Chicago police to offer bounty for crooks with guns

[petronius]

8. It does seem like there's some potential for abuse here - the crook/criminal

attribute disappears as the article progresses - so I hope there's something built in to prevent harassment reports of legal owners (or perhaps some consideration on whether that was a problem in Newark and other places). More importantly, of course, Chicago needs to modify its treatment of legitimate owners at the same time it focuses on crooks.

But that said, a tip-line like this is a good idea in principle: turn criminals against one another, create a little FUD in the criminal community, and retain the ability to prosecute those criminals with guns (unlike at buy-backs)...