When you’ve got blatant crime, you need brutal honesty in dealing with it - you won’t find that in even the local MSM.
Point one - the term “flash mob” has ambiguous connotations: the punks who ransacked those stores don’t spend their weekends gathering at the Daley Center for impromptu renditions of Handel’s “Messiah”. If the jerks in the newsroom can’t come up with a catchy term for these criminals, they should at least call them what they are - organized gangs of thieves.
Point two - this stuff has been going on for years, not just in Chicago but all over the country. To date, of dozens of cases reported with videos, I haven’t seen one case perpetrated by a gang of Hispanics or gang of white trash - there’s a pattern in the ethnicity of the perps that dare not be mentioned by the press. So at least instead of interviewing a bunch of whitebread yuppie types about these crimes, maybe the news readers might ask some of the community leaders in the local black community what they think of this stuff.
And finally, Sports Authority: hire some guards with dogs to hang out at the entry points. Dogs are great with decent customers of any race, but can be really intimidating to the kind of jerkweeds who pull off this sort of heist, especially when those dogs sense something isn’t right.
That's why we should call them "rob mobs" instead.