Chicago In Peril

August 21st, 2012
07:44 PM ET



.. Gorgeous Ted Rowlands reports.

Tonight [Last night] on AC360: Inside one of America’s Most Dangerous Neighborhoods

According to the Chicago Tribune, so far there have been 38 homicides in the city this month and at least 346 homicides for 2012. That’s up from 265 during the same period last year, an increase of about 31 percent.

Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy has implemented a 3-pronged plan to try to combat the violence: hold gang members in custody for longer periods of time, take back specific street corners where drugs are being sold, and use gang information to predict and prevent retaliation killings.

Chicago’s overall crime rate is down 10 percent since 2011, but the murder problem is concentrated in a few specific areas.

Rowlands called the ride along an “eye opening, that's for sure.”

“Its almost a constant shatter on the radio of shots fired. I mean its unbelievable, you're sitting in that squad car and it's shots fired on 10th street, shots fired over here, shots fired over here.”

Tonight Ted Rowlands has an up close look at the fight to save lives in Chicago. The report airs at 8 and 10 p.m. ET.

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August 22nd, 2012
01:41 AM ET



.. with Handsome Ted Rowlands reports.

Up close look at the fight to save lives in Chicago

CNN’s Ted Rowlands takes you on a ride along with two 26-year veteran Chicago police officers to document what happens nightly in the deadly neighborhood of Englewood.