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What we're going to do to fix chicago. get more police. really? y'all been getting more police the last 40 years, dog. stop playing. that ain't the solution. >> it's not the number of police that solves the problem. there isn't a magic number, once we hit that number, all of a sudden -- suddenly the houses get nicer. the winter is only 50 degrees. >> forcefully, no. >> yeah. to get a better understanding of what life is like in these neighborhoods, malik has set up a meeting between me and current affiliated gang members. i'm totally not scared. okay, i'm a little scared. >> this is general, o...

She died a short time later at the hospital. >> instead of saying, ma'am, you know, get out of the way, get off the block, this and that, this is fixing to go down. you just shoot? you wonder, what were you thinking? >> these two offenders are the prime example of the challenge we face here in chicago with repeat gun offenders that don't care who they shoot, don't care whose life they take, and clearly, clearly don't feel the consequences of their actions. >> you know, your son is dwyane wade, and your niece's passing was used as a political tool by some people to talk about chicago. but not i...

>> i'm delighted that you would come here. >> you grew up in these neighborhoods, lived the life of these neighborhoods, and now you have a church. so, can you tell me a little bit about how that all came to be? >> yeah, you know, the violence that have hit our city of chicago, it's perplexing. even somebody like me who grew up in gangs, who grew up with gangs being around me, it was a little contained. it was structure, you know, it was something there that's not here today. and you wonder what is it all about? why is the rage the way it is? and why are the decision making that these young pe...

A lot of other major cities. >> hypersegregation? >> yeah. >> what is that? i lived here. i think i get what that means. >> some cities are more progressive, somehow further along in the intellectual thought process of inclusiveness and diversity. chicago reminds us that is not always the case. >> in chicago, is it a sense it's happening, not a reason it's happening? put on people, they're just sort of violent. >> right. one of the things i try to talk to people about is the historical reasons how some of these things came to be. certainly poverty is one of those, and poverty isn't a happensta...

>> we ain't that old. that conversation was great. and just when we were wrapping up, something happened that i never saw coming. >> before we leave, why don't we all pray, please. can we do that? if it's okay with you? ♪ >> our father which art in heaven. >> as we bow our heads in prayer, i can't help but reflect on everything i have seen and heard this week. despite the war zone reputation, chicago's violence is hardly a new phenomenon. whether you want to call it investments or reconciliation or reparations, it's clear that chicago, just like the rest of america, needs to make amends wi...