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Control for 50 years and we have more murders than ever maybe its not working. is there any reconsideration of those laws? >> not really but we take more guns off the street in chicago than l.a. and new york combined. l.a. had 183 murders so far this year in stats that i could find. new york has had 154. what we have here is a gang problem thats different than other cities. we have factions. one big gang thats bken in and numerous little factions and they shoot each other. >> interesting. i want...

Streets safer. murders are up in the city this year. the violence is first and foremost a gang problem, the mayor says. some visitors had to wait two hours to get inside. people had to line up around the block. the observatory is opened to the public this weekend and is highlighted by the panoramic views of new york city and beyond. its 7,600 feet. tallest skyscraper in the western hemisphere. i was on -- i was just there. you watch the skyline grow in new york city from the 1500s until today....

Jobs is a facet of this larger issue. richard is completely wrong on the jobs and so is the executive vp of the orioles who blamed this on jobs. baltimore has a gang problem crime and drug problems. they have not dealt with those issues. the jobs issue right now are the people who have their rowhouse burned who cant go to work or the people who had their businesses burned out where they cannot work. to resolve this problem the community leaders have a responsibility. they have elected this leade...

Now. you see them now disbursing. maybe the police are getting closer but you see theyve been -- i assume thats cvs pharmacy basically trashed. for the last 45 minutes or so theyve been running in or out. hard to believe this is going on as i keep say income a a major american city. jeffrey toobin is with us our legal analyst. this group called the black it guerrilla family. >> a long-standing prison gang actually started in california but they took over the boston city correctional center. the ...

Other way because the fact that the people are dehumanized you talk about them in that way. the cycle works so as long as we have policies like this, those songs will continue to happen and what we do to distance ourself from the actual policy is, you know, when it pops up we say, oh, no, not me but, you know as we saw with the report this funds actual governments. >> you say the residents of ferguson do not have a police problem. they have a gang problem that the gang operates under legal sanct...

Is, you know, when it pops up, we say, oh, no, not me, not me, but, you know as we saw with the report this funds actual governments. >> you say the residents of ferguson do not have a police problem. they have a gang problem that the gang operates under legal sanction makes no difference. it is a gang nonetheless. there is no other word to describe an armed band of collection agents. >> thats exactly what it is. i mean i -- people think of law as like, you know, like the tablets of moses descen...

Night. >> clearly the gang problem is so large, no part of the prison is safe from the politics. before officer garcia and the igi staff consider putting former gang members together on the sny, they must be convinced dropouts are sincere in their desire to leave the gang lifestyle behind. after the debriefing interviews have been conducted and the inmates have been approved, they move into the integrated yard program. >> this is phase two. what they have to do, is come over to this yard. its an...

Status for the rest of the night. >> clearly the gang problem is so large, no part of the prison is safe from the politics. before officer garcia and the igi staff consider putting former gang members together on the sny, they must be convinced dropouts are sincere in their desire to leave the gang lifestyle behind. after the debriefing interviews have been conducted and the inmates have been approved, they move into the integrated yard program. >> this is phase two. what they have to do, is com...

Conversation as people talk about expedited deportation or -- how quickly can we get these kids out of here. these children have real claims to asylum. according to the law, and they should be able -- theyre entitle to go before some magistrate and make their claim that they are entitle to assue him because theyll be killed if they return to their country. >> look, these three countries, honduras, the most violent country in the world, el salvador has a massive guerrilla and gang problem -- i sh...

More for economic reasons because you can see from where they are coming from, they are coming from the highlands, from the rural areas. those are very very dirt poor communities that the children are leaving. honduras and el salvador on the other hand, they are just having a terrible gang problem. deportation of gang members back in the 1990s. you dont see that in nicaragua. they didnt have that group of deportees resettle in that country and become organized crime as i understand cats. >> obvi...