Shooting And Homicides Are Up In Chicago. What’s The Solution?

By Andrea Guthmann, Daniel Tucker
GOP 2016 Guns Chicago
FILE - In this Monday, July 7, 2014, file photo, Chicago police display some of the thousands of illegal firearms they have confiscated so far this year in their battle against gun violence in Chicago. The recent mass shooting at an Oregon community college has put the debate over gun violence and gun control into the center of the presidential race. At least some of the Republicans who are running have pointed to Chicago as proof that gun control laws don't work. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) M. Spencer Green / Associated Press
GOP 2016 Guns Chicago
FILE - In this Monday, July 7, 2014, file photo, Chicago police display some of the thousands of illegal firearms they have confiscated so far this year in their battle against gun violence in Chicago. The recent mass shooting at an Oregon community college has put the debate over gun violence and gun control into the center of the presidential race. At least some of the Republicans who are running have pointed to Chicago as proof that gun control laws don't work. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) M. Spencer Green / Associated Press

Shooting And Homicides Are Up In Chicago. What’s The Solution?

By Andrea Guthmann, Daniel Tucker
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Gun violence is on the rise in Chicago. More than 1,000 people have been shot in the city so far this year. Last year at this time, only 720 people had been shot.

Reset checks in with the violence prevention program, Rapid Employment and Development Initiative, or READI Chicago, to discuss solutions to Chicago’s gun violence.

GUEST: Eddie Bocanegra, senior director of READI Chicago