56 people killed, 46 african-americans. the other 10, eight latinos, two whites. and so we ve got a serious crisis in the city of chicago. it s a virtual state of emergency. we need federal assistance, we need additional fbi agents, dea agents, atf, police, though, we can t police our way out of poverty, i agree with that. but we need them to help solve this clearance rate. we need to we ve got recycled killers. look one of the things that i did recently is i introduced the neighborhood revitalization act. that would provide free homes for police officers, teachers, firefighters and paramedics to live in these communities that are epidangered for five years. if they live and work in those communities, it does several things. we ve got 80,000 vacant lots and abandoned buildings in the city of chicago. things that are boarded up. we have to put those back on the
african-americans. the other 10, eight latinos, two whites. and so we ve got a serious crisis in the city of chicago. it s a virtual state of emergency. we need federal assistance, we need additional fbi agents, dea agents, atf, police, though, we can t police our way out of poverty, i agree with that. but we need them to help solve this clearance rate. we need to we ve got recycled killers. look one of the things that i did recently is i introduced the neighborhood revitalization act. that would provide free homes for police officers, teachers, firefighters and paramedics to live in these communities that are epidangered for five years. if they live and work in those communities, it does several things. we ve got 80,000 vacant lots and abandoned buildings in the city of chicago. things that are boarded up. we have to put those back on the tax rolls. we have to put professionals back in the community.
i am hopeful. i would be hopeful that the pastor is being forthcoming, actually did have a meeting with gang members. i am skeptical they said i am looking for another alt tern alternative. that does happen. you think trump should meet with gang members? i said meet with members of the clergy. dana, what are real solutions? i saw a report out of chicago rahm emanuel said okay, we ll take your help. he said to the trump administration if you can send more fbi, dea agents, we ll take your help. last week he said we have got this. maybe if we need the help. now he is saying please send it.
exploring today. does he mean alcohol tobacco and firearm agents, more dea agents, fbi agents? these are all requestins mayor emanuel has made when he met with the then-president-elect december 7th. does it mean bringing in the guard. these are important details to unfold especially because president trump has taken this very special interest in crime in chicago when he used the word carnage, carol, this is a word from his inauguration smeepeechd it was echoed on a whitehouse.gov where he managed chicago. i expect explosive reaction as to what exactly this means.
absolutely. how was it works with some of these people on the front lines? we spent a lot of time. steve and harvey are sort of rollty in the dea and got us into quantity coe and spent a week training with them and having a very real understanding of what these guys are put up against and sort of these situations that you just have to have the training for. you re talking about the training facility at quantico for dea agents, fbi. yes. what did you glean from them that helped you in your performance? i guess the dedication and actual there s a certain quality it takes for a person like that to have to walk in to a situation where it s totally chaotic and to stay under control. really takes a certain type of individual. what do you do and this is kind of a tough question people ask actors but i ll ask it. what do you do then to get in