there were pretty powerful democratic organizations in lawndale for the 29th and 24th ward. now, did the l rods and the bernie knights did they take the side of the contract sellers or did they align themselves with their new constituents who were moving in and were paying -- >> guess which? [laughter] >> which ones. >> whose side did they take. >> whose side would they go in? the sides with money or the sides without money. no they didn't take up with the contract sellers. they were absentee alderman. they might have been powerful but i don't have any evidence of them helping the contract buyers. and i think they would be more likely they would be more sympathetic to people who had money. i don't know for sure -- i came across nothing indicating any of those people doing anything. i mean, there's more research to be done, a lot more. and i'm really glad there's some graduate students, one at least i know at northwestern, who's currently working on the contract buyers league and she wants to get into a lot of things that i didn't get into. i think she's going to look more cl

communities that we're arming like a military and there's many people within black communities like lawndale and ethyl wood say that the police are like an occupying army. you can't have war and peace at the same time. >> it is fear, professor, that all we're doing though is further defining the problem whether we talk about whether we should have more gun laws or less gun laws or bigger guns, it's more defining the problem and not working towards solutions. >> professor, you teach criminal justi justice, can you tell us factually is there a clear correlation between stricter gun laws and keeping the community more safe among youth or does it go the other way? is there any obvious correlation someone can point to and say look, these laws do that? >> no. cities and states with strict gun laws don't have lower homicide rates, no. >> exactly. that's going to allow them to keep raising it. something else people are weighing in on, right here behind me it's about the media. a lot of people think what are the latest findings about the correlation between exposure through violence in the media and

my father had owned for apartment buildings on the west side of chicago, lawndale, the west park neighborhood and he had grown up in londell. he had a heart condition that he knew about when he was about 16. he always knew that his health was fragile and that he might not live a long life. he became an attorney and he invested in properties as a way to support his family and protect his family because these properties were going to be the thing that would enable his family to survive if something would happen to him, if he were to have to work less hours, anything. they were an investment for his future as property is for many people. he invested in a neighborhood that the new and where he lived, said that even if he was working all day as the attorney could come in the evening and just walk through blocks and look in on his property. he had these properties and all i knew growing up, hear these stories about these buildings and some kind of, i knew there was some kind of paint around the buildings. at some point they had been sold, i knew that much and i knew they had been sold for not much