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Chicago police face staffing CRISIS after DEADLY weekend shootings · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: So, a deadly weekend in Chicago, as 41 people are
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  Speaker 1: shot and three people are killed. President Trump sounding off, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: these numbers are becoming normalized. It is out of control.
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  Speaker 1: The city will die if the federal government, a fine-tuned
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  Speaker 1: crime-fighting machine, is not invited in by the mayor or
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  Speaker 1: governor to help. I am awaiting the call. The violence
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  Speaker 1: coming just days after Mayor Brandon Johnson established a new
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  Speaker 1: Office of Gun Violence Reduction.
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  Speaker 2: The new office will work in concert with those on
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  Speaker 2: the front lines that are part of this fight. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to work with our Chicago police officers and our
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  Speaker 2: community violence intervention partners while enabling the mayor's office of
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  Speaker 2: community safety to continue advancing its mission of keeping our
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  Speaker 2: community safe.
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  Speaker 1: Johnson is also requiring companies seeking Chicago city contracts to
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  Speaker 1: disclose leadership diversity data and ties to ICE. Let's bring
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  Speaker 1: in retired Chicago Police Department Chief of Detective Eugene Roy. Eugene,
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  Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining the program. You know Chicago well.
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  Speaker 1: This story is not new, but the response to what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, cutting the police department, there's—I mean, when you
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  Speaker 1: look at the data right now, they're about over 1,000
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  Speaker 1: cops short, and they aren't changing their philosophy, right?
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  Speaker 3: No, not at all. And actually, that number is closer
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  Speaker 3: to 2,000 than 1,000. We have a mayor who is
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  Speaker 3: basically MIA. There's a lot of factors here. We have
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  Speaker 3: the shortage of the police. There's definitely an anti-law enforcement
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  Speaker 3: climate in Chicago, as there are in other major blue cities.
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  Speaker 3: We've had eight years, eight years of a progressive anti-police prosecutor. Thankfully,
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  Speaker 3: she was voted out of office. We now have a
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  Speaker 3: new prosecutor who is more inclined to take us down
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  Speaker 3: the path of common-sense, legitimate law enforcement. One of the
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  Speaker 3: biggest problems that we have here in Chicago, obviously, the
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  Speaker 3: political climate and the Safety Act. The police go out
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  Speaker 3: and arrest dangerous, violent criminals, and they're back out on
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  Speaker 3: the street in 24 hours after they have a preliminary
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  Speaker 3: hearing before— a bond hearing before a judge. That's crazy. You're
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  Speaker 3: putting the sharks back in the pool.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Detective, it is crazy. And there's such a
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  Speaker 1: focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI. But the victims
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  Speaker 1: that are being gunned down every single weekend are black
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  Speaker 1: kids and brown kids. And there's no justice for them
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  Speaker 1: at all. When you look at the numbers of the
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  Speaker 1: shooting incidents for this year, we're almost the same as
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  Speaker 1: last year. And the year isn't even over yet.
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  Speaker 3: No, the summer isn't even over yet. This is crazy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, one of the most telling things about this,
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  Speaker 3: you know, talk about the political climate here, is where
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  Speaker 3: was the leadership on Monday after all of this happened
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend? There was no leadership. There was a
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  Speaker 3: press conference about requiring companies that want to do business
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  Speaker 3: with the city to meet DEI quotas. That's not leadership.
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  Speaker 3: And in the absence of leadership, violence is going to
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  Speaker 3: continue to flourish. That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: Detective, I want to bring you another story and just
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  Speaker 1: a quick warning for our audience. Some of what you're
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  Speaker 1: about to see may be disturbing. Crimes in blue cities
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  Speaker 1: are running rampant. Here in New York City, a woman
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  Speaker 1: with a record of mental health issues randomly stabs two
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  Speaker 1: people in the city in Times Square, broad daylight, killing
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  Speaker 1: one before being shot dead by police. How important is
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  Speaker 1: this to have enough police on the ground to avoid
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  Speaker 1: situations like this?
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  Speaker 3: It's critical, especially in New York City. New York City
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  Speaker 3: has become a target for everybody over the past 30
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  Speaker 3: years now. You have to have enough people. You have
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  Speaker 3: the downtown there. You have, what, there must be a
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  Speaker 3: million people downtown. You need to have an adequate police
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  Speaker 3: presence to deter crime, deter incidents of this type, And
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, when that deterrence doesn't work and
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  Speaker 3: something bad does happen, you have enough officers on hand
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  Speaker 3: to respond immediately, control the scene, make sure that everybody
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  Speaker 3: is safe, summon medical aid, and take care of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: process the crime scene and get things back to normal.
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  Speaker 3: You have to have those numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just found it so concerning. I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: some of the commentary online. And all of the criticism...
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  Speaker 1: was at the cops after asking the suspect to drop
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  Speaker 1: the knife. And then they use something less lethal. They
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  Speaker 1: try to use the taser. And she charges them and
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  Speaker 1: tries to stab them. And, of course, they have to
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  Speaker 1: use the lethal force. But she asked for it at
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  Speaker 1: that point. And they're not praising these cops. They're condemning them.
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  Speaker 1: So we just live in an upside-down world, Detective. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much for joining the program.
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  Speaker 3: My pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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