Third term. One can only hope that a new mayor will bring peace and healing to a city in desperate need of both. Heres our town hall from chicago. [ applause ] good evening, everyone, im Laura Ingraham and welcome to the first ever the ingraham angle town hall. Now id like to thank the city of chicago and the audience for hosting us for an incredibly important discussion. Chicago is one of the truly Great American cities, spectacularly beautiful in the summer and winter. But in recent years Gang Violence has reached epidemic proportions and a level of violence that is unacceptable for anywhere in america. The city is on pace for more than 2,000 shootings this year which will mark the fifth Straight Year its topped that grim mark. Just so you get some perspective, since 2011, the year that rahm Emanuel Took Office as mayor there have been over 4,000 murders in this city. Thats more than the 34,481 killed in action from 2003 to 2010. And its not just the level of violence in the city thats the problem, its the lack of justice. According to an analysis conducted by the washington post, Chicago Police have made an arrest in only about 27 of homicides since 2010. Thats the lowest rate of any city the post examined. For nonfatal shootings its even worse. The university of Chicago Crime Lab tells us just 10 of shootings resulted in arrest in 2014 and by 2016, the latest year available, that number had dropped to just 5 . The unsolved crimes undoubtedly fuel a vicious cycle of distrust between Law Enforcement and community. And no one is immune from this violence. Throughout the hour were going to talk to members of Law Enforcement, Community Activists, religious and political leaders as well as members of the audience to try and figure out why this tragedy is unfolding in chicago and how to stop it. Lets get started tonight with anthony napolitano, hes a form you Police Officer and the sole republican in the city council. Martin priebe who is a member of the fraternal order of police. And anthony lets start with you. This is so both heart breaking and infouriating. We have a world of violence across the globe, heart breaking stories every day. But as americans, i cant imagine we find this level of violence in a city as spectacular as chicago with its rich history, acceptable. What do we do . The biggest problem i think right now in the city of chicago is theyre not breaking it down into three groups of what is plaguing our city. Its you have an incredible amount of narcotics in the city of chicago. You have an enormous amount of guns on the street in 2018 alone, 5200 guns have been recovered. We have a sale of stolen merchandise, part of a criminal element on the street that is a multimillion dollar industry. Its not just gang bangers shooting each other is this this is a fight over territory and making money on the street right now. If you cant get to the street and say you got to stop the narcotics coming in in the boat loads and we have to get more of the guns off the streets then we have to realize that the criminal element is using the streets to sell stolen merchandise were never going to get ahead of the problem. Were over the 2,000 mark of the people shot in chicago already. And 375 homicides. I always say can you imagine how many of them missed . Laura kevin, the police have had their hands full with the level of violence. But you see the number of murders solved, suspects arrested and its a pretty small percentage compared to other cities as you saw in that analysis. Why . There are a couple reasons. The first reason is, first of all we have had 2,025 shootings in this city as of today. First of all, it started it didnt start yesterday. It started several years ago when they decided to underfund and underman the police department. We have we are instilled still 1,000 police short. Laura wait, youre 1,000 Police Officers short in the city of chicago today . We only have half of the detectives we need. We used to have 2,000 detectives. Laura how many now . Just about 1,000. Laura what is the reason for that . Youre going to have to ask the mayor rahm emanuel for that answer. He closed three police stations and two detective areas. We didnt do that. We have always at the f. O. P. Tried to interject our solutions to the problem but when it requires money were shut out. Our opinion doesnt count. Thats part of the problem. And that is what has to change. We certainly want to go out there and do the job that we were hired to do. But because they have decided to have more Police Oversight and accepted the aclu and their long stop carts because they had decided that were going to work 12 hour days and not allow people time off. That wears on Police Officers and that is what has contributed to the problems in this city. Laura lets go to Melanie Brown who prefers not to reveal her political party. Welcome. Thank you for having me. All right. So we know that all police arent bad. You know, but when some of the Police Officers hurt or community, then we feel like some of the other Police Officers should try to help the community because they should care what the community thinks about the police department. So i just wonder what happened to the Good Cop Bad Cop where theres one group of Police Officers we might be afraid of but the good cop, where they can share who did the murder, was there a crime or anything like that and we can get more crime solved for our community and help everyone. Laura going back to the issue of trust. Trust between the community and Law Enforcement. Law enforcement is supposed to keep people safe and when you call the police you want that level of trust and the police want you to trust them or they are not able to do their job either. Martin . As the writer in the group i would answer that by pointing to one statistic. The city of chicago has paid over 700 million in Police Misconduct cases. And many, many of these cases these claims against the police are bogus. And theyre used to push this narrative of Police Corruption that is quite often fraudulent and the city pays out on these and creates this industry of suing Police Officers that in turn lends itself to more Police Oversight. And even good Police Officers and i believe the overwhelming majority of them are good. I think when officers do something wrong its generally a mistake. But all officers now in chicago face an absolutely ludicrous level of oversight and potential lawsuits and criminal charges by a prosecutor that is clearly antipolice. And so this is one of the reasons that the police are unable to do the kind of Effective Police work that they want to do. Policing is an art. And the city is now set up in so many levels laura give us some examples. Lets say when you brandish your firearm for any particular reason do you have to write a report any time thats what theyre trying to do. Laura thats what rahm emanuel wants. One of our officers, they were trying to find he had done something wrong. The f. O. P. Dug our heels in and found out they were trying to hold secret investigations and not divulge the outcome to the officer which cleared him. They wanted to make sure that officers were found guilty. Thats unacceptable. I dont care if its a citizen, that theres a secret investigation going on or a Police Officer. People need to be treated fairly and Police Officers are not treated fairly. Laura you think its the accusation against the Police Officer, theyre presumed guilty . By the community. So theres distrust between the Community Police dont trust the accusations or no . It is the investigative body. All cases that involve shootings are sent to the to the federal to the fbi, and to the States Attorneys Office for prosecution. Laura what were getting at and its painfully obvious, when you is 1,000 detective deficit on a police force could be a lot of things. Is it money not allocated . Is it the pay is not enough . Is it demoralized police . Is it too dangerous and people feel like for the risk im taking im not getting much of a benefit. Why am i going to do this job in policing should be it is a noble profession but, anthony, you hear two Police Officers and they feel like oftentimes they feel like they can do no right but we have concerned citizens who say we need more of a collaboration here. Got to be able to fix this. I was a Police Officer, myself. I worked the street. I worked in the 15th district in austin as a Gang Enforcement officer. Ive done that job and built relationships on the street with other officers and there was an ability to work crime based on relationships. But in America Police are becoming an enemy and the neighborhoods are closing their doors. Snitches again stitches. Laura ive seen that tshirt. There is a concept of thin blue line between officers and theres a code and thats not true. The thin blue line is the officers that will take a bullet for each other. In the neighborhoods nobody wants to talk about what they saw but its a big element in the neighborhood where there is a lot of money being made on the street. You are hurting an enterprise on the street alone. Laura lets go to a republican with a question about federal involvement in chicago. Reed . So my question for the panelist is whether or not they support President Trumps previous calls if for National Guard to be sent to chicago and if so, what would the National Guard be able to do that local police cannot . Laura President Trump mentioned the National Guard in chicago and its been thrown around before. Talk. I certainly believe any time we have federal Law Enforcement agents theyre welcome. And i certainly have nothing against federal troops and im sure that the president meant that. As trying to help the city. I think what we need to do is make sure that politicians realize that they have to spend the money to hire Police Officers, hire the right Police Officers, make sure they are trained. Have a facility in which to train them and also be out there in the community. Weve removed our foot officers through the most of the city and we laura are they shutting down detective detective offices in these difficult neighborhoods, inglewood and so forth . They have closed some districts and whatnot. That has been the case. But, you know, i really couldnt say about the National Guard, you know. Laura to me, its like this is a local problem and for the most part has a local solution. I think its a bit of a myth to say that theres complete distrust in communities from the police. A lot of people call us. They rely on us. They want us to help them. A lot of it is the gangs. Most of the violence is Gang Violence. 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Well, we think this issue is of critical importance even if the Mayors Office does not and does not want to participate. But for more lets bring in jaymal greene who is running for mayor. Leshawn ford, a democrat and member of Illinois State house of representatives and Depaul University professor jason hill. Professor hill, i know you study these issues, seemingly retractable issues of a recurring cycle of violence. Today, as you see things now, is there hope for this city . I think there is hope. But i think the hope lies in strong leadership. And i think the hope lies in a change in governance. I think we have an incompetent mayor who is recalcitrant. I think corruption and violence are part of the political dna of the city. Laura what does that mean, part of the political dna . Chicago is the most corrupt city in the United States of america and has been for a long, long time and we have a mayor who assumed the mayorship and did nothing about it accept look the other way when bribes were being undertaken. And i think that a change of governance is really necessary. I think there are a couple of things that would make this city very, very difficult to attract businesses, for example, the high crime rate in the city is the number one issue that laura businesses dont want to move in to south or west side because, look, too much of a risk . Whole foods opened in inglewood and ran into a whole foods executive on the plane coming here. We opened up a store there, its not easy. Its not easy being in business there but we did it. We have a population in the city with a high crime rate. Laura but its overwhelmingly democrat. And representative ford. I think its 83 of the city voted for Hillary Clinton in the last election and 12 voted in President Trump. Take the parties out of it for a second. Its like if you have a bad basketball coach who doesnt win, you kick them out and get a new one. Why do we keep returning year after year after year to overwhelming liberal leadership in the city of chicago when it seems like its obviously not working for the people who need the most help . Thats a good question. Im one vote and my people need help in chicago. Black people need help if we want america to be the greatest it can be. We need stronger black leaders. We need a black mayor in chicago. Theres no way well be able to deal with the issues in chicago until you have a mayor that really understands the Critical Issues impacting the people in chicago. The black issue is the number one issue in the city of chicago. And until we have a mayor in this city that understands how to remedy those problems and understands fairness and equity and attacks those problems were going to continue to see problems like laura i mean youre basically having saying it has to be a black mayor. Thats wild thing to say. It could be an asian mayor that is able to heal wounds and get Police Together with Community Activists or black or white or im going to say we need a black mayor. I cant back down from that [applause] the last time we had a black mayor things were improving. White people are good and i want to work with white people. Laura im here and trying to figure it out. I have nothing against white people but what i do know is we have to work alongside blacks and whites. No one can really solve black people problems better than blacks. Reporter jaymal, it could be you. Youre 26, 27 . 23. Laura you have had your own issue running with the police. We dont have to go into it. It involved you getting into a dust up with a Police Officer and you pled down a misdemeanor. But youre the nextgeneration. You guys are going to have to solve this problem. What to do . Youre exactly right. Im from the communities and understand it. I saw people being shot in front of me hiding behind the bushes to hope that the gunman didnt see me. I experienced poverty, having to light candles because my mom couldnt pay the light bill and we need someone wh