Chicago restaurant owner slams city leadership over crime: 'We want law and order'

Sam Sanchez, owner of the local restaurant and late-night club Moe's Cantina, Third Coast Hospitality Group, and a member of the Illinois Restaurant Association, told Fox he has "been a Democrat for so many years," and that "this is not what Chicago used to be."

"The city is not safe," Sanchez told Fox News Digital in an interview. "For the mayor and the governor to go on TV and use us as statistics, as numbers, I mean, we're human beings, we're talking about real time." 

"What's happening right now, real time, the mom who lost a five-year-old child doesn't care how many murders were done ten years ago, what we care about right now," Sanchez added.

The SAFE-T Act also enables incarcerated criminals to reduce their sentence by participating in various programs, drug treatment, or for exhibiting good behavior. 

"The request for detention to keep [criminals incarcerated], they keep ignoring it, they're released, so, we're headed in the wrong direction, and we've been heading in the wrong direction for years," Sanchez told Fox. "It does have to be curved." 

"If they cannot amend the SAFE-T Act, then it should be removed from the books," Sanchez added.

"We're tired of the crime," Sanchez explained. "We want law and order."

"If President Trump could help us prosecute these violent repeat offenders, any gun crime should be prosecuted by the federal government."