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>> i think howard wolfson was fear mongering, and misleading, because the city has alienated. mayor bloomberg's administration through racial profiling, which a judge ruled unconstitutional in the way it violated the rights of minorities in the city. this was just monday. bill de blasio is for safe neighborhoods, safe communities. not for driving a wedge in those communities through bad policing, which is -- you need good community involvement. so i think it's misleading, i think the crime drop is irreversible and i think there are many different ways to have public security. there are many ot...

There's really no evidence that the use of s.w.a.t. teams has brought down the crime rates. crim nolgs are fighting over what has caused the crime drop but these are mostly done on, you know, people who are suspected of these consensual crimes and, you know, there's a time when s.w.a.t. teams were used only in these emergency type situations, hostage takings or active shooter or escaped fugitive and using violence to diffuse an already violent situation where there's lives on the line. the problem with how s.w.a.t. teams are overwhelmingly used today, you're creating violence and confrontation...

Over background checks at gun shows, it found that among prisoners convicted of gun crimes, only 2% of them bought their gun at a flea market or a gun show. >> a few takeaways. one is that law-abiding gun owners aren't the problem, never have been, never will be. the second takeaway is the guns, the shotguns and rifles that president obama and mayor bloomberg want to ban aren't the problem because they're rarely used in crime. and the third takeaway is gun shows, which they've been focused on and obsessed with for 20 years, represent less than 1% of the guns that are used in crime. >> reporter...

Step two, where other cities and states are cutting back on early childhood, 6,000 more kids in the city of chicago will go to full kindergarten. step three, we have the first accountability from the corporate suite in the school system all the way to the classroom. everybody will be on performance pay, including principals, teachers, and the ceo of the school system. and it's the first time anywhere in the country a school system has accountability. third zsh -- second, safe streets. we've taken about 1,000 officers, from clerical positions, administrative position, unaccountable operations a...

Leather mcdonald a senior fellow at manhattan institute and contributing editor for "the city journal". >> glad to be here. >> paul: good news, crime rates have begun to fall. what kind of magnitudes are we talking about. >> extraordinary magnitudes. in the first six months of 2009 homicides dropped 10% nationally. >> paul: wow. property crime which is what you would really expect to go up if the root cause of crime theory is true, a response in inequality and property, property crime went down over 6% and violent crimes went down almost 5%. >> paul: so we're back at levels not seen since the ...