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A 19-year-old, not a minor. then the story went to perhaps to release the video would affect the investigation that is ongoing. right around that time a few weeks back i received an internal memo from a top staff member who indicated that there was a racial component to this decision to not release not only the videos but the memos started with a discussion of not releasing the crime data. rob: let me read what bart actually released. they say the tapes of the crime, releasing them would unfairl...

Assigned here from the atf and were thankful for that, but we can use more. >> reporter: not waiting for federal help, the city is investing heavily in new technology aimed at outsmarting criminals. specially designed computers log every crime and then adjust to what is happening by the second while using crime data from the last ten years to help predict areas of concern. each color on the screen gives officers a different warning or direction. a network of 35,000 cameras watches over the city ...

>> reporter: the city is investing heavily in new technology. especially designed computers log every crime of whats happening to the second after using crime data to help pick out areas of concern. a network of 35,000 cameras watches over the city and sensors listen for gunshots the second they happen. >> so you see here eight rounds were detected. we can play the audio to hear what those sounds actually sound like. >> it can speed up response times, sometimes helping police get to crime scenes...

>> announcer: "the oreilly factor," the number one cable news show for 16 years andhe counting. >> bill: thanks for staying with us. im bill oreilly. this evening, we begin a new segment called "law & order." where have i heard that before? all right, nbc, sue us. each week, we will analyze interesting criminal cases throughout the usa. we begin with a federal report on the chicago police department. former chicago police superintendent gary mccarthy on "the contributing factor" podcast disputes...

>> announcer: "the oreilly factor," the number one cable news show for 16 years and counting. >> bill: things are staying with us, this evening, we begin a new segment called "law & order." where have i heard that before? all right, nbc, sue us. each week, we both analyze interesting criminal cases throughout the usa. we begin with a report on the chicago. former chicago police superintendent gary mccarthy on the contributing factor podcast disputes that. >> department of justice comes to chicag...

>> i heard, like, a lot, a lot of, like bone and stuff. i saw blood on his shirt. i thought i wouldnt see him again. >> reporter: their downstairs neighbor was playing video games by a window. >> when i heard the gunshots, i got on the floor. my mom grabbed me. she put me in a room so to hide me. >> reporter: they were lucky to survive the hail of bullets. but so many children are not. cnn analyzed the prolice crime data. one child is killed in chicago every week on average, a figure thats been ...

In one big city presincf. we feel under siege and we dont feel like getting out of our cars. >> hes talking about the ferguson affect right there and that caught the attention of the president who critized james comey over there. >> this was an amazing moment. the president of the united states criticizing the fbi director. the fbi is reintoesatory of crime data and no official that knows more about crime and for obama to criticize him like that shows how the president is. >> are you saying that...

Wrong. thats why its surprising that hes doubled down and ben carson has joined him today. >> listen, donald trumps reactive on twitter. theres a lot of tweeting and retweeting. we also know he retweeted what turned out to be this fake racially charged crime data about black on black crime from a group that doesnt exist. the retweet highlights a photograph of a dark-skinned man wearing a bandanna, dark shirt and military-style pants and claiming the list of crime statistics that includes six lin...

We are always told crime is increasing but its not. the fbi just released the most recent crime data. crime has been dropping for years despite the recent claim that crime is up. the police are backing off due to a war on the police. crime continues to fall. the public doesnt know the truth says criminologist james allen fox. its really true that people dont know. >> people get their perceptions of whats going on with crime based on the latest grisly story, later shooting or something on 8:11 ne...

Where we are right now in san francisco is a city of over 100,000 people called richmond california. for years its been a city plagued with violence. 2009 crime data listed it as the sixth most dangerous city in all of america. a city that for the time a murder scene from that year could be clearly scene in the satellite photos. then an incredible turn around. homicides were down. don to the lowest numbers since 1980. much of the credit is given to the richmond police chief chris magnus in his u...