Rich Cupka and Todd McCollum

This week on the Elephant in the Room, Sam DeMarco and John Schnaedter welcome Rich Cupka, owner of Cupka's Cafe 2 in Pittsburgh's South Side and Todd McCollum, former police officer and chairman of the City of Pittsburgh Republican Committee to discuss the disturbing uptick in crime and the abandonment of the business in the South Side as a result of the fialed public safety policies of Mayor Ed Gainey and his predecessor Bill Peduto.