Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) on Monday explained her belief that much of the city’s skyrocketing wave of carjackings can be explained as the byproduct of boredom experienced by students who are relegated to remote learning amid school shutdowns.

“We started seeing this rise in cases in 2020, and I’ll be frank and say in Chicago, there was a correlation that we believe between remote learning and the rise in carjacking,” she said during a news conference. Lightfoot continued her explanation:

Having talked to states attorneys who are dealing with these cases in juvenile court and others, a lot of parents went to work during the day thinking their teenagers were logged on for remote learning only to find something else. And I ask, ‘is there some new market for stolen cars?’ and unfortunately, the answer was no, that for many of these kids, some of whom had no prior involvement in the criminal justice system this was pure boredom.