(Video) Gingrich: NYPD police techniques can save hundreds of lives in Chicago

On Face the Nation this morning, Newt Gingrich applauded the crime preventing strategy used by New York City mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg.

"Their policing techniques, led by Chief Bratton, who invented them," the former House Speaker explained, "actually saved thousands of lives by focusing on crime in a very intelligent way. And candidly, if Chicago were being as aggressive about it as New York, you'd be saving hundreds of African-American lives a year in Chicago."

Gingrich also decried the polices of President Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, which he says have driven Americans apart on race.