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Chicago because you're not likely to get caught.ç >> those kind of statistics are troubling. i think that's why we -- there had been calls previous to this exposure of this video and this incident for mccarthy to leave. because there was not the effective use of the police force or the effective management of the police force. again, those communities what we heard over and over again is the police force just comes in as an occupying force. it is not creating, finding ways to solve the underlying gang problems, gun trafficking problems, the access to weapons and the violence in our communiti...

Specifically there, we do gain information from inmates. it's very similar to what police officers use in the streets to gain information. you develop an informant. obviously, with the statement that mr. palmer made and what i read officer palmer went above and beyond. he went too far with that. there are ways to develop an informant. we have gang problems in the system. we do have violence large scale violence problem. we have drug that is come into the system. and they haven't been stopped. so our way to combat that is developing informants. >> developing informants and relationships are ver...

Started firing a gun on chicago's southside last night. the youngest is 3 years old and was shot in the head and is in critical condition. one witness said he heard rapid fire like an automatic weapon. they believe it was gang-related. this was one of 11 shooting incidents over a span of 12 hours. we will bring you the mass shootings coverage when they are unique. chicago has been going through what is clearly, clearly got gang problems there. mayor rahm emmanuel is calling it a senseless shooting. >> still to come, rick perry's unusual campaign strategy for 2016. why his texas touting is abou...

I don't know what's going to happen. >> parents also fear chicago's notorious gang problems as kids cross into strange neighborhoods to attend new schools. >> it is okay. you have certain gangs, no, certain kids that go to certain schools because it is in their neighborhood. when you go outside of your neighborhood, that becomes a problem. >> some blame the number of school closings on the chicago teacher's union which won a significant pay raise for teachers last fall. the head of the union blames mayor rahm emanuel. >> we have a murder mayor, a murder problem, murdering schools. he is murder...

Wanted to initiate something but i didn't want it coming from myself, i would have one of the staff call one of our former staff people who worked on the hill either for a congressperson or the committee and say, you know, if you asked director shaye this question, then, you know, we'd be able to do something. sure enough, that would happen. and i think that's what happened here. and then that gave them the right to isolate him, as happens in prisons. i've represented prisoners for more than 30 years. and, you know, sometimes when there are gang problems or there's illicit material coming into...