Chicago Way w/John Kass: Garry McCarthy on losing his daughter to Chinese fentanyl

The Chicago Way

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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (07/13/23): This week, Garry McCarthy -former Chicago Police Superintendent and current Chief of Police for Willow Springs, IL- joins John Kass and Jeff Carlin to discuss the tragic loss of his daughter to a fentanyl overdose last year and why China, Mexico, and Congress share the blame for the over 110,000 […]

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0:00.0	Some of you may be interested in crime, and in our next guest, Gary McCarthy.
0:07.9	Because 100,000 Americans have been killed this year alone, killed, murdered, through
0:15.9	drug evidence, fentanyl, manufactured in China, sent over here, coming across the poorest
0:24.1	borders, and here's what it does.
0:26.2	It claims lives, breaks families, and leaves the pieces.
0:31.4	And one of the people picking up the pieces is Gary McCarthy.
0:37.1	Police Chief Willis Brings Police Department, former police superintendent of the Chicago
0:42.5	Police Department.
0:44.9	He's our guest on the Chicago way podcast.
0:48.4	Jeff Carlin is here, executive producer, WGN News, radio.
0:55.0	And I'm John Cass, husband, father, editor-in-chief of your favorite website, John Cass News.
1:03.5	And where are you?
1:05.1	We walk in a cross-broken ground, and the lights don't work.
1:09.4	The street lights don't work, and you're wondering what you're stepping on.
1:13.8	You're with us on the Chicago way podcast on WGN Plus.
1:18.0	So this is a guy who lives high on the hog, and he has this Tamini Hall style attitude
1:25.0	to power.
1:26.6	And it is, it's the Chicago way, absolutely.
1:30.2	The Chicago way is a deep cultural phenomenon.
1:35.2	It's the Chicago way.
1:36.5	The Chicago way.
1:38.2	That's the focus.
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