CLEVELAND — Cleveland Police Chief Annie Todd held a press conference Wednesday with the latest on the department's new initiative aimed at curbing vehicle break-ins and other quality-of-life crimes that have surged in recent months across the city.

Todd was joined by the commanders of all of the city's five police districts at the briefing held at Saucy Brew Works on Detroit Avenue.

"One of the things we've seen over the course of about a month is a substantial increase in car break-ins in neighborhoods just like this where we're here today," she explained. "What we're finding from video that we've seen is groups of young people that are driving around -- sometimes, or a lot of times, in stolen vehicles -- and they're going through these neighborhoods and they're just breaking car wi

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