The country. But while mandatory sentences are being scrutinized on the National Level one state is looking to expand the controversial bob thats the state of illinois of course the crux of the debate is playing out in one major city chicago the city has been no stranger to a whole host of gun and Gang Violence that seemingly growing more brand by the day art easel as long was on the streets of chicago brings us the story. Its known as the windy city be on the skyscrapers of downtown glance. Chicago is known for something pounds. Ryan. Some of these streets are described as war zones where violence is part of the media line. She joked. Though it is all about girls and one the fbi estimates there were five hundred murders here in chicago in two thousand to twelve alone more than any other city in the United States. That figure has given chicago the reputation as being americas murder capital. Most of the deaths are results of gun violence around here. Its no secret if you want a gun. You can get one. By the uniform again you know id love love this tree down and get it. You dont know for sure that the city of chicago was trying to change that by imposing a mandatory minimum law for gun offences under the law. Anyone caught with illegally possessing a gun would get a minimum three year sentence. It would have to serve eighty five percent of that. No exceptions. Maya lin record for an arms old lady. The grainy gone. Dalits of another old will carry these neighbors because theyre scared because they beat the laws that the city of chicago is not a deal cannot actually protect them the proposed line designed to get tough on crime. But experts say mandatory minimum sentence is simply dont work there is no reliable evidence that mandatory sentences will deter crime zero reliable evidence critics of mandatory minimum sentences for similar measures in the warrant around us. Mandatory minimum policies were enacted in nineteen eighty is americas prison population swelled up dramatically. Chicagos Cook County Jail is a prime example of every ten thousand inmates and the Cook County Jail making it the largest in the United States population reached its highest in sixty years and it keeps on growing our prison system is the most crowded under resourced isnt all that country. We got up forty nine thousand people in a system built for thirty two thousand with jails and prisons across the country filling up top level political leaders are re examining mandatory minimum was because the oftentimes generate been fairly long sentences the we disrespect for the system. So there is the astral travel. We were awakened in her ears and says because people are starting to look at the research perhaps thats why the mandatory minimum proposal is the same tops mini state lawmakers in illinois. The long pass is expected to add forty thousand inmates over a decade to an already crowded system. Seattle chicago unfortunately with a lot of improvements in its legacy of incarceration policy we have entire neighborhoods where people have grown up with our whole lives we dont panic at the Northwestern School of law says better alternatives include boosting Police Presence and in acting programs that help troubled youth. We sold them to work here in chicago. Im not promising interview with the younger people under twenty five who are most of the dying defendants in any camcorder. In america the goal would be keep people out of the jail cells that attack and more inmates and. In chicago has more on rte. Southern discuss this topic a little bit more and join via rt correspondent ms mok in a flashback from chicago ap so much for coming and liz. First ill talk about what the minimum since the sentencing law is right now as it stands the shell as it stands right now for the defences you can face the mandatory minimum of one year behind bars this line was extended time to three years so any offence he would be facing three years that is the mandatory minimum. Now add this being pushed by a chicago mayor from the manual the Police Commissioner and several victims of gun violence in chicago as the Sunken Island is a huge problem there its known as the murder capital of the United States five hundred murders in just one year people are sick of it politicians want lawmakers that one act like they are getting tough on crime doing something to address this done in sheer will not budge were seeing a lot of resistance of the band chicago and told that this is one of the most contentious issues. They have ever seen because athletes on that story at the fish got good deals are already flooded the system is already flooded exposed at four thousand people one billion dollars over the span of the decade and people there saying you know what made the prison is not the best alternative maybe we need to look elsewhere in order to solve this problem has done epidemic in our Society Church and in the midst of guns in elkhart easy to get and chicago. I will take a look at something briefly theres a new technology in which you can actually create your own don using three d printer it sounds kind of depressed. I appear to mean this isnt were not far from from seeing this and become aware that more commonplace of course brings up issues of regulation a keen eye to anyone getting done at this point. What can the answer is sitting on a st chicago and in and didnt have to venture too far out to the ramparts i havent signed the ritzy part of uganda Downtown Chicago and his rough neighborhood and i heard from people first and if that one guy and i know where to go i can get pretty much any kind and won nine over to talk to you its pretty fine grained and people know that if they wanted then they can get one so the question is on whether or not. I think yes regulation needs to happen but is telling people in prison and walk in with the key going to address this problem. I can tell you from being out there in the community that gets you a day in a place where crime is still lingering on a weird being to sell part of the un this atmosphere that communities and a girl up and the most infamous and you know the drug cartels that Gang Violence and is of the compass factions within factions. These people are not going to be the ones that are going to say ok on the nepal the father to drop drop their guns and be like this lies in place to come in and get rid of my guns on the worry is that this can actually speed up a larger group of people people that live in these rough neighborhoods that are carrying a gun not that they might not be on the rights to have it but theyre carrying one because they wanna feel safe in a very Dangerous Community and other theory is that that gail second of the flooded with people like that people that tomre not as a and thats the thing about me and care mandatory minimum was that it doesnt discriminate and whether your first time offender or more hardened criminal. You were in the face is mandatory minimum sentence on a long grey reporting was thank you so much. Rt course on islam new details are emerging about how a former Government Contractor and with stunning gained access to that froze of the nsa documents he would later be to the press according to new information obtained by reuters stunning meantime engaged in some very low tech methods to gather the classified documents those methods include persuading between twenty and twenty five of his colleagues to his band era bond ins and passwords. The only did so by the mad at those passwords were needed in order to conduct his job as a Computer Systems administrators the weeks that would ensue represent the worst breach of classified data and all sixty one years of the nsa is existence. But this revelation is just the latest look at the inn Adequate Security measures that were employed at the time. Last month. Reuters also reported that the nsa had failed to install the most up to date the anti leak somewhere at the hawaiian site where edwards night and had been working. Meanwhile warnings gathering. The news regarding glenn greenwald. Thats the journalist who broke this whole entire story. Were now learning to read alan grayson who has been one of the most vocal and is it creates sent a letter to attorney general eric holder. Last month seeking assurance that if greenwald were to come back to the us for a meeting with grace and he could do so with out being a rest day. He broke while bearing in mind that mr greenwald is a citizen of the us. Hed let me know whether the department of the justice of justice intends to bring charges against mr greenwald and whether the department of justice the department of Homeland Security or any other os is the federal government and cd key question our or prosecute mr green mile back in July Greenwald was set to testify before congress via video link from brazil where he currently lives but that hearing was later canceled in the market as the United States it would be the First Time Since the nsa documents were first week in june and to assist those revelations leaked customers have become more and more wary of Big Tech Companies like the rise and worried tnt. Its been revealed that they have forked over americans that idea to us by agencies. Once mom Internet Service provider resisting pressure to all of that. Its called access and an aunt an independent Company Based in utah. The on line. The cacti and has refused to turn over Customer Data out without a warrant our team maria point nine reports. His ideal data center and here we are taking an exclusive tore through one of the few of the companys standing up to the Us Government in the name of privacy but we do president will act very well pete ashdown is the owner of the exhibition included hanging Internet Service provider based in salt lake city. This tower hear handels most of our evening unlike most power players in silicon valley. Next mission the few states to get the nsa back door access to its networks the nineteen ninety eight exhibition has rejected a dot to dot the left Government House for more information stored on why conservatives like these. We dont share our information about our customers. Bp dont have a war of the majority of Law Enforcement requests ashdown says hes received and perfumes have been sick the next lucky accountability and necessary approval by a jot. This is actually an amiga since launching his company in nineteen ninety three. Ashdown says hes told no more than two Customer Data requests from the federal government was more like corey bring in customers with a small team of forty employees exhibition peterson thirty thousand customers who pay for Foundation Services like Internet Connectivity server location and the web or email hosting. Were you and your data out there. Soo ive seen and that the gap on all hands of that happening on our laps and he has been whats in store for us. The current climate of americas restraint surveillance matrix has been facilitated in part by verizon facebook and other giant corporations who spent the years secretly working with the nsa regulation government contracts and non monetary compensation are in my opinion the three reasons why theyre cooperating ironically utah is probably the most unlikely home for privacy champion. Roughly twenty seven miles away from x mission. Is the anna sees newly constructed one point five billion dollars data center. I think its a stain on the Tech Industry in utah all the nsa activities are a stain on american internet businesses. Because people dont trust to put their information. Stateside or ashdown has vowed to face jail time if thats whats needed to protect its customers from being monitored. What surprises this Fourth Amendment had the cake is that the data Companies Like google will promise to get to see. Very non i am rt you tell. And today freedom of information and tickets from all over the world will be gathering in sixteen different cities to participate in a week and has caught on the memory and interactive this year and sports. They will be working on conscience he started or contributed to you but never got to finish. Today no memory would have been sports is twenty seventh birthday sports was in an add on for noras he was heavily involved in the development of the web feed format rss the website framework when got time. In the social news site and read it. However it was also known as an outspoken as active as for transparency and its his work in every nap that ultimately led him to the charge that the Computer Fraud and abuse act where they see as eight eight. Its a piece of legislation many advocates are now calling palin a day. Take a look at what Peter Higgins of the Electronic Frontier foundation had to say about that and a bipartisan bill named after and that was before and the cfa day he spoke to our tea at the los angeles death khan back in august. The cfa was reading in the eighties in response to threats that word you know shown in movies. And so that you can imagine that the language that doesnt really reflect the way that people use computers today so our errands like those thirty tightens up a few sections of the cfa to make it better reflects the content of the legislators and id make it less of a small they can be used by prosecutors say as ad server dragnet. Of course after two years of struggling with federal prosecutors over his case sports tragically took his life in the wake of is that internet advocacy organizations and dedicated themselves both to reforming this legislation and to the cause is our most important and thats exactly whats playing out this weekend in an effort of global activism i hadnt heard this week. Toronto mayor rob ford officially admitting to smoking crack cocaine at a press conference for its end quote. I know i embarrassed everyone in the city and i will be forever sorry theres only one person to blame for this and that person is myself unexpectedly however ford did not resign in the wake of this consent. Perhaps he will have to do afterall its rival constituency may be sticking by him on getting their stamp of approval. Rtc and zacks reports on. The on the through this is true mayor rob ford threatening to murder someone. The city was obtained by the toronto star and it actually rub board believes that the incriminating video theres another video long rumored to have existed showing the mayor smoking crack. Trouble is that the doma or ford was forced to do what new mayor ever really wants to do and thats admit that he smoked crack yes i have smoked crack cocaine. Roll it into line to the town and know when i tried it. Only one drunken stupor is only approximately one year ago. So to recap here the mayor the fourth largest city in north america smoke crack and apparently wants to murder someone the interesting part. His Approval Ratings are going up as the toronto star reports since the crack revelations the mayors Approval Rating has picked up going from thirty nine percent to forty four percent. Meanwhile during the same time president obama is Approval Rating has dropped to thirty nine percent last week. His lowest ever. And his cheery day days are long behind them so what exactly is going on here well its really easy to explain the president s failing numbers others to watch obama to roll out the nsa revelations a pretty crummy economy the perception that the wealthy are being catered to. While the working class has been left behind. All that stuff inspires pretty well together to sink some poll numbers. Well things like smoking crack and there seemed caught on camera moments as much as the media likes to harp on them. Really affect Voters Perceptions your member marion barry and what he gets caught smoking crack all he was mayor of the year the Nations Capital washington dc back in nineteen ninety even went to jail for it. How did the voters react. Well they like to have mirrored in a few years later. Because people like seeing humanity from their readers people like flaws voters can relate to people flawed like them lets face it. Rob ford looks like a wacky uncle we all have croup. Sometimes treats too much of family gatherings but he tells killer jokes and wrestles with all the cousins which are way nixon kind of trust or that unavoidable. Even if his old accomplishment in office so far is privatizing part of the citys garbage collection. Nope that doesnt excuse smoking crack but it explains why voters. It didnt cover for smoking crack. Girl this was the best in former president George W Bush also very flawed had going for him. Thats the point the dentist pile on ethical scientists from York University toronto made recently in the washer post here are her bra boards appeal was that he does make a lot of mistakes he does speak it properly. His critics attack and that just reinforces the support among alienated populace to also feel that they dont always speak properly and that they make mistakes. Us there was a somewhat similar dynamic that was often attributed to George W Bush. More than york times criticized him for his binky or whatnot that bolster his support. Theres new jersey governor chris christie. With a knack for connecting with voters of its homely appearance or penchant for angry outbursts whatever it is