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Fox News analyst Giano Caldwell is launching a new public safety nonprofit aimed at helping victims. Violent crime and lobbying against progressives’ soft-on-crime approach, which they say has made the problem worse over the years.
The Caldwell Institute for Public Safety has multiple missions aimed at combating America’s crime crisis – providing support to victims, increasing activism against progressive candidates who support soft-on-crime policies, and lobbying for public safety legislation.
Caldwell said she enlisted the help of a team of experts to accomplish her goals. She said she enlisted Dr. Drew Pinsky, as well as a cousin who is a PhD clinician, to create a mental health manual for victims’ families.
Giano Caldwell appears in a still image taken from a video announcing his new Caldwell Institute for Public Safety. He said his brother’s unsolved murder in Chicago inspired him to start the nonprofit. (Caldwell Institute for Public Safety)
They also included Joel Fitzgerald, a longtime police chief whose son, also a police officer, was murdered in Philadelphia. Former Chicago prosecutor Dan Kirk worked with Fitzgerald to create a guidebook on how families can work with police and prosecutors.
And they developed instructions for families who want to tell their stories to the press.
“I can imagine what it feels like for the family that lost their 7-year-old child in Chicago last week, or on June 24, 2022, when my brother was murdered, the little girl Cecilia, who was six months old, was murdered. If you look at the statistics from 2021 to January 2022, over 276 children 16 years of age and younger were shot in the city of Chicago. That’s a year’s time.
“The flip side of that, though, is that in some cases these radical, progressive, soft-on-crime prosecutors, mayors and city council members need to be prosecuted,” he told Fox News Digital. “I want to make sure that the people who have fundamentally changed our criminal justice system are funded. george soros and others must be held accountable.”
Part of that, he said, is to help traditional prosecutors campaign against progressives with support from wealthy benefactors like billionaire Soros. Another part is to push legislators to take action against crime.
Gianno Caldwell and his brother Christian in their last photo taken together. (Fox News Digital)
Those prosecutors include Kim Foxx, from Caldwell’s hometown. Cook County, IllinoisOthers, including George Gascón in Los Angeles and Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, have also benefited from progressive donors.
“We will advocate for legislation that makes communities safer and against legislation that systematically endangers the lives of residents of particular communities,” he said.
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“Donations are extraordinarily important,” he said. “This is a 501(c)(4), and we’re going to need the help and support of all of America to make sure we can accomplish this mission. I’m going up against a mega-billionaire who has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in numerous races over the years.”
He said it took years of Soros-style activism to get society to this point, and it could take many more years to turn the situation around.
He said, “I recognize that this is a long battle that I have to fight, and I have to fight because I have been personally affected, and I know the tragedy and pain that comes with losing a loved one.”
Fox News analyst Giano Caldwell is still searching for answers after his 18-year-old brother Christian was shot and killed in Chicago. (Giano Caldwell)
Two years ago Monday, Caldwell’s 18-year-old brother, Christian, was killed in a shooting in Chicago.
To date, no suspects have been arrested. Caldwell said he has been in contact with with the investigators The investigation is being conducted on a monthly basis and recently the FBI’s Chicago office revealed there is a “promising lead.”
Chicago police said the investigation is ongoing and they have no further information. The FBI There was no immediate response to a request for comment.
She hopes the institute will benefit other grieving families as they heal from the trauma of losing a loved one to violent crime.
“My brother Christian, he wasn’t just my little brother, he was like my son,” Caldwell said. “He never had a father. So I was the one who took care of him. I was the one who drove him places, bought him school clothes and things like that.”
He said his brother was 18 and looking forward to going to college. Then he became a victim of violent crime, which crushes families of all backgrounds.
“This is not something that just affects Black people — it affects white people, Hispanic people, Asian people, all Americans, all stripes, all income levels, all jurisdictions,” he said. “We need to recognize that this issue affects all of us as Americans, therefore, we must all fight it together.”
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Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect or suspects involved in the incident. Christian died in the firing and two other victims were injured in the 11400 block of South Vincennes Avenue.
Christian did not know the other victims, a 31-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman.
Fox News’s Audrey Conklin and Peter Petroff contributed to this report.
