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Stand together and unify, chris, that s what we re going to see some solutions. what does that mean, though? to your point, the folks in this room, regardless of whether your program has been resourced or not, people are going out everyday, there s they re continuing to put their lives on the line and continuing to fight for the sanctity and the dignity of the people and violence to be reced in the city of chicago. so what can we do? we have to unify behind something. and if we can agree that we all want to see one chicago unified we can all leave here today feeling like when we go out tomorrow we re going to make chicago better as a result of us being here today. okay. let me ask this question, can unity can people feel like there can be unity or trust in unless there is accountability? do people feel like the chicago police department is an accountable department? so here s the deal. superintendent eddie johnson has come in, he s diversify it had ....
We have wars going on. it s so sad. chicago has become so sad. last month after apparently watching a news report about the surge in crime here the president took to twitter to threaten if anything doesn t fix the horrible carnage going only send in the feds. with chicago having become a presidential punching bag, we wanted to come to this city and give officials and activists and others who live here a platform to respond to talk about the real problems and the work towards real solutions. perhaps the president will see this because we have a lot of choices in this room that deserve to be heard. i want to introduce a few right now. joining me on stage, four of those voices, andrea zopp, deputy mayor of chicago, also former president and ceo of the chicago urban legal. i have also the superintendent suspect of the chicago police department. thank you for being here. good to be here. amina matthews, someone who has a lot of experience in trying to interrupt violence ....
Like when the president talks about other folks, like what are they doing there? like everyone s just sitting around and no one it hasn t occurred to anyone here that the levels of violence are unacceptable, right? and that no one here is doing anything about it. like, how does that hit you when you hear that? well, i think what s most important is to focus on what s happening here and engage in solutions to solve the problems. the back-and-forth, the twitter war, that doesn t mean anything to the most vulnerable people in the most crime-plagued neighborhoods that are also some of our most impoverished neighborhoods. what they look to leaders to do is to solve problems, not to paint them in a two dimensional figure but come in, roll up their sleeves and do the hard work of moving forward in a productive way. i want a show of hands on the question about solving problems and i want you to be honest. ....
I ve been willing to allow the city who shows up to engage, but the city has never been proactive in providing resources and chances for individuals on the ground fighting to improve the quality of life here. what does it mean when you say you feel like you re on your own. when you re talking about something like violence, for instance, how does that operationaze. what does that mean on the ground where you feel like we have to take care of this or no one will. it s in every facet of our life. the mayor s office is completely shut out to individuals who are critical of what his administration has and has not done and anybody who isn t going to get going to. people who don t do the mayor s bidding, that i become block from accessing we don t want to engage him, we want the resources to improve the quality of life but they are unaccessible. and they ve mastered their ....
Raise your hand if you have like you have trauma. let me talk to you rachel. thank you. you re wearing the button of someone. yeah. he was two two people i lost within a week s span. i grew up in grove heights, a little neighborhood south side of chicago, jay s potato chip was the main job in the neighborhood so ha when that factory clouds, kids worked at the potato dhip factory. so when we talk about divestment in the community, we have to look at two things, divestment in jobs, divestment in education and wonder why the violence is so high. [ applause ] so if you re looking at a neighborhood and saying why is the crime rate high, why is this happening but then you see no jobs, no education but barely holding on and we talk about food justice as well. all of those are major components that come into the violence that happens here. ....