>> this happened after ron emanuel became major and he hired gary mccarthy, trained in new york city. they use comsat. they ceased doing reports that came from the police department and had gory detail about all the cils in the city. he discontinued them and reports comstat numbers on the city's website and so essentially it's keeping two sets of books, but not being transparent. it's kind of comparing apples and arranges to compare the reports from previous years to the past three years. that's what people are doing. >> it makes little sense. the police department issued a denial about the first peace. in a statement a spokesman said: said: . >> they did not answer our requests for a statement. how do you respond? >> well, we would love to hear a statement from them. i asked the superintendent for a comment on the story, and he said no. all i can tell you is we checked outline of our facts and stand by our reporting. >> another tinge that they argue is -- thing that they argue is your stories talk about beat police which has dropped. the chicago police argue that that hasn't happened

>> this all happened shortly after ron emanuel became mare and hired gary mccarthy, trained in new yorkity, which had its own scandals around this in the past. they used the same system comsat and they have ceased doing annual reports that used to come from the press department and have gory detail about the crimes in the city that year. he discontinued them and instead is reporting comsat numbers on the city's website. essentially it's keeping two sets of books, but not being transparent. it's comparing apples and oranges to compare reports from previous years to the past three years, it's what people are doing. >> it makes little sense. the police department issued a denial about the first piece. in a statement they said: >>> they did not answer our request for a statement. how do you respond? >> we would love to hear a statement from them. i asked the superintendent for this story, for a comment. he said "no." all i can say is we checked our facts and stand by the reporting. >> they argue your stories talk about the number of beat police, how it dropped by 10% since 2011, and the chi

. >>> chicago is getting national attention tonight after mayor ron emanuel, president obama's rightman proposes a controversial new plan for gun control. trace gallagher has that story with our "kelly file" investigation, trace? >> and megyn, back when chicago banned all handguns within city limits crimes in chicago increased when chicago banned stores within city limits, gun crimes in chicago increased. when a federal judge recently ordered the city to begin allowing gunshots again, the city chose not to fight the ruling and was severely restricted gun shops. gun shops won't be legal in 99.5% of the city, handgun purchases will have to wait 7 two hours and rifles and shotguns will have a 24-hour waiting period. all employees will need full background checks and here is the controversial part, all gun sales will be videotaped with the hope it cuts down on straw purchasing where someone buys a gun for someone else. here is mayor rob emanuel. listen. >> we're going to do it in a smart, tough and enforceable way to prevent illegal guns in the city of chicago, to make sure everything yo

what mayor ron emanuel did was give superintendent mccarthy the support and the cover to run the police department without politicians and floods of food the next leaders going to be. so we had to do is find the right leaders, built the bench, and promote the right people. not to say some of these people that were put in by the council members' choices, i think, set them of because they were not ready for the positions that they had. flan of the organization. because of politics as the superintendent went on to say, the organization in charge of the chicago police department. so there were things. we streamlined it, funded, eliminated three ranks because we wanted the message to get from superintendent and the chiefs right down to the troops on the ground. too many layers in place and they were all political positions. and also if we combined units and put them in the right place to break down the silos and the police department. overspecialization. the chicago police department, the idea of reducing crime, they did a very good job of it prior to our administration coming in. but they h