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Control for 50 years and we have more murders than ever maybe it's not working. is there any reconsideration of those laws? >> not really but we take more guns off the street in chicago than l.a. and new york combined. l.a. had 183 murders so far this year in stats that i could find. new york has had 154. what we have here is a gang problem that's different than other cities. we have factions. one big gang that's bken in and numerous little factions and they shoot each other. >> interesting. i want to put up for your viewers who aren't from chicago a comparison that's pretty jarring. here are ...

Streets safer. murders are up in the city this year. the violence is first and foremost a gang problem, the mayor says. some visitors had to wait two hours to get inside. people had to line up around the block. the observatory is opened to the public this weekend and is highlighted by the panoramic views of new york city and beyond. it's 7,600 feet. tallest skyscraper in the western hemisphere. i was on -- i was just there. you watch the skyline grow in new york city from the 1500s until today. >> you were totally unintimidated by the height. i'm impressed. we have troubling news from the ...

Jobs is a facet of this larger issue. richard is completely wrong on the jobs and so is the executive vp of the orioles who blamed this on jobs. baltimore has a gang problem crime and drug problems. they have not dealt with those issues. the jobs issue right now are the people who have their rowhouse burned who can't go to work or the people who had their businesses burned out where they cannot work. to resolve this problem the community leaders have a responsibility. they have elected this leadership decade after decade since the -- the 60s. >> there is nobody condoning these thugs and rioter...

Now. you see them now disbursing. maybe the police are getting closer but you see they've been -- i assume that's cvs pharmacy basically trashed. for the last 45 minutes or so they've been running in or out. hard to believe this is going on as i keep say income a a major american city. jeffrey toobin is with us our legal analyst. this group called the black it guerrilla family. >> a long-standing prison gang actually started in california but they took over the boston city correctional center. the bcdc the local jail and ran it for a period of about a year. many of the guards and many of the p...

Other way because the fact that the people are dehumanized you talk about them in that way. the cycle works so as long as we have policies like this, those songs will continue to happen and what we do to distance ourself from the actual policy is, you know, when it pops up we say, oh, no, not me but, you know as we saw with the report this funds actual governments. >> you say the residents of ferguson do not have a police problem. they have a gang problem that the gang operates under legal sanction makes no difference. it is a gang nonetheless. no other word to describe that armed band collect...