Interim Chicago Police Superintendent Charlie Beck on Gun Violence: ‘It’s Still Not Safe Enough’

EXCERPT:

JIMENEZ (on camera): “What are some of the questions that you get about the city of Chicago, about crime in Chicago, and how do you answer those questions?”
BECK: “To be brutally honest, you know, it’s still not safe enough. Five hundred homicides is — even though that’s a nice milestone, it’s way too many.”
JIMENEZ (voice-over): “But it’s not just policing. Even hospitals are trying to break this deadly cycle, taking the time to sit with shooting victims and evaluate the direction of their lives.”
REESE: “We use this unique opportunity to really drill down with people on not only their risk factors but their hopes, their dreams, their emotional experience of being injured.”
JIMENEZ (on camera): “The goal is not to see them again?”
REESE: “The goal is not to see them again, ever.”