behind all of this is baltimore police commissioner michael harrison. thank you so much for being here. i ll just pull up some of the numbers in some major cities. i mean, there are more than this, but homicides up in chicago, up in new york, up in philadelphia and up in your city of baltimore. so what s going on, commissioner? what s causing this? well, first of all, thank you for having me. as i talk to my colleagues across the country, and certainly what i m seeing in baltimore is an increase in gun violence, and it s conflict or the lack of the ability to resolve it the appropriate way. petty beeves, petty arguments, petty disputes where people enact their anger on someone else with gun violence, and there s retaliations from these acts and previous bad acts with gun violence again just continuing the cycle of gun violence, and you know, we grapple with this, and we are working hard to, number one, stop them from committing gun violence because the decision to pull the trigger is
homicides above 80% are people who know one another, and when they engage one another and either are solving a beef or dispute or retaliating from a previous bad actor, using firearms, untraceable firearms like the ghost guns we have been talking about. it s compounded an already bad problem, the fact that we re just getting on track of two years from no trials has exacerbated that. we re back on track. chiefs around the country are working to number one, identify bad actors carrying guns but create comprehensive strategies to go after them, and change their minds about the bad decisions they re making. commissioner michael ha harrison, thank you for sledding light on all of this. we ll talk to you again. thank you so much. let s turn to this major ruling from the supreme court, the justices allowed texas to keep its near total ban on abortions but providers can still fight the law in federal