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Criminals. you cannot. they might not want a job. they might not. they might not need services. i'm mad as held about this. i hope you are too. will: that's d.c. police chief robert conti. he was fired slashed the police budget and pushed so-called alternative justice programs. pete: always reimagining police. here to react is former u.s. secret service agent and ceo of sentinel security solutions charles thanks for being here. understand hold court and speak truth. you think this could lead to any change? while anyone who is in charge of these catch and release programs actually help out the ...

Seeing a spike about violent crime, nowhere is that more apparent than here in the nations capital. dc just crossed 100 homicides market is looking the earliest across the threshold in 18 years and is putting residents on edge as we thought two days ago, 20 to 30 gunshots ringing out in the city's most popular restaurant area. this is a war zone. two people were wounded, shooters remain at large, less then a week after and i according was shot and killed by stray bullets not far from the ballpark where fans went running for cover after another shooting. now dc's police chief robert conti havin...

Threaten to make them personally liable for split second decisions when you hire these so-called progressive prosecutors who are soft on crime but hard on the cops, this is what you get. so, i hate it for the victims. crime is the toughest tax of all on poor people. they can least protect themselves. they can't go hire their own police force. but sometimes people do what they promise they will do when they're running for office. and that's what you have in these major cities. that's what struck out number of officers hired in d.c. one other stat that robert conti gave there. 87% recidivism rat...

>> jacqui: the point about this being an issue in the midterm touched on another thing, when the economy is tough, the crime goes up and it was interesting, one of the top democratic pollsters was just recently warning the biden administration coming have to pay attention to inflation, because this will show up in the midterm, women voters pay attention to these issues and this is all tied together in a way that is going to become a focus in 2022. >> john: the defund the police movement has backfired. while we wait for the police in washington and the chief to come out to the podium, we will h...

In washington, d.c., that is an uptick from 2020 when at this point there were 422, but as chief pointed out, last year records for homicides that were set back in a collapsing of what was 2004, 198 homicides in the district of columbia. do you attribute this to politicians? do you attribute this to the justice system? what do you think is really responsible for all of this? >> when i saw this was when covid started in the shutdowns happen and even when there were these protocols pitting people against each other through a loss of jobs, so economically it led to this, but the change in the vio...