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where britain full of these a parent's worst nightmare that they live on top of them to stick so good in chicago it happens every day are not. at all i believe sometime soon to float like the river him on of the deadliest cities in the u.s. most victims are children and youth came through here what the city did the other. this man builds crosses for each use loss to the epidemic of gang violence here it's almost can do to just stay alive we have 5 courses we have to the funds not to be made it's 7 people we've lost a bike to a city of chicago. clifton

boonie mike founder is a loving grandfather back in the day he used to be a leading gang member he spent 27 years in jail for crimes ranging from assault to 1st degree murder after half a life behind bars others had filled his place and taken over the block. once part of the problem moonie now spends his days as a gang intervention coordinator his porch is practically his office without him it would be too dangerous for us to film here. is no authority here his word carries weight it takes a courageous person. to stuff they speak to the kids they see

a group of peers in a study now going through all misspeak at 2 or they'll walk around and that make the difference to me and that was person because i go to the class. to make an honest living here it often takes holding down several underpaid jobs of once this man has been cleaning cars for 30 years 10 dollars each. but if you're looking for fast cash you sell drugs for the street gangs. that's a hard job for me to convince them to stop selling drugs and they go get a legitimate job to go out of they've got to tell them that dope is the law of tar i did try to get them to see the long car it's not because if this. goes against an attack a beetle. a short life in the fast lane for most here that's all a bit of a not. most of the fathers my absent in jail jarring

a child from their moms barely able to make ends meet. growing up here often means falling for the wrong hero. he takes his several days on the streets before we meet gang members willing to talk to us. if you want to be a part of it is like you seen what we do and we hustle and we do it all is that it is your choice you will be a part of so you see the reason that we are taking your every risk that we take it is to wait to you why did you get your job if you mess around out here. in the ritz i'm choosing to take the risk because of i like face my. car drives out they negotiate a price and hand over the drugs that's how it is here hustling instead of homework . what might look like just a couple of friends hanging out can quickly take a turn for the worse almost everyone here examined jonathan started selling drugs

at the age of 13 is to tuesday tell the stories of friends he lost by ellen g. who was killed in front of his school when he was just 16 like real this has a chicago it was a payday. loans it just doesn't. 7 hurt i know my brother and all my big brother know will get back to me. but it has been a lot it's been a lot of is going no one no the best the best revis i've ever put through it. all it's all me me that the whole world will bless. but 57 boonie again watches over his streets but this time it's different he's no angel but life has made him wiser he still does manage to get through to everyone i couldn't even imagine life without gang bang bang a cool does a like that if you chose at the end of the because we had no choice you no choice

in the matter you feel the love no matter who it is a what a from a body had a choice of life we go. pushed to the point we had no choice we had to get out. and for many that means hanging around all day. young people here have lost their faith in life having anything better to offer them the streets. in the gangs they trying to be the family they never have for a child but. this it would be like it was some time this is looking to just stay out of the house for this soon as we all know will not be of snow but so what we gain by when we really have family over why we all care for each other by we don't do we not we all do from under their belief is that there's some stuff they gave a little we did is we did nothing to do harm never go on to see hope they're ok. he's the one who builds the crosses for chicago's lost children greg zane asher is

a retired carpenter for each life taken he sets up another cross together they form a growing memorial on the west side gregg himself suffered the tragic loss of 2 family members he knows what it's like to have a loved one stone and from here. my friends were. never going to be making the cross and it was also a way for greg to be able to work for his own trauma. my nickname tribal. heard this hard in my shop i cry a lot marsha. how. is this. i've i feel like i'm bad all these people because i've had that loss. and. it all seems like nobody wants to talk about it to them i do. nobody wants to have

a loss or noticed that mother that loved their. like their fate on or. she loved him to a certain point something where. once he's finished making a cross greg leaves it behind for the family of the deceased to take with them like tyrone blake sr. even as a police officer he was unable to stop his own son from being drawn into the maelstrom of gang life and getting killed. they have no more or they have no you know. this is just hard to talk about is this. no regard for human life. it's no stretch out. there are no leadership so.

tyrone blake jr did not live to see his 26th birthday. i. i. i. call appoints office fully rigged with than 10 i am radio scanners and monitors this is where he tracks police dispatches night by night listening in on police radio is not only legal in the us fall a point it's a crucial part of his work he's a freelance photojournalist who specialized in police operations the material he gathers he sells to local television stations for their crime related news. he has a range of contacts across the city he can send out collect footage and he also hits the road himself every night. it really. can be anywhere where people

are shooting at each other you know i work. for added protection. some nights seems a little more dangerous than others some. but it certainly helps make me feel a little bit safer when we're out there and the violence has ticked up in chicago so. classy downtown chicago with its imposing skyline is worlds removed from the chicago love point works and he covers stories from the toughest. one that is really cool on camera he's been on the job for 20 years now and seldom sleeps more than 5 hours a day if that. is soonest possible. a cup of coffee sounds good. local t.v. stations pay between $150.00 and $300.00 for the footage he delivers although there

are plenty of cases to cover poorly as he's known by police and gang members alike has to work hard for his money he's the city's number one police reporter and after all these years you still passionate about his job. here. and he's not going to lie. if you have fear you can't you can't properly cover the city of chicago i don't know if you have fear it's like if you were a war correspondent and you were assigned to afghanistan or iraq this is the similar assignment at the end of the day every day someone is being shot in my life . and so it is not much different than being a combat journalist that many times tonight is a quiet night and we already have several people shot. a quiet night in most cities around the world there's nobody shot but in chicago that is a couple of people shot. in his car lapointe has 7 scanners tuned in to all the

different emergency services radio systems covering emergency services. 47 he's divorced with 2 grown up children of his own his son also works for him and like him is on the road night after night. hallie's 1st stop of the evening a woman on a man was shot and injured his movements are routine he wastes no time setting up his camera. the police have already roach off the area but even though they've known paulie for ages they make sure to keep him at a distance. make sure i look good one officer calls out to him. once the police have wrapped up pulling packs away his camera and continues on his journey the next crime scene is already waiting. for. me. as it gets warmer. bullets fly more violence as

more the aggravation creased as you increase the temperatures people just get crazier and crazier. hottest summer days when you get the most shootings just people are just. that the numbers in chicago have been really bad at that time that we've had weekends where we had 50 people shot a dozen killed that happens more frequently than people might say and it's unfortunate for pauli but night is far from over. a new day dawns in chicago's west and south sides under veals just how rundown these neighborhoods really are. people who grow up here a crammed into underfunded schools and have few opportunities for career development and he's welfare and education programs are quickly discontinued if they fail to deliver the expected results fast. crumbling buildings toxic landscape

it's the exact opposite of the american dream. unemployment is rife the middle class moved down years ago poverty here is self-perpetuating. street worker is one of the few people local youngsters respect he's disappointed with the meager funding being provided to tackle the overwhelming problem. facing the community. it's worse it is serious. and afghanistan every day it's shootings and killings in his community and it's not a house at force anymore it's in sad. because it's weapon to a saw assessable now in my community you can go get a god quicker than you can bat at bi-lo juice. chicago proud to be home to barack obama the country's 1st african-american president.

tourists flock to its magnificent glittering downtown area most children from the west side have never even had a glimpse of this picture perfect part of the city the gulf between black and white rich and poor is deeper here than in most other places in america one more reason why chicago is plagued by so much violence. back on the west side boonie doesn't take his eyes off his granddaughter he couldn't see his own kids grow up he was in jail. on. the street corner where bernie buys treats for a little rain is known as the most dangerous in the area. and when temperatures rise so does the violence and with it the death toll on just 2 days in july and 2800 over 100 people were shot 15 fatally many victims were innocent bystanders who

had nothing to do with the gangs i'm up i bought my mother got her i got blah blah blah blah blah but. an old acquaintance from the neighborhood was there are. already in the newsroom gotta go by r r he seems intimidating at 1st but soon it's clear he has mental health problems and needs help i was going through now is a good suppose some good c. good arab hero he. has been a shooter luckily it's just a colorful water pistol but. knowing. him and. otherwise the guns people carry here a real loaded and lethal. but this is this is it's you and i could well be in that he gives me seriously mentally ill he did drugs don't mess this mad up so he was mentally ill and he out in the street just that i'm all that normally

a person here prozac that when he got physical he them up on how the daily violence is the sad norm here 3 blocks down there's been a real shooting only the shell casings remain strewn across the street as silent witnesses the victims 3 teenagers the shots were fired from a moving car in the afternoon just a school ended and the students were going home up the stairs on my house and i heard kind signs and i knew my kids would drop to the floor it was a very scary says he's away so it was a for a. saturday night. live the saturday kids got to stay in the house they can come outside and play as their best to the way she. in a neighborhood i have no money you know i would like to go somewhere where i have no money now. that some residents are paralyzed by fear for their children's lives others have become numb to it whoever lives here has learned to survive.

you stay aware but you don't feel scared oh you would never come out the house. but just around. this that this weekend this watch us around. i mean my models always there are positive people say from negative people who have nothing going on in my life have nothing to live for. this keep it moving i really don't try to associate with people outside the streets where. we targeted or the state so that's what they. were just doing well this is the work of the good hells that's what it. small memorials for the dead a constant reminder of the ever present danger in chicago there's a shooting every 4 hours every 19 hours a fatal while there are more guns and fewer police officers here than in most other

u.s. cities and the police have a long standing reputation for racism it's an explosive mix of factors. that happen ok i'll bite a guy 58080 am that's a quick prayer before setting to work the police have asked boone and other social workers for their help the police still have boonie registered as a gang member and often treat him unfairly he says but here they work hand in hand the violence is too severe for anyone sign to solve on a time. have. i seen it on her right here in his exam. i think the more you make enough about the great work you go all right leave it to the people living here trust the social workers more than they do the least. that we could go to knock you out this got

shot one was the bob 30 year old in a 60. 4 bit of a map again let's go if we are me oh yeah. probably convince other younger people to put that. when young kids and teenagers die in the neighborhood people are more open to the message to me and his colleagues friends. they work for a youth development organization called bill which has been working to help at risk youngsters in chicago since 969. me is part of a small team of experienced x. gang members street veterans he and his colleague carlos were both gang leaders in the past. like. in those days they could never have imagined working together with the shop on the other side.

not how many not i'm in town with your friends a big there are no big different you yeah you know how different it is out you know . when we would know we when it came together in our lives we actually we would have been a part of the problem you know with us it was the kids as it was already stationed you know there has about the and they know that we're solving individual family of a man and they look up to us we try to change their lives and give them jobs something yeah. i've got to give me. time i am not feeling well i mean you know we're going to leave the right but at the end of the day if the team meeting at the offices of bill mooney and his colleagues. change ideas on how to get through to those they worry about most every day right. access and carlos know all too well just how hard it can be to find a job after leaving jail. that will go so i've got billed as

workers from all walks of life from college graduates turn social workers to people whose university was the street. mooney has his very own method he approaches everyone in the community including its youngest residents and talks to them or. so while with mike a. child who is out so he didn't see it right. it's important that the kids trust him so that they can talk to him everyone here knows bernie and he knows this is the only way to reach some of them especially those who aren't ready yet for the other activities and programs build office. the organization also offers discussion groups for juveniles with criminal records they're not his strictly voluntarily

attendance as one of their parole conditions carlos leads the group today they're talking about their mothers this. is not easy was 1st this. is how so appreciate your mother. some feign disinterest of the shift uncomfortable in their chance talking about their emotions is something they'd never really learn to do we can we can help you guide you but you guys got to get worse. you know what is it that you need so that more carlos the former gang leader who spent 25 years in jail talks openly about his emotions and his mother she never failed to visit me she never feels the same the commissary money she never was there for the $70.00 pictures you know of family events she never will to you know us apart collect. she was always. my homie. 6 months into my big yeah they

looked out after. it was gone my girlfriends. go. and that's the reality and that's why we do this you know to get respect to our moms you know to show them that we. are you can have disagreements and she can be true but the way you guys know my. people and so he's open to us gets the boys thinking she'll find a way to make stuff i see you know is why she always put it. first so. this is my protector. he said because my mom would both my mother for. she told me even though she had it so somehow razan me verboten losses to see always. an issue for you to go

on for a while and we know she was going to prison for the last more oh i have seen her for like 234 years no she never took my delusions every time i did she was our drug don't you know she was in the right my. story is that they are reluctant to recall that many are reluctant to hear carlos does listen off as the boy's options but he's well aware that ultimately they will have to fend for themselves back on the street. sure. the only protection greg zaniest needs is a helmet he soles and hammers away so that others won't forget chicago's last pitch . it's a labor of love that requires him to work every single day. and we've got the worst kind of cancer or any country could ever have gotten gun violence it's just that. it escalating nobody said trust. but there is no cure for cancer

what if there is no cure here i am going to be doing that. like i can't keep up what it. it's about a nation that's walked away from. this about and i'm showing act of kindness you know i'm going there not just with a cross and a hard on i got to get a hug that's my paycheck. 22 years ago greg found his father in law shot dead in front of his home since that day he's not only been a carpenter but also a chronicler of those chicago has lost he researches their stories keeps lists and tries to push his own pain away just 2 months ago one of his daughters died suddenly of an overdose. it's difficult for him to talk about it.

i guess a root going to say you think of my daughter not me i must have a lot more work to do how are you really thought i think this country is quickly going to hell and then the 10 years the last 10 years of it specially the last 2 years. greg he's inconsolable yet he tries to console others with his crosses. the boy with a gentle smile was tyree wives he lived to be 16. even young children can fall victim to chicago's violence there to protect them a crossing guards from the safe passage program. these women in bright yellow vests patrol the streets to try to keep kids safe not from cars but from

bullets. they're armed with nothing but walkie talkie to call the police. violence on the way to school has dropped by one 3rd. since they started. still whoever grows up here could always be at the wrong place at the wrong time and get killed. police departments like this one and district 7 in englewood are places that most residents associate with problems problems with the police. randall lacey wants to change that everyone here knows her as miss rain will be a different 3 years after her daughter was stabbed to death she was left to raise her grandkids on her own 2 years ago one of them was also killed.

miss ray wanted to do her part to combat violence on the streets so she founded the chess club. i think my 1st question and you want something kids meet at the police station to play chess against members of the community and police officers before your face was. white powder and you every time you. think the way this you to solve the dragon a day at a dragon a brother with greg name all the way to the rest of. the softer side you know the kind of side of the police. and the same thing go for the police all of you also what they have to sit down with that you're going. to. hear that you're too out with your gut their homes. plus whoever is playing chess

is not out on the street says miss ray she also thinks the plane chance teaches the . kids to solve their problems with reason i'm not by pulling a gun and resorting to violence. well like that told me it says the right way to do it like so like if someone is like lucky my children go to the way it's a sure way to go if there's a kid that is headed we tell you to go that way or that i said so i think that. the officers aren't allowed to talk to journalists chicago's police have avoided any kind of coverage since the escalation in violence. in the rough and tough west side playing chess here is like an oasis of calm the kids say they feel safe even the youngest ones i'm side it's

a different story and child i prefer to think like you can stand they have. what you think you. should you know live his life now be choosy like i did study was a lifetime ban. i know. a lot of mothers in the neighborhood of lost children miss ray tells us they can all sympathize with one another they know how it feels. they're still she's determined not to let life get her down the phone for the sake of the children this is not. my daughter did i lose key or just love all of my grandson getting married this is always a good idea to get the safety of. the feel so i think this they focus all right.

i like you quite a good. it's night time and boone is at home his eyes aren't really following the 2. they're glued to his fun he's always on call in case one of the kids wants to reach him sometimes in the middle of the night. 27 years of jail couldn't break his spirit he married his wife patricia after he was released this above the catch is a picture of his zine arachne michelle obama martin luther king bob marley muhammad ali but african-americans are far from being at the reins they're still being systematically disadvantaged his work on the streets is also the fight for equal opportunity. afraid that you are the polies this good or that you that paris is scared of you and you know bad.

and this is the most courageous generation of young black and brown people in this world is right here so back in direct their courage to a real fight a fight that's going to help us as a people. just think of that what could be accomplished. bernie trying to keep his own son orlando out of the gang life but he was in jail when he finally got out orlando was already in at the age of 17 sentenced to 55 years for mada if there's one thing bernie regrets and it's losing his son to the streets. grew up in the community as he did i was part of the destruction and my reputation so although he grew up all his life. it means to put straight with dick and. thinking he was living up to my image so when he had

a conflict and started bizarre. he resolved it in a way. and that was through violence and they called him 55 years of his life. the street is open for business 247 cars drive up a door opens drugs are exchanged and the contracts off again maybe is trying to help these kids because his own son is so out of reach. orlando now a grown man is calling from prison boonie hasn't seen him you know for 25 years as a former convict he isn't allowed to visit his son in prison but he has plans for orlando once he gets sacked. but that's because i want you to get back and you

got the part of the family you got your privates you got that part of the storm just like me. but for now all he can do is watch from his front porch as the kids on the street make the same mistakes he did. mistakes that rarely come with the 2nd child. patrol cars emergency lines show the way for paul the point he's reached his 2nd crime scene of the night. a few hours ago 2 young men in their early twenty's were shot. out of a moving car on a street full of traffic. that could easily have been more victims says paul are. innocent people who just happened to be passing by.

there is no time of day in chicago when it doesn't happen like i said you know really there's a shooting every 4 hours in chicago so you know it's rare i don't know that we've got a day without it shooting for 2 years now i think it's been 2 years and not a day without a shooting or a 24 hour period without a shooting so you know again crime is down the homicides and shootings have have brought down about 25 percent but we still have 75 percent that is still happening so it's going to take a little more work i think at this pizza i will say for. tonight is fairly quiet he says. 3 am pauley has time to swing by his office here it's safe to take off his plea for a fast. in his very own headquarters continues listening to the police radio and directing his

staff he'll remain alert and ready to return to the streets until morning. all he has lived with this inverted shadow for the past 20 years and he still gets upset by the events he covers. the 14 years. 13 year olds 12 year olds the reason why they're brought into a gang wife is because they can't get in trouble as an adult so they're recruiting young kids into these gangs so they can commit the shootings and then they get out of the you know like a youth camp when they're 18 years old so they're not there at the spend the rest of their life in jail for killing someone so you find yourself we had one time we had a child who is 12 years old 12 and the gang was looking for him to kill him because he shot someone else it was one of the biggest stories we had in the beginning of my career was horrible to think that 1st of all that they recruited in use this child in the way they did and then they killed them which is why foley says he one

quit not tonight not any time soon. the same goes for boonie he's attending yet another funeral but here too he finds time to speak to troubled youngsters timeless in his efforts to get them back on track. he finds them and they find him a boonie his job and private life inseparable. the funeral parlor and grounds at least a gun free here the community can gather and mold in peace. but today's funeral is not for someone rich far too soon from their beloved. the neighborhood has congregated today to say its final farewells to a man who lived to the ripe old age of 86

7. not many has survived that long this is a community that has become tragically accustomed to burying their loved ones at an early age. it's awful when it really it takes a lot. to see the agony the hurt and the pain. in young people and in the i think a lot of the young people that are dying are leaving children behind which makes the situation even worse so it's challenging it really is. a challenging situation that with circumstances like these seems insurmountable in theory the people born into these conditions have the same and equal rights as anyone else in the country but they certainly do not have the same opportunity and with next to no outside assistance or viable role models providing inspirational guidance the chances of

breaking the vicious cycle of violence and poverty are sadly low. to some boonie is the turning point in their lives. davy and his 18 and wants to be a nice to answer makes for money he works night shifts until 6 in the morning and then heads off to school. money used to come easier when he was a drug runner on the corner. his mother couldn't support him and his siblings. he was just a teenager but he felt responsible to be the provider. was the one who got him out of the gang. i was there. i looked in his as a not so me at that age and act days when i met him i was already in the streets and prison i had been in jail for joy that my life were spent in jail and i didn't

want to have to go through what i went through actually like a father to me then i know it because i never had the pleasure but i always say oak was a relative that hear me when i don't do this i don't do it but they would never show me at the. way how to do it they were to me what not to do but how could i not do if you don't give me a different route to years of boony believing in him ok davey in the courage to turn his life around. bernie doesn't give up on anyone easily he wants to be their emergency exit to get them off the wrong track and convince them there is a better life waiting for them. that's hard to believe when all you know are the few blocks around you and affluent downtown chicago remains a shimmering skyline on the horizon i know now that you think you. know that one out today boonies hosting a family reunion on his front porch

a short reprieve in the rough neighborhood. to me is the patriarch of west la to serve a new low key persistent out again right davey and made it to the other side bernie and patricia have practically taken him in will there ever be equal opportunities for the children surviving in the shadows of chicago downs his granddaughter will ever get to see that day and yet he keeps on fighting every day for the kids here to come around he's always ready whenever they are. and you know the day they will let you know when they will i think it might be 1 o'clock in the morning or they come up with the bad boy can you take me in the morning the family or job could you take me in a more you put me in the program would you take me to more the families and school so a car is there no prescribed time but not a so you just got to be to 0 when they call them i think is knowledge of god keep

up with me to keep me healthy enough work and get up from point a to point b. i will be up for. as long as pruning waits for them on his porch the dog. so a different life remains cracked open. for all of chicago's children who have lost their black. hawk all on. one tree god the international talk show for journalists to discuss the topic of the week 50 years at a critical juncture is its kind of it prepares to vote on a new commission with europe facing pressing challenges leadership is more important than ever will it emerge from the process with democratic deficits that's

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