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Thank you so much. thank you so much. >> laura: i'm sorry. >> we have to protect our children. and if we have people that are leading our city not concerned with the protection of our children, then where do we stand as people? >> laura: need some new leadership in the city. it's not about democrats or republicans. it's someone who knows how to run this city. >> we call ate miracle. for 30 days straight, we called 311. we called the mayor's office to get some acknowledgement, superintendents. we reached out. >> laura: did mayor emanuel call you? >> we have not heard from either one of them yet...

Fire, it's my responsibility to get out of the house. but it's the police, rather the fire department's responsibility to put the fire out, not to come on the scene and lecture. was somebody playing with matchs? whose fault is it? nope. there's a responsibility that the fire department must do, and that's put out the fire. that's what we really need. all institutions must put all hands on deck. we certainly need the mayor to lead the way. in chicago we have a tale of two cities. we have economic disinvestment on the south side and west side. on the north side you have economic growth. you have...

>> laura: you're 1,000 police officers short in the city of chicago today? >> we only have half of the detectives that we need. we used to have 2,000 detectives. >> laura: how many do you have now? >> just about 1,000. >> laura: what's the reason for that? what are the politicians saying? >> you have to ask the mayor, rom emanuel, for that. he's the one that calls the detectives. we have aulsz at the fop tried to interject our solutions to the problem both when it requires money, we are shut out. our opinion doesn't count. that's part of the problem. that's what has to change. we certainly wan...

>> laura: welcome back to our town hall from chicago. as we discussed in our previous segment, this city's political class has utterly failed its citizens while crime threatens their future. so what are the religious and civic groups doing that politicians apparently can't? joining us are corey brooks and ira kraoe, who are both pastors. and also a professor. it's great to see all of you. thank for being here tonight. wonderful city. love coming here. always do. tough problems. reverend akre, tell us what your thoughts are. you heard the conversations both from the police perspective and the p...

Since 2011, the year that rom emanuel took office as mayor, there have been over 4,000 murders in this city. that's more than the 3,481 soldiers who were killed in action in operation iraqi freedom from 2003 to 2010, if you can believe it. it's not just the level of violence in the city that's the problem. it's the lack of justice. according to an afternoon nall seus conducted by the washington post, chicago police have made an arrest in only about 27% of homicides since 2010. that's the lowest rate of any city the post examined. for nonfatal shootings, it's even worse. university oven chicago...