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I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

I love the city and the people here. I've been with them for many years and I fought alongside them.

While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

I grew up in the suburbs.

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me; whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood!