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we're free but people aren't free to send their kids to the park or school or just to stand on their porches in some of the neighborhoods. >> you know, we also reported on how kids -- literally needed escorts to school because they would have to and still right now have to walk through certain gang areas that are too dangerous for a child to go to school. i know you understand how people who may not live on the south side of chicago, which is the best side as far as i'm concerned, who are baffled as to why police have not been able to bring these numbers down. is it solely though a gun debate? >> well, i think first of all, what you described is very, very sad. and i think there needs to be community policing but also the police can't do it all. the neighbors and people that live in those communities need to speak up and need to speak up knowing it will be anonymous and they are reporting things they might know. it's all of us working together.
both stand charged with evidence tampering. toll chicago where police are struggling to keep up a surge of violence. gunman shot 10 people in various attacks across the city, killing a 14-year-old boy. it comes a week after someone shot five people outside a church in what investigators say may have been a gang-related attack. chicago is home to fewer people than l.a. or new york. but there were more murders there last year. 512 of them. that's about 19 for every 100,000 people. more than double the murder rate of the larger cities. starting today on the first day of school, hundreds of new safety guards are watching over children as they walk through gang areas. the parents say their needs to be more done. mike tobin is live in the city. mike? >> a lot of kids walked to school flanked by guards with franked vests. a half block away from safe
strike units to go in and stat rate the crime-ridden areas. the new policy keeps police in specific areas. you see the mayor right there at a press conference. listen to him talk about his new policy. play this. >> we put them out in our neighborhood and made our commander's in each area responsible. i'm not happy, nor am i content and gary and a al know that with the level of gun violence related to gangs. >> reporter: the mayor and the police commissioner says flooding those areas, saturating was kind of like putting a band-aid on a gunshot wound. now the former police commissioner and the alder men whose areas are gang areas issued a blistering attack on rahm emanuel and the police commissioner is saying the gangs are running freely because they no longer fear those strike units. consider this chicago had the same number of homicides this