great for coming back. you listened to the superintendent there, david brown, saying people need to get involved, mentor somebody. this is the work of your life trying to fix the violence in your city of chicago. you ve been very critical of mayor lightfoot and david brown. you say what they re doing is not working and nobody is saying your city. one thing i can say i agree with the superintendent, david brown, saying the police cannot do it alone. he cannot do it at all. every strategy he tried to implement in chicago has failed. mayor lori lightfoot refuses to think out of the box to actually achieve results in chicago, which leads to reduction in shootings and homicides. in 2020, we had almost 800 homicides. the superintendent and the mayor play games with the homicide numbers. as a matter of fact, in chicago, we have experienced over 840 homicides during the year 2021,
smarts and all these young men are going to do incredible things with their lives. many of them are already doing incredible things with their lives. part of what we want to do was to make sure we heard directly from young people who oftentimes are growing up in really tough situations single-parent households low-income communities, crime-infested areas. we ve heard stories of some of these young men being stopped and put on the ground by police for no reason. domestic abuse inside the household. you know situations where the schools don t seem to be invested in their success. yet, despite all that these young men are succeeding in some remarkable ways. part of what i heard from them was that they re succeeding because somewhere along the line they ve received a mentor somebody who s just paying attention to them and giving them some sense of direction.