This is an IHeart podcast.

It's that time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Vary show is on the air.

He pulls a knife.

You pull a gun.

He sends one of yours to the hospital.

You say one of his to the morgue. That's the shirt patent. Today, you hardly see a police car in a neighborhood. Declan Morgan has owned an operated Irish nobleman pub and Westtown for more

than 20 years. Yet in recent years, violent crime has literally walked through the front door.

Hands up. Hands up! Hands up!

This is video from the bar from when the armed robbery crew came in right before closing,

taking cash and belongings from customers, employees, and the pub.

It just seems like crime is really out of control right now.

Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump looked at the assembled cameras and asked for me personally to say,

Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?

Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago.

The addiction on jails and incarceration in this country, we have moved past that. It is

racist. It is immoral. It is unholy. And it is not the way to drive violence down. As the mayor

of this city, I can tell you that Chicagoans are not calling for military occupation.

They are calling for the same thing that we've been calling for for some time.

And that's investment.

What safe cities across America all have in common, they invest in people.

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