members, we need your help.

You can help reduce gang crime in your neighborhood by reading the preceding material and reporting gang activity to the confidential police hotline. Each complaint will be followed up by the Cicero Police Deaprtment and no one will ever learn the identity of the source. We cannot solve crimes if they are never reported.

The most important lesson to learn in our Gang Awareness Handbook is the signs that will alert you to gang activity by your children or grandchildren. Learn the signs and stop their involvement before we lose another child to gang violence.

From gangresearch.net to Betty: Who will alert us to the signs of criminal activity from our public officials?