BIG DECISION FOR THE MAYOR ON WHETHER TO KEEP THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S CONTROVERSIAL SHOTSPOTTER SYSTEM.

ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD FOR CHICAGO IS BACK ON THE AGENDA IN SPRINGFIELD AND VIOLENT RHETORIC FROM THE CHICAGO TEACHERS.

UNION PRESIDENT DRAWS BACKLASH HERE WITH THAT AND MORE IN SPOTLIGHT.

POLITICS TEAM AMANDA HAD OR SHARON AND PERES SHUT.

WANT HEAR ABOUT AND A BAG OF CHIPS ANOTHER BIG DECISION LOOMING FOR MAYOR JOHNSON ON WHETHER THE CITY SHOULD RENEW THE SHOTSPOTTER CONTRACTED TO BELIEVE SHOTS, BUT HE'S ALSO CHANGED ITS AS OF LATE WHEN CAMPAIGNING FOR MAYOR.

HE PROMISED TO REMOVE IT.

WHAT'S WHAT'S WHAT'S STANDING IN HIS WAY?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE IS MADE UP HIS MIND WILL BE ISSUE IS IS THAT YOU HAVE CHICAGO'S TOP COP, LARRY SNELLING SAYING VERY PUBLICLY THAT SHOTSPOTTER OR SOUND THINKING HELPS THE POLICE FIGHT CRIME.

>> AND AT A TIME WHERE THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE FOR VOTERS IS CRIME AND WANTING NOT DO ANYTHING THAT REFER SAYS THE GAMES IN THE DROP IN SHOOTINGS AND MURDERS.

THAT MEANS THAT THIS IS A TOUGH, TOUGH DECISION FOR THE MAYOR, EVEN THOUGH HIS BASE OF VOTERS AND THE PROGRESSIVE ORGANIZATIONS ARE UNITED IN BELIEVING THAT SHOTSPOTTER CONTRIBUTES TO BOTH OVER-POLICING AND THE UNDER POLICING OF BLACK AND BROWN NEIGHBORHOODS IN CHICAGO.

THE MURDER, I SHOULD SAY, THE KILLING OF ADAM TOLEDO HAS BEEN BACK IN THE NEWS AND THERE WAS AN INCIDENT JUST A COUPLE WEEKS AGO WHERE THERE WAS SHOTSPOTTER ALERT.

POLICE OFFICERS RESPONDED SOME AND HEARD A BANG AND FIRED AT THE MAN WHO DID NOT HAVE A GUN AND DID NOT WAS NOT ENGAGING IN AN ALTERCATION WITH THE POLICE.

NOW NO ONE WAS HURT, BUT THAT'S THE SORT OF INCIDENT THAT PEOPLE WHO WANT THE SHOTSPOTTER CONTRACT TO BE CANCELED.

WANT TO SEE STOPPED.

IT'S GOING TO BE A BIG DECISION.

CRITICS HAVE SAID THAT THAT SHOTSPOTTER ALERT HEIGHTENS THE TENSION ANXIETY FOR THOSE OFFICERS UNTIL THEY GO INTO THAT SCENE, EXPECTING THAT SHOTS HAVE, IN FACT BEEN FIRED WHEN IT HASN'T BEEN CONFIRMED YET.

PARIS.

>> HOW AWKWARD FOR JOHNSON IS IT THE FACT THAT HIS POLICE SUPERINTENDENT, LARRY SNELLING HAS COME OUT REAFFIRMED HIS SUPPORT?

I THINK THAT MAYOR JOHNSON HAS BEEN ONE OF THOSE CRITICS, ESPECIALLY ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.

AND THAT'S WHY THEY VERY QUIETLY, I BELIEVE, SORT OF TEMPORARILY OR, YOU KNOW, EXTENDED ITS CONTRACT ON THE IN THE INTERIM BASIS.

SO AT THE END OF THE MAYOR JOHNSON IS THE ONE THAT MAKES THE CALLS.

AND IF HE DISAGREES WITH HIS POLICE SUPERINTENDENT ON THIS, THIS MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT'S DISAGREE ON.

BUT I WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT.

>> NO MAYOR CAN KEEP ALL THEIR CAMPAIGN PROMISES.

THIS WAS A BIG ONE FROM THE MAYOR AND HE'S ALREADY FACING SOME EROSION OF HIS PROGRESSIVE SUPPORT OVER THE MIGRANT SITUATION.

YOU WOULD THINK GOING AGAINST THIS PROMISE MIGHT HURT HIM.

SO MAYBE THEY DO THIS COMPROMISE ANY.

MAYBE THERE'S ANOTHER TEMPORARY EXTENSION.

IN IT WAS SNOWING WHEN DO TO PREVENT.

I MEAN, THIS WAS HIS PICK AND MAYBE THERE'S A CHECK AND BALANCE ON IT THAT WE HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF, YOU KNOW, YOU KEEP THE CONTRACT, BUT >> THERE'S CRITICS, THOUGH.

CHEAP EITHER.

SO THE CITY HAS ALREADY SPENT 35 MILLION DOLLARS TO SET UP THIS WHOLE SYSTEM.

>> SO THERE WOULD BE SOME SORT OF LOSS OF THE CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN THE SPEAKERS.

AND IT'S NOT CLEAR WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO SORT OF THE WHOLE SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN CREATED OVER THE LAST ALMOST 5 YEARS.

YOU MENTION THE MIGRANT PARIS MIGRANT ARRIVALS CONTINUE TO STRETCH CITY AND STATE RESOURCES AS WE KNOW WHETHER ANY SIGN OF THE FLOW OF ARRIVALS SLOWING.

SO THE FLOW OF ARRIVALS IS STILL INCREASING.

SO IN THE LAST MONTH SINCE JANUARY, 5TH.

>> 20% MORE MIGRANTS HAVE ARRIVED IN CHICAGO, NEARLY 5600 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT THE SAME TIME, HOWEVER, SPACES ARE OPENING UP IN THE CITY SHELTERS.

THOSE SHELTERS ARE 9%.

HAVE FEWER AT 9% FEWER PEOPLE THAN THEY DID BACK IN JANUARY.

AND I THINK MOST IMPORTANTLY, THERE ARE NO LONGER HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WAITING AT POLICE STATIONS OR THE LANDING AT O'HARE TODAY, THERE WERE FEWER THAN A DOZEN PEOPLE WAITING FOR A SPOT TO OPEN UP IN THE SHELTERS.

>> WHICH I THINK IS MOST CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT THE MAYOR WOULD TELL US WAS PROGRESS.

AND ENSURING THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT BEING EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF FAKE SPRING RIGHT I'M LOVING IT.

SO THAT IS GOING TO BE MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF BREATHING ROOM AS SORT OF PEOPLE TRY TO GET A HANDLE ON THINGS BEFORE THE SPRING.

BUT THIS CRISIS IS VERY FAR FROM OVER, ESPECIALLY UNTIL A SECOND REAL WINTER HEATHER WILSON, OH, MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON, GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER IN COOK COUNTY BOARD.

PRESIDENT TONI PRECKWINKLE.

THEY ALL MET YESTERDAY TO DISCUSS THE ONGOING RESPONSE.

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HOW THAT WENT.

SO WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT.

GOVERNOR PRITZKER SPOKE WITH NBC PHASE MARIANI HURNS WE MEET ALL THE TIME.

THIS IS FINE, WHICH REALLY BELIES THE AMOUNT OF TENSION THAT HAS BEEN BETWEEN THE MAYOR AND THE GOVERNOR OVER THE QUESTION OF THE BASE CAMPS AND >> WHO SHOULD PAY FOR SHELTERS AND WHERE THEY SHOULD OPEN UP.

I THINK IT WAS NOT BY CHANCE THAT YOU SAW GOVERNOR COME TO CITY HALL.

HE HAS TO KNOW THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN CAMERAS THERE THAT THAT THAT CAPTURED HIM THERE.

SO PERHAPS IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF SIGN OF DATE HANSER PERESTROIKA AND THEY'RE TAKING A LITTLE BIT OF THIS OPPORTUNITY OF THIS LOW THAT I TALKED ABOUT TO SORT OF MAYBE START AND WE KNOW THAT MAYOR AND THE GOVERNOR HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY AT ODDS OVER THIS ANY SUGGESTION THAT THIS MEETING MIGHT HAVE EASE THOSE TENSIONS?

ALL WE KNOW IS THE GOVERNOR'S FOLKS SAY THAT THIS WAS A QUOTE, UNQUOTE, PRODUCTIVE MEETING.

WE KNOW WHAT WAS NOT TALKED ABOUT ACCORDING TO THEM, IS THAT.

>> THIS ISSUE A SHELTER AS YOU STILL HAVE MAYOR AND THE GOVERNOR AT ODDS WITH THE STATE PROMISING ANOTHER 2000 SHELTER BEDS AND SAYING READY TO DO IT.

JUST SAY WHERE AND THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION SAYING, NO, WE DON'T WANT MAKE THAT CHOICE ARE WITH NON ABLE TO MAKE THAT CHOICE AND WANTING THOSE SHELTER SPACES TO BE PERHAPS AT LEAST IN PART OUTSIDE OF CHICAGO.

SO THAT APPARENTLY WAS NOT JUST DISCUSS THE NET SEEMS TO BE A HUGE VOID.

WE ARE EXPECTING TO HEAR THING SOON.

AGAIN, THIS WAS A PRODUCTIVE MEETING.

AND BY THE WAY, NOT THE FIRST.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT BOTH THE MAYOR AND GOVERNOR TRIED TO PUSH BACK THIS SUGGESTION THAT DON'T GET ALONG IT.

THIS IS A MAJOR ISSUE FOR THEM DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEY COME OUT WITH THESE VERY PUBLIC JABS ON POLICY MATTERS.

AMANDA RECENT REPORT, THE SUN-TIMES SAYS THAT MAYOR JOHNSON ONLY WANTS TO SEE 10 OF THE 21 CPS SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS ELECTED THIS YEAR.

>> THAT WAS, OF COURSE, A REPORT FROM SOMETIMES WHAT HAS JOHNSON'S OFFICE SAID ABOUT THE ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD AND HOW THAT WILL GO DOWN THIS YEAR.

SO, YEAH, THIS WAS A LETTER THAT HE WROTE TO PRESIDENT TOM HERMAN, THE STATE SENATE WHO HAS BEEN, BUT ONE THAT THERE'S A LOT OF REVERSING POSITIONS HERE.

BUT HARMON NOW IS ADVOCATING FOR A FULLY ELECTED BOARD.

THAT IS SOMETHING, BY THE WAY, THE CHICAGO'S TEACHERS UNION.

>> LONG FOUGHT FOR NOW.

THEY DON'T WANT THAT.

THERE IS A SUGGESTION THAT THE CTU HAS PUSHED BACK AGAINST THAT.

IT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO NECESSARILY OR DON'T HAVE THE CAMPAIGN DOLLARS TO FIGHT FOR.

21 SEATS AND 7 RATHER HAVE HALF A LOT OF FOLKS WOULD POINT OUT JOHNSON HAS DEEP CONNECTIONS TO THE SEA.

TO YOU THAT SOMETHING THAT THAT JOHNSON CONTINUALLY SORT OF TRIES TO MAKE NOT MUCH WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING TO GO.

HERMAN HAS SAID THAT HE NEEDS TO SPEAK WITH LEGISLATORS, SPEAK WITH SENATORS TO DECIDE NEXT STEPS IN THE GOVERNOR'S REALLY TAKING A HANDS-OFF POSITION, OK?

SO SOMEONE MAYOR JOHNSON HAS DEEP CONNECTIONS TO IS, OF COURSE, CTU PRESIDENT STACY DAVIS, GATES A PARIS LAST WEEK.

YOU BROKE THE STORY.

>> BUT SHE CALLED ON SOME TEACHERS TO, QUOTE, PUNCH THEIR PRINCIPLE IN THE ANY WORD ON THIS FROM STACY?

SHE DID NOT RETURN MY CALLS FOR COMMENT.

A SPOKESPERSON DID NOT PROVIDE ANY COMMENT.

THEY DID PROVIDE A STATEMENT TO THEIR MEMBERS.

BASICALLY IN THE LANGUAGE IS FIGURATIVE THEY SAY WAS INTENTIONALLY MISCHARACTERIZED.

>> BY BY THE WAY, THIS PRINCIPLE FILED A POLICE INCIDENT REPORT CTU IN THIS STATEMENT KIND OF TURNED AROUND AND SAID THEY'VE BEEN KIND OF BULLY THEIR THEIR CONTRACT IS UP, YOU IN JUNE GETTING READY TO NEGOTIATE A NEW LABOR CONTRACT AND THEY HAVE THE PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION.

TROY LAURA, VERY COLD FOR ACCOUNTABILITY FOR DAVIS CASE FOR THESE COMMENTS AND SAID HE BELIEVES THIS IS PART OF A PATTERN WHERE TEACHERS WHO ARE TEACHERS, UNION DELEGATES AND MEMBERS ARE CAUSING TROUBLE IN CERTAIN SCHOOLS AGAINST PRINCIPLES.

I TTO WAS OR SOMETHING AS PRINCIPAL DID THE WANTED THOSE COMMENTS AGAIN, THEY DIDN'T ANSWER ME.

A LOT OF THE OTHER THING THE TRAIL AREA SAID IT'S IT'S PROVIDING A PRETTY BAD EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT FOR KIDS RIGHT NOW.

A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT.

OBVIOUSLY, I'M SURE THERE WILL BE MORE BECAUSE IT, AS YOU SAID, THE LOT BY GOING TO BE ON THE