[♪♪♪] >> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" I'M PARIS SCHUTZ.

WE WILL BE JOINED BY OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" GUESTS IN JUST A MOMENT BUT FIRST, SOME OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES...... >> SENTENCE FOR COUNT ONE, THE CLERK COMMITS TO YOU COMMISSION OF CORRECTIONS FOR A PERIOD OF 270 MONTHS.

THAT IS 10-YEAR ADDITION TO THE PRESUMPTIVE SENTENCE OF 150 MONTHS.

>> AND THAT COMES OUT TO 22-AND-A-HALF YEARS THAT IS THE SENTENCE HANDED DOWN BY A JUDGE TO DEREK CHAUVIN FOR THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLED.

THE DECISION CAME AFTER STATEMENTS FROM GEORGE FLOYD'S FAMILY AND CHAUVIN AND HIS MOTHER.

PROSECUTORS HAD BEEN SEEKING A 30-YEAR SENTENCE AND DEFENSE ATTORNEYS SOUGHT PROBATION AND TIME SERVED.

MINNESOTA'S ATTORNEY GENERAL CALLED THIS A MOMENT FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE.

>> AND AFTER WEEKS OF DEBATE, CONTENTION AND ABORTED CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS LAKE SHORE DRIVE WILL GET A NEW NAME.

ALDERPEOPLE VOTED TO OFFICIALLY CHANGE THE NAME TO JEAN BAPTISTE POINTE DuSABLE LAKE SHORE DRIVE.

AFTER CHICAGO'S FIRST PERMANENT SETTLER.

THE COMPROMISE RESULT CAME AFTER WEDNESDAY'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING DISSOLVED INTO BICKERING AND ENDED.

OPPONENTS LIKE BRIAN HOPKINS OFFERED UP A COMPROMISE PROPOSAL THAT WOULD HAVE NAMED MILLENIUM PARK AFTER DUSABLE.

MAYOR LIGHTFOOT EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR THE COMPROMISE BUT SAID THE ISSUE HAS BEEN A DISTRACTION FROM MORE IMPORTANT ISSUES.

>> I'M GLAD WE'VE MOVED BEYOND THIS MOMENT BUT I THINK IT IS A POINT OF REFLECTION FOR US TO THINK ABOUT WHAT IS IMPORTANT?

WHAT DO OUR RESIDENTS WANT?

WHAT SHOULD WE BE FOCUSED ON TO MAKE SURE WE ARE MAKING THEIR LIVES THAT MUCH BETTER.

>> AND MUCHER MORE ON TODAY'S VOTE IN A BIT.

TWO PEOPLE WITH CHICAGO TIES ARE REPORTED MISSING AFTER YESTERDAY'S DEADLY CONDO BUILDING COLLAPSE OUTSIDE OF MIAMI, FLORIDA.

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY SAID AN ALUMNUS AND EMPLOYEE WITH MORTON SALT IS AMONG THE MISSING.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO REPORTS A STUDENT IS ALSO AMONG THE MISSING.

AND THERE ARE REPORTS NOW OF AT LEAST 159 PEOPLE MISSING OR UNACCOUNTED FOR AS RESCUE CREWS COMB THROUGH THE RUBBLE AND LOOK FOR AN ANSWER TO WHAT CAUSED THE COLLAPSE FOUR ARE REPORTED DEAD.

>> AND NOW ON TO OUR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" PANEL.

JOINING US ARE MICHELLE GALLARDO OF ABC7 NEWS.

TOM McNAMEE OF THE CHICAGO TUN SUN TIMINGS.

A.D. QUIG OF CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS AND CRAIG DELLIMORE OF WBBM NEWS RADIO.

THE LATE BREAKING NEWS, DUSABLE LAKE SHORE DRIVE IS THIS A COMPROMISE THAT MAKES MOST PEOPLE HAPPY, MOST PEOPLE UNHAPPY OR MAH?

>> I THINK IT MAY MAKE MOST PEOPLE SORT OF HAPPY OR SORT OF UNHAPPY.

THERE HAVE BEEN EMOTIONS ALL OVER THE SHOP ON THIS.

BUT IT IS A COMPROMISE THAT WENT FORWARD AND THE FACT IT WAS A 2-1 MARGIN IN THE VOTE TELLS YOU WHERE PEOPLE WERE GOING.

BUT IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL DEBATE.

AND IN FACT AT ONE POINT, THERE WERE SUGGESTIONS OF RACISM EVEN IN THE OPPOSITION.

SO IT WAS THAT KIND OF DAY AND IT IS A LONG NAME BUT IT WILL EVENTUALLY SETTLE IN.

>> AND LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THAT DEBATE THAT TRANSPIRED THIS AFTERNOON.

>> ON THE MOTION TO CHANGE LAKE SHORE DRIVE TO JEAN BAPTISTE POINTE DuSABLE LAKE SHORE DRIVE.

THE AYES ARE 33 AND THE NAYS ARE 15.

THE MOTION PASSES.

>> SEEMED LIKE A MOUTHFUL FOR THE MAYOR.

MICHELLE GALLARDO DO YOU THINK CHICAGOANS WILL TAKE TO CALLING THIS DUSABLE LAKE SHORE DRIVE OR REMAIN LAKE SHORE DRIVE?

>> I THINK AT LEAST FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO REMAIN LAKE SHORE DRIVE.

YOU CAN ALMOST COMPARE IT TO WHEN MARTIAL FIELDS CHANGED AND BECAME MACY'S MANY PEOPLE CALLED THE IT MARSHALL FIELDS FOR YEARS AND THAT WILL BE THE CASE HERE BECAUSE IT IS A MOUTHFUL AND THE MAYOR HAD A HARD TIME GETTING THROUGH IT.

AND IT'S GOING TO BE VERY CONFUSING WHICH, OF COURSE, IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS SPOKEN IN OPPOSITION TO THIS ESPECIALLY FOR THE RESIDENTS AND THE BUSINESS OWNERS WHO HAVE NAMES THAT BASICALLY INCLUDE LAKE SHORE DRIVE IN THEIR NAME.

>> TOM McNAMEE YOU WROTE A BOOK ABOUT CHICAGO STREET NAMES.

DO YOU BELIEVE THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO HONOR DUSABLE AND CHICAGO'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY VERSUS SOME OF THE ALTERNATIVES FLOATED HERE, DUSABLE RIVERWALK, CHANGING MILLENIUM PARK AND FINISHING DUSABLE PARK.

>> AND MAYBE RENAMING AN EXPRESSWAY.

YOU COULD EASILY RENAME HE HAD EN THAT WAS THE GUY WHO WROTE THE BOOK.

EDENS WAS A GUY THAT DESIGNED THE EXPRESSWAY.

BUT HE NEVER HAD A DRIVER'S LICENSE OR DROVE A CAR.

I THOUGHT CALL IT DUSABLE EDENS EXPRESSWAY.

BUT TO YOUR FIRST QUESTION, PARIS, ABOUT WILL THIS WILL PEOPLE CALL IT DUSABLE I THINK IT WILL BE A LITMUS TEST OF YOUR POLITICS.

SOME PEOPLE WILL RESENT CALLING IT DUSABLE AND OTHERS WILL EMBRACE IT AND IT WILL BE GENERATIONAL.

I THINK ABOUT MY FATHER WHO GREW UP IN CHICAGO BACK IN THE 1920s AND 30s AND 40s AND ALWAYS CALLED PULASKI AVENUE CRAWFORD AND TO THE DAY HE DIED, IT WAS ALWAYS CRAWFORD.

I THOUGHT THAT WAS SAD AND THEN I MOVED UP TO SKOKIE WHERE IT'S STILL CRAWFORD.

IN MY MIND EVEN UP IN SKOKIE IT'S PULASKI.

MY KIDS CALL IT CRAWFORD IT IS A GENERATIONAL THING.

I DON'T THINK PEOPLE SHOULD MAKE TOO MUCH OF IT.

IT'S GREAT WE ARE HONORING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS.

AND I THINK LORI LIGHTFOOT IS RIGHT LET'S MOVE ON.

>> AS MICHELLE SAID SOMETIME IT IS TAKES YEARS FOR NEW NAMES TO CATCH ON I REMEMBER CALLING IT THE FIELDS WINDOWS FOR YEARS AFTER IT BECAME MACY'S.

A.D. QUIG TELL US WHY THE COMPROMISE AND HOW THE COMPROMISE CAME ABOUT?

>> GOSH, WELL IT'S BEEN MONTHS AND MONTHS OF DEBATE A LOT OF PUSHING BY COALITION GROUP WHO HAVE SAID WE NEED TO HONOR THIS MAN IN A MAJOR WAY IN A WAY AND USE THIS MOST ICONIC ROAD AS OPPOSED TO MILLENIUM TO PROPERLY HONOR CHICAGO'S BLACK HISTORY.

SO IT HAS BEEN CLOSE TO TWO YEARS OF DEBATE.

THINGS FELL APART ON WEDNESDAY AT CITY COUNCIL WHEN THE MEETING ABRUPTLY CALLED OFF BECAUSE OF THIS FIGHT OVER CELIA MEZA'S APPOINTMENT TO RUN THE LAW DEPARTMENT.

AND THE MAYOR AND ALDERMAN DAVID MOORE THE KEY SPONSOR CAME TOGETHER AND THE MAYOR PROPOSED THE MOUTHFUL OF A NAME AS A MIDDLE GROUND TO PLACATE THE FOLKS THAT WANTED LAKE SHORE DRIVE TO STAY.

AND IT WASN'T UNTIL THE COALITION PUSHING FOR THE NAME CHANGE AGREED TO IT THAT IT CAME TOGETHER AND WE HAD THIS DETENTE WHEN WE GOT TO COUNCIL.

THE DEBATE WAS SHORTER IT WAS STILL CHARGED BUT ULTIMATELY PASSED AND PEOPLE SEEMED HAPPY ENOUGH WITH THE CHANGE.

>> THERE WAS A STAREDOWN AND IF THE MAYOR VETOED THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL IT DID NOT HAVE THE VOTES TO OVERRIDE BUT THE MAYOR DID NOT HAVE THE VOTES FOR HERRAL INTERPRET THAT -- ALTERNATE PROPOSAL.

>> CRAIG DELLIMORE A LOT OF BUSINESS HAPPENED TODAY IN THIS MEETING INCLUDING THE MAYOR'S FIRST LEGISLATIVE DEFEAT AND AN ORDINANCE TO BAN LIQUOR SALES AT MIDNIGHT.

TELL US ABOUT THOSE THINGS.

>> WELL, I CAN TELL YOU THE BAN ON LIQUOR SALES AFTER MIDNIGHT THAT HELD IN ALMOST ALL OF THE MAYOR'S BUSINESS MEASURES WERE PASSED.

ONE DIDN'T GO AND THAT WAS THE ONE THAT WOULD BASICALLY TAKE THE ALDERMANIC APPROVAL OUT OF ROUTINE SIGNS BEING PUT UP IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS.

RIGHT NOW EVERY SIGN HAS TO BE VOTED ON BY THE CITY COUNCIL.

AND BUSINESSES WERE SAYING THIS TAKES MONTHS AND SOME GO OUT OF BUSINESS BEFORE WE GET THE SIGNS TELLING PEOPLE WE ARE IN BUSINESS THEY WANTED THAT CHANGE AND SOME OF THE ALDERMEN INCLUDING REILLY, THE DOWNTOWN ALDERMAN AND HOPKINS ARGUED THAT THEY STILL NEED TO PRESERVE THE POWER OF BEING ABLE TO SAY YES OR NO.

AND IT'S ALDERMANIC PREROGATIVE AND BEING ABLE TO REPRESENT THEIR PEOPLE.

MAYOR LIGHTFOOT -- THAT WAS EVENTUALLY AFTER MUCH DEBATE PULLED OUT OF THE BUSINESS PACKAGE.

AND SET ASIDE BY ITSELF.

AND THAT WILL HAVE TO GO ANOTHER TIME.

BUT ALL OF THE REST OF IT WENT THROUGH.

>> OF COURSE ALDERMEN AND SIGNS THAT IS PART OF THE 14-COUNT INDICTMENT AGAINST ALDERMAN ED BURKE.

MICHELLE GALLARDO, AS A.D. QUIG SAID WEDNESDAY'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING DEVOLVED INTO CHAOS.

THE PHRASES COUNCIL WARS HAS BEEN TOSSED AROUND SINCE THE BEGINNING OF LIGHTFOOT'S TERM AND REPORTERS AND ALL OF US OBSERVERS HAVE BEEN WAITING TO SEE WHEN THE WHEELS COME OFF AND SHE LOSES CONTROL OF CITY COUNCIL.

DO YOU THINK THIS IS THAT MOMENT NOW IF THAT HAPPENS?

>> YOU KNOW I THINK THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE WILL KNOW IF THIS WAS THE MOMENT PROBABLY MONTHS FROM NOW AS THEY CONTINUE TO EVOLVE.

CERTAINLY TIMES HAVE CHANGED FROM WHEN A MAYOR HAD A RUBBER STAMP WITH CITY COUNCIL THAT WENT ALONG WITH EVERYTHING THAT HE OR SHE SAYS.

WE ARE IN A DIFFERENT WORLD.

THE ALDERMEN FEEL MORE EMPOWERED TO STAND UP FOR WHAT THEY FEEL IS RIGHT.

AND WE WILL HAVE TO SEE, I GUESS.

I REALLY AM NOT SURE THAT WE ARE BACK AT A POINT OF COUNCIL WARS.

BUT I DO ALSO THINK THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL KNOW DOWN THE ROAD MONTHS FROM NOW IF THIS WAS THE TURNING POINT.

>> NO ALDERMEN JUMPING ON THEIR DESK BUT WHAT THEY CONFRONT THE MAYOR ON IS IS WHETHER OR NOT SHE IS FOLLOWING THE RULES OF ORDER.

SEVERAL ALDERMEN SIGNED A LETTER SAYING SHE IS NOT FOLLOWING THE RULES OF ORDER OR SHE HAS TO OR FACE CONSEQUENCES.

IS SHE FOLLOWING RULES OF ORDER?

ARE THERE CONSEQUENCES FOR NOT FOLLOWING IT?

THEY GO THE ROBERTS RULES OF ORDER?

>> I'M NOT BEING SARCASTIC.

IF EDDIE BURKE SAYS SHE IS NOT FOLLOWING THE RULES THAT IS A GOOD CHANCE SHE IS NOT FOLLOWING THE RULES.

WHATEVER ONE MIGHT SAY ABOUT ALDERMAN BURKE HE IS THE GUY THAT KNOWS THE RULES.

I SUBPOENAING IT'S TRUE.

-- SUSPECT IT'S TRUE.

WHAT I FIND MOST INTERESTING IS THIS GREAT, GREAT DIVISION BETWEEN THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL AND YOU KNOW, TO MICHELLE'S POINT THERE WAS A DAY GOING BACK TO THE COUNCIL WARS WHEN WE HAD THIS BEFORE AND THAT WAS A RACIAL ISSUE.

THAT WAS ABOUT WHITE FOLKS NOT LIKING TO HAVE A BLACK MAYOR.

WHAT I SEE HERE IS REALLY THREE THINGS: ONE IS WE HAVE A MAYOR WHO DOES HAVE SORT OF A THIN SKIN.

AND SHE IS QUICK TO CRITICIZE PUBLICLY PEOPLE WITH WHOM SHE DISAGREES OR WHO CRITICIZE HER.

AND WE HAVE A MAYOR WHO IS NOT INTO THE CARE AND FEEDING OF ALDERMEN.

ONE THING RAHM EMANUEL WAS GOOD ABOUT HE DID NOT HAVE A CITY COUNCIL THAT HE COULD CONTROL WITH JOBS AND CONTRACTS IN THE OLD WAY.

HE HAD TO FIND A NEW WAY AND HE DID SOME CONTRACTS.

BUT WHAT HE FIGURED OUT AND IT GOES BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN HE WAS TRYING TO GET VOTES IN CONGRESS HE DID CARE AND FEEDING WITH ALDERMEN, WHAT DO YOU WANT?

AND THERE WAS A STORE GOING NEWSPAPER A NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEY NEEDED TO EXPEDITE PERMITS HE WOULD DO THAT AND GO TO THE OPENING THE BIG RIBBON CUTTING AND HE WOULD STAND THERE AND MAKE THE ALDERMAN LOOK IMPORTANT.

HE UNDERSTOOD THAT YOU HAVE TO DO THAT.

AND FRANKLY, THE THIRD THING IS REAL DEMOCRACY IN ACTION.

WE'RE SEEING PEOPLE ON THE CITY COUNCIL WHO GOT THERE ON THEIR OWN, FROM VARIOUS INTEREST GROUPS.

I REMEMBER WHEN THEY ALL CAME THROUGH AND WE DID ENDORSEMENT INTERVIEWS I WAS STRUCK BY THE DIVERSITY.

I'M TALKING ABOUT THE IDEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE RUNNING FOR OFFICE AND I WAS SURPRISED WHEN JOE MOORE A STALWART OF THE 49TH WARD BUT NOT A MACHINE TYPE WAS DEPOSED BY MARIA HAD HA DON.

WE ARE SEEING DEMOCRACY.

>> AND DEMOCRACY CAN BE MESSY AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE'VE SEEN MUCH OF IN CHICAGO.

JENNETTE TAYLOR CAME UP OUT OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS NOT OFFICIAL POLITICAL AVENUES SHE GOT INTO A MAJOR ARGUMENT WITH THE MAYOR ON WEDNESDAY.

THE TWO OF THEM TRADING BARBS.

A.D. QUIG IF YOU WERE A FLY ON THE WALL WHAT IS BEING SAID BETWEEN THESE TWO?

>> THIS WAS AN UNPRECEDENTED THING FOR THE REPORTERS TO SEE.

AND IT CAN ONLY HAPPEN BECAUSE OF COVID BECAUSE WE HAVE NO AUDIENCE IN THE BACK OF CITY COUNCIL.

WE WERE CALLED AT EASE WHEN A COUPLE ALDERMEN, JEANETTE TAYLOR AND LOPEZ MOVED TO THE APPOINTMENT OF CELIA MEZA AND THE MAYOR CAME DOWN AND THE TWO WERE NOSE TO NOSE.

KIND OF DUKE TO GO OUT.

AND WHAT JEANETTE TAYLOR SAID WAS THIS IS LESS ABOUT MEZA MORE ABOUT THE LAW DEPARTMENT'S TREATMENT OF ANJANETTE YOUNG AND THE POSSIBILITY THIS SETTLEMENT THAT THE CITY WAS SUPPOSED TO REACH WITH HER MIGHT GET DROPPED.

THE MAYOR SAID SHE WAS ESSENTIALLY OFFENDED THAT JEANETTE TAYLOR DID NOT COME TO HER BEFORE COUNCIL AND INSTEAD LET IT PLAY OUT ON THE FLOOR AND SIDE LINE THE APPOINTMENT OF THE CITY'S FIRST LATINA CORPORATION COUNCIL.

ONE OF THE LAST PEOPLE I WOULD WANT TO GO UP AGAINST IS JEANETTE TAYLOR SHE DOES NOT BACK DOWN.

SHE LIKES TO FIGHT.

AND SHE WILL NOT WALK AWAY FROM A FIGHT AND NEITHER WILL THE MAYOR.

SEEING THEM GO NOSE TO NOSE LIKE THIS, THEY ARE LIKE THE MOST LEAST BACK DOWNABLE FOLKS I COULD IMAGINE GETTING INTO AN ARGUMENT.

>> IT WAS A COMBUSTIBLE SITUATION AND WE'VE INTERVIEWED ALDERMAN TAYLOR AND SHE DOES NOT MINCE WORDS.

CRAIG DELLIMORE, THIS WEEK, ALSO, OFFERED ONE OF THE DEADLIEST DAYS OF VIOLENCE.

MAYOR LIGHTFOOT SAYS HOMICIDES AND SHOOTINGS ARE ON A DOWNWARD TREND BUT LET'S HEAR WHAT AN ALDERMAN, CARLOS RAMIREZ-ROSA WHO DISAGREED SAID.

>> IF YOU LOOK AT WHERE WE WERE IN JANUARY, TO WHERE WE ARE NOW, WE'RE ALSO SEEING A DOWNWARD TRAJECTORY IN BOTH HOMICIDES AND SHOOTINGS.

>> DO YOU AGREE DOWNWARD TREND IN HOMICIDES AND SHOOTINGS?

>> THE DATA THAT I'VE SEEN SHOWS THAT VIOLENCE IS ACTUALLY HIGHER THAN IT WAS IN PREVIOUS YEARS.

>> CRAIG DELLIMORE WHO IS RIGHT HERE?

WHO HAS THE RIGHT ANSWER?

>> THIS IS ONE OF THOSE CASES WHERE THEY ARE BOTH RIGHT.

IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FROM YEAR TO YEAR, VIOLENCE IS TRENDING DOWNWARD NOT AS STEEP AS IT HAS BEEN AND IN FACT, EVEN THE MAYOR ADMITS IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS, IT'S GONE UP.

BUT THE OVERALL TREND IS DOWN.

BUT NO ONE WHO IS LIVING IN CHICAGO SEEING THE SHOOTINGS ON THE STREETS ON THE ROADWAYS, IS GOING TO SAY THAT THEY FEEL LIKE IT'S GONE DOWN.

AND FRANKLY, I WAS TALKING TO ALDER WOMAN PAT DOWELL JUST YESTERDAY ACTUALLY.

AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE FACT SHE IS HAVING TOWN MEETINGS ON CRIME AND SHOOTINGS AND PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED.

AND SHE SAYS THEY WANT A SOLUTION NOW BUT THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM THAT CAN BE DONE WITH A NOW SOLUTION.

AND IT'S HARD TO CONVINCE ANYONE THAT ANYTHING IS BEING DONE BUT THEY ARE MAKING SOME PROGRESS.

>> IT'S IN THE WAY YOU READ THE NUMBERS OR PARS THEM OUT.

MICHELLE GALLARDO AS WE MENTIONED THE NUMBER OF MASS SHOOTINGS OVER THE LAST WEEK, DO POLICE HAVE ANY LEADS ON THE CASES OR EXPLANATIONS FOR WHY THIS IS HAPPENING WHETHER IT BE GANG-RELATED, WHETHER IT BE RETALIATION FOR SOMETHING OR RANDOM?

>> YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THERE IS NO SINGLE ANSWER WITH THIS BECAUSE WHETHER YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MASS SHOOTINGS WHICH COULD BE AN ISSUE OF GANG RETALIATION.

AS WE KNOW THERE IS A LOT OF THAT THAT GOES BACK AND FORTH IN CHICAGO.

THERE ARE ALSO THE REASONS THAT HAVE BEEN GIVEN FOR THE INCREASE IN SHOOTINGS AND MURDERS LAST YEAR WAS PARTLY RELATED TO THE PANDEMIC.

PARTLY RELATED TO JUST CONFLICTS ARISING FROM THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD.

AND ALL OF THESE THINGS COMBINED WITH PREEXISTING ISSUES IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO PARTICULARLY WHEN IT COMES TO GANGS.

BUT WHAT I THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF HEARING IS A MAYOR AND A SUPERINTENDENT AND THIS IS NOT UNIQUE TO THIS MAYOR AND SUPERINTENDENT.

BUT IN GENERAL, TRYING TO PLAY WITH NUMBERS.

AND TELLING US THAT THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER WHEN THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY ARE GETTING BETTER.

SO, YEAH, IT IS CORRECT IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS ARE TRENDING DOWNWARD.

BUT WE ARE STILL ABOVE IN TERMS OF MURDERS AND SHOOTINGS WHERE WE WERE IN 2020 WHICH IS ALREADY AN ANOMALY.

SO THE QUESTION BECOMES NOT JUST WHAT IS CAUSING IT, BUT ALSO HOW DO WE FIX THIS.

>> AND TOM McNAMEE, THIS IS NOT UNIQUE TO CHICAGO.

2020 WAS A PARTICULARLY BAD YEAR.

2021 HAS BEEN A BAD YEAR.

ALTHOUGH MURDERS, SHOOTINGS ARE UP IN BIG CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY INCLUDING NEW YORK WHERE THEY HAD BEEN HISTORICALLY LOW FOR A DECADE.

DOES ANYBODY HAVE AN EXPLANATION BEYOND THE PANDEMIC OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CITIES?

>> I DON'T KNOW.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS LITERALLY BRINGING UP THE NUMBERS.

I DO KNOW THAT THE ONLY SOLUTION THIS GOES BACK TO MICHELLE'S THING, THE ONLY WAY TO ADDRESS THIS IS NOT ONE WAY BUT THREE OR FOUR DIFFERENT WAYS.

THOSE PEOPLE WHO SAY LET'S DEFUND THE POLICE.

EVERY POLL SHOWS THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN DEFUNDING POLICE.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN REFORMING THE POLICE.

SO THERE ARE BETTER MORE EFFICIENT POLICE FORCE THAT RESPECTS HUMAN RIGHTS.

THAT IS A DIFFERENT SITUATION.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, PARIS IT, GOES BACK TO THINGS THAT SOUND BORING AND ARE LONG-TERM AND DIFFICULT THE CRIME IS NOT JUST PUTTING COPS ON THE STREET IT IS BETTER SCHOOLS AND JOBS FOR PEOPLE, IT'S ABOUT GIVING PEOPLE FROM THE DAY THEY ARE BORN A SENSE THAT THEY HAVE A CHANCE IN LIFE AND THEY HAVE OPPORTUNITIES AND THEY DON'T WANT TO THROW THEIR LIFE AWAY.

AND SO I SAW JOE BIDEN'S PLAN AND HE TRIED TO RECOGNIZE THAT.

PART OF THE PLAN IS TO GO AFTER THE FLOW OF GUNS TO CITIES LIKE CHICAGO FROM PLACES LIKE INDIANA.

PART OF THE PLAN IS TO SUPPORT GOOD POLICE WORK COMMUNITY-BASED.

AND PART IS TO TRY TO HELP COMMUNITIES.

IT'S COMPLICATED AND YOU HAVE TO DO THEM ALL.

>> AND WE HAVE SPOKEN TO FOLKS THAT WORK WITH GANG MEMBERS ON THE STREETS AND THEY ARE TELLING US THAT THE LEVEL OF GUNS THAT THEY SEE ESPECIALLY CARRIED AMONG YOUTH IS HIGHER NOW THAN THEY'VE EVER SEEN.

A.D. QUIG TOM McNAMEE MENTIONED BIDEN'S PLAN WHERE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS GOING TO GO AFTER STRIKE FORCES ARE GOING TO GO AFTER GUN SELLERS THAT MAKE ILLEGAL SALES KNOWINGLY.

IS THAT SOMETHING THAT CAN MAKE A DENT?

IS THAT ANYTHING UNIQUE COMPARED TO WHAT OTHER PRESIDENTS TALKED ABOUT IN THE PAST?

>> THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN TRIED BEFORE.

AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE MAYOR CALLED FOR OVER AND OVER ESPECIALLY SHE KEEPS ON GETTING ASKED WHY IS THIS WEEKEND SO BAD.

AND SHE SAID PART OF THE REASON IS BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY ILLEGAL GUNS ON THE STREETS SUPERINTENDENT BROWN SAID BY THE END OF THE YEAR THEY EXPECT TO TAKE 12,000 GUNS OFF THE STREETS.

BUT IT'S TRICKY.

HOW MUCH CAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DO?

HOW LONG CAN THE STRIKE FORCES LAST?

TRAFFICKING STRIKE FORCES THEY WILL BE HERE AND OTHER BIG CITIES, NEW YORK, WASHINGTON D.C., LA, SAN FRANCISCO BUT BACK TO TOM'S POINT, THERE IS A REPEATED CALL FOR COMMUNITY POLICING.

WHICH SUPERINTENDENT BROWN SAYS THE DEPARTMENT IS WORKING ON.

IF YOU GAIN THE TRUST OF THE COMMUNITY IT COULD HELP LEAD TO TIPS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY END CYCLES OF VIOLENCE AND RETALIATION.

BUT I DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL WORK.

I HOPE IT WILL WORK.

BUT WE'VE SEEN STRIKE FORCES LIKE THIS EVEN IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

AND EVENTUALLY THEY DO END.

>> I DO REMEMBER BILL BARR COMING HERE SAYING THAT IT WORKED.

A LITTLE PREMATURELY AS NUMBERS STARTED TO GO BACK UP.

>> I WANTED TO SAY THE IDEA OF COMMUNITY SERVICES AND WORKING ON THE NEIGHBORHOODS THE FAMILIES, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE CITY IS TRYING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN CONCERT WITH OTHER THINGS.

BUT IT HAS WORKED IN SOME AREAS.

FOR EXAMPLE I BELIEVE IT'S ROSELAND HAD A DECREASE IN SHOOTINGS AND OTHER VIOLENT CRIME AFTER THEY BASICALLY FLOODED THE ZONE WITH PEOPLE WHO CAN HELP GET PEOPLE JOBS, CAN HAVE COUNSELING FOR FAMILIES.

IT WAS A MULTIPRONGED EFFORT AND IT SEEMED TO BE SHOWING PROMISE.

THE CITY'S TRYING TO WIDEN THAT EFFORT.

THEY ARE TRYING TO GET MORE FOUNDATION MONEY AND WE'LL HAVE TO SEE AT THE END OF THIS YEAR WHETHER THOSE ADDITIONAL AREAS ALSO SEE DROPS IN CRIME.

>> AND THE HEAD OF THE FOP A BIG PROBLEM IS COPS ARE QUITTING.

THAT THE DECK IS STACKED AGAINST THEM.

CANCELING DAYS OFF AND FORCING OVERTIME IS JUST MAKING COPS BELEAGUERED.

MICHELLE GALLARDO ARE YOU SEEING THAT WHERE COPS ARE LEAVING IN DROVES?

>> YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'VE BEEN SEEING FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW ALREADY IN CHICAGO THAT MORALE AMONGST THE POLICE FORCE IS VERY LOW.

AND WE KEEP SAYING IT'S AT AN ALL-TIME LOW AND EVERY YEAR IT GETS LOWER THAN THAT.

IN THE PAST YEAR WITH AGAIN, THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD, THAT JUST SERVED TO INTENSIFY THAT SENSE OF CONFLICT BETWEEN POLICE OFFICERS AND THE COMMUNITIES THAT THEY SERVE.

AND SO A LOT OF OFFICERS JUST DON'T FEEL RESPECTED ANYMORE.

AND THEY HAVE STOPPED DOING WHAT WE WOULD CALL PRO-ACTIVE POLICING AND DOING REACTIVE POLICING.

AND THAT ALSO GOES TO THE FACT IF WE LOOK HOW DANGEROUS IT IS TO BE A POLICE OFFICER IN CHICAGO THESE DAYS JUST BY THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT POLICE OFFICERS HAVE BEEN SHOT OR SHOT AT.

THIS YEAR COMPARED TO LAST YEAR, COMPARED TO THE YEAR BEFORE.

THE INSENSITIVES ARE NO LONGER THERE.

AND THAT IS LEADING A LOT OF OFFICERS TO RETIRE EARLY AND NOT AS MANY TO SIGN UP IN THE ACADEMY.

>> BEFORE WE GO, WE HAVE TO MENTION THE DEVASTATING TORNADOES THAT TOOK OUT TREES AND HOMES AND POWER LINES IN WOODRIDGE AND SOUTHWEST SUBURBS.

MICHELLE GALLARDO YOU WERE OUT THERE THIS WEEK.

GIVE US A SENSE OF THE DEVASTATION THAT YOU SAW?

>> I WAS OUT THERE.

AND YOU KNOW, PARIS, I WAS COMMENTING ABOUT THIS EARLIER IN THE WEEK.

AS MANY TIMES AS I HAVE DONE THIS, IN FACT MY FIRST DAY AT CHANNEL 7 WAS THE DAY AFTER THE UTICA TORNADO IN 2004.

AND SINCE THEN I HAVE COVERED MULTIPLE NATURAL DISASTERS.

AND IT DOESN'T GET LESS SHOCKING.

I THINK IN THIS CASE, WHAT IS DIFFERENT, EVEN THOUGH IT'S A MESS, BUT WHAT IS DIFFERENT IS THAT PEOPLE DO BELIEVE THAT TORNADOES CAN'T HAPPEN OR WON'T HAPPEN IN DENSELY POPULATED AREAS.

YOU HAVE TO BE IN THE HIGHLY RURAL COMMUNITY LIKE UTICA AND WASHINGTON IS.

BUT OF COURSE THAT IS NOT TRUE.

NAPERVILLE HAS BEEN HIT BY TORNADOES IN THE PAST.

ROGERS PARK WAS HIT BY A TORNADO.

A LESS POWERFUL ONE LAST YEAR.

SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DEVASTATION IT NEVER GETS EASIER.

IT IS ALWAYS MORE SHOCKING THE FIRST DAY BEFORE ALL OF THE DEBRIS IS CLEANED UP.

BUT I THINK AT THE END OF THE DAY, MY BIG TAKEAWAY FROM THIS ONE WAS THAT THE BESIDES THE MATERIAL LOSSES WE ONLY HAD EIGHT PEOPLE THAT NEEDED SOME SORT OF MEDICAL TRANSPORT AND NOT A SINGLE FATALITY.

AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS DEFINITELY A PROGRESS WHEN YOU LOOK THROUGHOUT THE YEARS AND I THINK THAT IS A CREDIT SIMPLY TO TECHNOLOGY THE FACT WE HAVE THESE ALERTS THAT GO OFF ON THE PHONES.

ALL OF THESE WAYS THAT PEOPLE FIND OUT THAT THERE IS A TORNADO COMING AND THAT THEY CAN GET TO SAFETY.

>> THE TECHNOLOGY IS MUCH BETTER AND THEY CAN PINPOINT IT TO THE SQUARE MILE AND SQUARE BLOCK WHEN A TORNADO TOUCHES DOWN.

ALL RIGHT WE HAVE TO LEAVE IT THERE.

OUR THANKS TO MICHELLE GALLARDO, TOM McNAMEE, A.D. QUIG AND CRAIG DELLIMORE.

AND THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

FOR "THE WEEK IN REVIEW" I AM A PARIS SCHUTZ.

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.

STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

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