1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: This doesn't fall along any kind of political line, whether 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: you're a Democrat or a Republican, whatever. This is just 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,159 Speaker 1: about finding out who did some heinous murder in a 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: community of Chicago and making that person pay. Now, I 5 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: want to let you know that you can go to 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: Cook County Crimestoppers dot org. Cook County Crimestoppers dot Org 7 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: and you can given a tip, you can remain anonymous, 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: and it works. It's all there is to it. And 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: I'm just so disgusted. And this happens a lot around Chicago. 10 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: When you see a mom or a dad, or a kid, 11 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 1: somebody just trying to go to school. We hear about 12 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: it all the time. But here's a woman, she's got 13 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: five kids. I don't know anything about her. I don't 14 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: pretend to, but she is a lovely looking lady by 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: the pictures that have been put up with her. She 16 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: was on her way to Sunday service at five in 17 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: the morning. She gets gunned down. There's no shot spot 18 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: her anymore, so there's no calls made when shots ring 19 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: out to alert nine to one to one. This woman 20 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: lied dying in the street on a cold Chicago Sunday morning. 21 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: It's it's it's heinous. It's horrific and we need to 22 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: find the person that did this. Let me bring in 23 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: Paul Rutherford. Paul is the chairman of the Cook County 24 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: Crime Stoppers. Hi, Paul, welcome in. 25 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 2: Good morning. Thank you for having me. So. Tell me. 26 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: I noticed yesterday I was flipping through my phone doing 27 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: the death scroll and I came across one of the 28 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: news organizations that did a piece on the reward that 29 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 1: you're offering. In As I looked at that piece, I 30 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: noticed they didn't have your phone number, they didn't have 31 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: a way to contact you, and I thought that that 32 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: was a disservice to the to the service that you provide. 33 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: Tell me how does the community get involved to help 34 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: you to come up with I imagine you take donations 35 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: for a Cook County Crime Stoppers. Can you tell me 36 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: how it works? 37 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 2: Please? Yes, Cook County Risk Stoppers. It's a nonprofit organization 38 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: that we assist law enforcement agency through elt Cook County 39 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 2: and all jurisdictions. And so we currently have a website 40 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 2: that is being updated and it should be launching probably 41 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 2: within the next week or two. So, I mean, if 42 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 2: the community wants to reach out to us, I mean, 43 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 2: we're all over social media and if they google Cook 44 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 2: County Crime Stoppers are hotline one five three five stop 45 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: will pop up immediately. In addition, we also have an 46 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 2: online portal where people can submit tips and the hotline 47 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 2: as well as the online portal total anonymity. We understand 48 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 2: this culture that we live in that people don't want 49 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 2: to talk, they don't want to get involved, but it's 50 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 2: it's very valuable that we give the community the outlet 51 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 2: to provide that information and get the bad people, get 52 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,639 Speaker 2: the people that are doing all these senseless crimes off 53 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 2: the street. 54 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: I know that, and you can correct me at any 55 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: time if I'm wrong on a this. I know you 56 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 1: say that you're building a new website, I'm going must 57 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 1: be going off a website that's a little bit older. 58 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: But thirty eight years, you've helped recover twenty one million 59 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: in property and illegal drugs, helps solve hundreds of felony 60 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: level crimes. Have you received many tips or even any 61 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 1: tips since you guys have posted this reward so we 62 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: can find the killer of Kara Jenkins. 63 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 2: In this particular case, because it was we had just 64 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 2: posted it up within what forty eight hours? I don't 65 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 2: have the exact number of tips that come in, but 66 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 2: I do know that we have taken a lot of tips. 67 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: I mean just I did the numbers last week as 68 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 2: far as twenty twenty five, and we have over seventy 69 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 2: two hundred tips that came in on various crimes, and 70 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 2: approximately five hundred those are homicides. I mean, people are 71 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 2: you know, they want to provide information, and any information 72 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 2: is valuable. People think, well, you know, the color of 73 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 2: a car, it doesn't matter, Well it does matter. There's 74 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 2: you know, there's my partner, George mcdada. He since retired 75 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 2: back in April, but he I mean he took a 76 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 2: tip with attack in the Hood and you know the tips. 77 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 2: They didn't think it was relevant, but you know, it 78 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 2: cleared the case. So any information that anyone has, regardless 79 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:32,840 Speaker 2: if if it's small, large, uh, you know, we want it. 80 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 2: We want it and that way we can pass it 81 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 2: over to the proper authorities to investigate and hopefully that 82 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 2: information will result in the arrest. And if it does, 83 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 2: you're eligible for a cash reward for that information. 84 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 1: And well there's this, you know, I know you started 85 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: at ten thousand. I mean that will grow if people 86 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: want to donate to this certain project. I would imagine 87 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: and would I be correct to assume. 88 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 2: That if anyone wants to do to the organization, they can. However, 89 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 2: because of the IRS laws, we have to cap all 90 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 2: the rewards up to ten thousand dollars. In other words, 91 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 2: we would have to file certain documents that it brings 92 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 2: the it takes away from the anonymity, and that's the 93 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 2: whole purpose of this organization is to provide the anonymity 94 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 2: for the arrest. 95 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: Well, you know what, if you see something, say something, 96 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: it's say you know, I get it. Some people are 97 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 1: motivated by cash, and you said it yourself. A lot 98 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: of people sometimes are hesitant to come forward lest fates, 99 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: and some of these neighborhoods are tough places to be in. 100 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: Cookcounty Crimestoppers dot org. Cook County Crimestoppers dot Org is 101 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: where you can go for more details. Paul, I just 102 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 1: want to do to have you honesty. Thanks for what 103 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: you do. I think it's a valuable organization and hopefully 104 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: you can find this a woman's killer. It's something that 105 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: needs I mean, and I know it happened on Sunday. 106 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,359 Speaker 1: The police are doing their work, they're doing their due diligence, 107 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: but it's nice to know that somebody's out there that 108 00:05:58,360 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: cares about this stuff. 109 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 2: Thank you, you walk't sick.