to go there for 12 hours and just roll the camera, see what we see. but in addition to that, talk to some of the good people who live there and who have lived in englewood for years and years and years. why are you staying? what s this mean to you? how do you handle the violence? and we met some wonderful, wonderful people who have been there four, five decades who say, we re just not going to give up on our street. in many ways, they re winning, still there. yeah. i ll be honest with you. we got a lot of feedback from people saying i love englewood. you put news a bad light. i said, no, no. we rolled the camera. what you saw is what you got. the numbers are the numbers. they re people. we shouldn t say numbers. they re people. when you do a story about chicago you know you and i will inevitably get a call from the police department, you got that wrong. you should be focusing on this. they re concerned about reputation and rightly so but
to the englewood community of chicago and here s what he found. it s a perfect friday night. the rain stopped. and it s nice and cool out. at first glance, you would never know the neighborhood is one of the most dangerous in chicago. what is the area like? crazy. blue lights. you hear the sirens, don t you? that s what you have all day, every day. just whole, this is englewood. it is not safe around here no more. not safe in the daytime. damn sure ain t safe in the night. reporter: the reputation of englewood makes it tough on business. down on a main drag, the hardware store is closed for the night, locked up tight. we knocked in to the owner s cousin. i m not coping with the violence at all. reporter: he stays. i feel ashamed. you know, i feel ashamed of
heartbeat.your chicago district. candy, i would do it in a heartbeat. but i want to understand. i am not only a mefb congress. i pastor a church. as soon as i get off this seat right now, i m going to jump in my car and head to my congregation to preach this morning. all right? the englewood community is probably the most violent communities in the city. i m there. i m there i ve been there for ten years. what i m calling on not only newt, but the other republicans, is if they are really believing in their faith, if they are really going to church this morning, and it really makes a difference to them, then would be lord, one faith, one baptism, then demonstrate that. demonstrate that by not just pointing fingers, not pointing fingers at the problem, but understanding that there is real serious issue of disinvestment