[Beat downs] have been skipping through the city. [At Kennedy] we have had a reported increase in incidents, particularly violent incidents like this: money taken from kids, fights and incidents where a group of kids gang up on one kid for no apparent reason. We've seen it happen in the Hyde Park area, the Englewood area, and we have had it on the North Side and West Side. When these incidents pop up, we take a no-nonsense approach. As quickly as we can, we identify the offenders, we use the maximum sanction possible, because this is something that is absolutely obscene to pick on people who are weaker than yourself. Andres Durbak