(WBBM NEWSRADIO) – Because Chicago will be hosting the 2024 Democratic National Convention, police will no doubt be looking back at security plans for events like the NATO summit of 2012.
At police headquarters at 35th and Michigan, the security plan for the NATO summit is on file, along with a critique done afterward.
Former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy, who got generally good reviews for security during NATO, recommends the city look at that plan.
"The biggest thing that we certainly did right during NATO was, we were not confrontational,” he told WBBM Newsradio on Tuesday.
"When I got my first briefing 10 months before NATO, we were coming out with our helmets and batons and our 'riot gear,' and I said, 'Well, that's great if we want to cause a riot. But let's try to prevent the riot.'
"And we came out with the checkerboard hats and the normal Chicago Police uniforms. And we stayed that way until such time as things ratcheted up."
What's changed since 2012? McCarthy says there are more mass shootings.
So, police may be putting more officers on rooftops and doing more monitoring of social media, he said.
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