We had a couple police shootings after Ferguson and in almost every case we saw people protesting and in some cases trying to inflame the situation by putting out bad information. So it became really clear that we had to get better and quicker at putting out good information.

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I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So I'll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire and we're going to have tragedies as a result of that. I'm telling you right up front.

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Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a mu... by Garry McCarthy

Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder.

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If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody's gotta wake up to that.

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It’s a big deal. by Garry McCarthy

It’s a big deal.

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So what’s happening, and this is ironic, is that a movement with the goal of saving black lives at this point is getting black lives taken, because 80 percent of our murder victims here in Chicago are male blacks.

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Chicago is probably the worst example of something that has happe... by Garry McCarthy

Chicago is probably the worst example of something that has happened across the country.

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We have a lot of work to do in the post-Ferguson world. by Garry McCarthy

We have a lot of work to do in the post-Ferguson world.

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