Chicago police to offer bounty for crooks with guns [View all]

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Crooks could start ratting on other crooks anonymously for cash in a program the Chicago Police Department plans to launch in the next few months to take guns off the street.

Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said similar programs were in place when he was the police chief in Newark, N.J., and the head of operations for the New York Police Department.

“The result is that we got a lot of guns from people who were carrying guns illegally,” he said.

The program, called Gunstoppers, will allow people to make anonymous telephone calls to the police about people who have guns. The tipsters will receive a partial code from the police.

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