chicago alderman and anthony napolitano. let's go to the gang war.pped to deal with the gang war? >> we are in a war and you have to be open to new ideas but this is not a good idea. chicago police officer and firefighter, called to these day in and day out, and mental health experts on vaccine is another person hurts. of the concept of the idea is going to work, on the street it is not going to happen. todd: somebody else getting hurt, how dangerous will this be for the mental health professionals? >> it is the most volatile situation into mental health issue. firefighter paramedic is going to get hurt. todd: police retirements are skyrocketing, officers have retired so far this year, 470 in 219, we eclipsed that in 2021, a vietnam veteran dying after he was carjacked and all these retirements how much worse could chicago get? >> the rate of attrition we are not actively going out making more police officers take the job and city councilmembers pushing to defund the police department taking more money allocated to other departments. i always say the

former police officer anthony napolitano joins us now to react. good morning to you, sir.killed over the weekend was a 19-year-old member of the national guard. he was just about to turn 20 years old. he wanted to become a police officer. and his life was taken this weekend. mayor laurie light foot says she thinks illegal guns are the reason. >> we have the strongest gun laws in the state, if not the country. if we go to the surrounding borders, they had nowhere near the amount of crime we do. we have a people problem in chicago. we have zero accountability for parents in the city of chicago. no one is raising their kids, the gangs are raising them. we h is the worst in the nation. it's a trickle down effect. this is what we're running up >> raymond lopez sits on the other side of the political aisle. he is lori light foot. take a listen to what he has to say. >> the mayor is not up to the job to keep the city safe. we want her on record to explain how she is going to keep chicago safe. it is out of control. we need to get results that keep people safe. >> is there pressur

chicago alderman anthony napolitano joins me now. it's good to have you here.m fox, the attorney general in the city of chicago say that she's open to the idea of having some of these cases at the lower levels heard in what you term as city hearings. what do you say to that? is that encourage something. >> very encouraging. glad to hear that. the one thing is the 35,000 cases backlog. if you go back the last five years to that our attorney has been in office, it's an uptick. offenders have been let out on ankle monitors. her numbers, what she's giving you is complete nonsense. she's an inadequate state's attorney and derelict to her duty. if she's interesting in looking at our ordinance, it would be a plus. we're not looking at just low level crimes. we're going after offenders that are illegally carrying a firearm and look to hit them with a $10,000 fine. you can still put the state's charge on and she can drop it. we can settle our side. we can drop the fine on the offenders up to $10,000 and the funds will be going back to our state obligations on our pensio

combined, reverend acree are not nearly what chicago is and you have people like the alderman, anthony napolitanoing it's not a gun problem. it's a people problem. what are your thoughts on that? >> you know, the truth of the matter is, i go back to this. we need every institution to hit reset. it's going to take a collective investment. we need investment from all groups. he's right in the sense that faith leaders have not done enough. the police department needs reforming. families are fragmented and fathers must step up. that's why we're having a meeting with men saturday on the west side. because when you see this mayhem going on, of course we know that political leaders have fumbled the ball. the blame game, it's a shame. we really need something substantive to happen. we also know that when men step up, little boys will sit down. so on the west side, saturday at 3:30 p.m. central, we'll have a meeting on this side of town. faith leaders will ask them to step up. families, we're asking them to step up. certainly we need political leaders to have the will to do something other than just point

can't blame our founding fathers, she can't blame racism on this, this is her policies, here's anthony napolitanohe war zone. >> we have 0 accountability for parents in the city of chicago, nobody's raising their kids, the gangs are raising them they arrest these criminals and the people on the street that are looting and destroying our city, pretty much when they hit the cell there out within a couple of hours, in different parts of the city wanted to combat crime and they'll be the first ones to leave the bus if something goes wrong way. were averaging 6000 people shot in the last six months, this is a war zone things are gonna go wrong and they can't be held accountable for everything that's going to happen we have to let them be the police or we will never get ahead of this crime issue. lawrence: i know that we gotta move on but this last point the kids in the community, when you don't punish these actual criminals and the da lets people out there have gun charges and all of that it incentivizes that they don't have a choice, they have to join a gang to survive within the community. the good