(26 Aug 2025)
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Chicago – 26 August 2025
1. Wide of people crossing a street downtown Chicago
2. Medium of people walking toward a bus stop
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Art Jarrett, Chicago Resident
“I’ve been living here for 57 years and I feel very safe in Chicago. I think it’s a very safe community. You know, I travel a lot and I go to a lot of other places that are much more drug-infested than Chicago.”
4. Medium of an elderly woman walking down a street in Pilsen
5. Medium and a tilt down of an Hispanic grocery store
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Marta Galán, Chicago Resident
“Sometimes when you go out, but you really don’t want to. Because there’s a lot of vandalism, lots of robberies, lots of aggression in the streets. And that’s why sometimes I don’t feel very safe when I go out. Every time I leave, I have to commend myself to God because you never know what might happen on the street.”
7. Wide of people walking on a sidewalk
8. Wide and pan left to right of people sitting in a park.
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sydney Aldrich, Chicago Resident
“ I do feel safe in Chicago. We have a lot of community members around town that are supportive of one another and we watch out for each other, but also we can just go around whenever we feel safe. If there are concerns we can always walk into a building and make sure that our security is working with us to ensure our safety.”
10. Medium of a man biking on the sidewalk
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Art Jarrett, Chicago Resident
“He’s full of crap, he got a building here, Trump Tower, he can’t think it’s that big a killing field, he wouldn’t have built a building there if he felt like that for real. And if they do bring troops here, the only place they’re going to put them at is where the rich folks is, so it’s nonsense.”
12. Medium of a group of people sitting on a bench waiting for the bus while looking into their phones
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Philadelphia – 26 August 2025
13. SOUNDBITE (English) John Roman, Center on Public Safety and Justice at the University of Chicago
“The empirical data is very clear that the Chicago trend is extremely positive. In the last twelve months, the nation has seen a 20% decline in homicide Chicago has seen a 30% decline in homicide. Chicago is doing better than the rest of the country on a lot of really important measures. So it does not seem like this moment is a crisis.”
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Chicago – 26 August 2025
14. Medium of people crossing the streets
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Rene Cardona, Chicago Resident
“If he’s going to combat violence, it’s good. But if there is no violence somewhere, then leave the people alone. Let them work. Let them live their lives. We shouldn’t feel threatened by the federal government if they come, because we’re in the United States and they run the country. And we elected them and put them in office, so they should be there to help us, not scare us.”
16. Wide of people walking on the sidewalk
STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago sent shockwaves through America’s third largest city as many residents defended their home against Trump’s escalating rhetoric toward its violent crime, including claims it is a “killing field.”
The threat of federal troops stirred a mix of fear, frustration and defiance for residents as they pointed to historic drops in violent crime.
“I’ve been living here for 57 years and I feel very safe in Chicago. I think it’s a very safe community,” said Art Jarrett, a business owner just south of downtown.
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