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and full of these a parent's worst nightmare that they live on top of them to stick so cool in chicago it happens every day. sometimes it just seemed to float like a river a month of the deadliest cities in the u.s. most victims all children. came through here one to help the city to the other. this man builds crosses for each use lost to the epidemic of gang violence here it's almost can do to just stay alive we know fibrosis and we have to this is not to make it so 7 people we've lost to violence here in the city of chicago.

clifton bloom up 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 north already here his word carries weight it takes a courageous person. to stop this speak to the kids they see a group of kids in the study now going through on this big deal walk

a mile. and that make that's the difference in me and this person because i go to class but try 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 to convince them to stop selling. and they go get a legitimate job the only thing that can tell them that there's a lot of tar i get try to get them to see the law which is not that it's difficult . because it's to be the. a short life in the fast lane for most here that's all they've ever known. most of their fathers were absent in jail

during a childhood their moms barely able to make ends meet. growing up here often means falling for the wrong heroes. it takes says several days on the streets before we meet gang members willing to talk to us. you want to be a part is like you see what we do and we hustle and we do it honestly it is your choice you can be a part so you see the reason that we've taken every risk that we take it is to wait do you think you get your choice if you mess around out if. you want to keep the reds i'm choosing to take the risk because of like fix my. car drives up 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 is armed jonathan started selling drugs

at the age of 13 his to tuesday tell the stories of friends he lost by allen g. who was killed in front of his school when he was just 16 like real this has a chicago it was a payday a bad life yes it does it doesn't mean if i. get hurt i know my brother i'm a big brother no go get that for me. this has been a lot of there's been a lot of it going no no no the best the best revis i've ever put through it. all he told me after me that the whole world will bless. at 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 gangs hanging in a cool is the life that you chose at the end of day because we had no choice you no choice in the matter feeling the love no matter who it is a what if from

a body had a choice in a life we go. to the point well we had no choice we had to get out do you. and for many that means hanging around old day. young people here have lost their faith in life having anything better to offer than the streets. in the gangs they try to be the family they never had for each other. the last december like it was some time this is looking good this is the allegation how for this music i don't know will not be of snow but so what we gain by with it we really have family over why we all kill for each other over the by we don't do we not we'll be from under their belief as though their sins though they gave a will we lose we there's nothing to hide i never go on the sea hope. he's the one who builds the cross and for chicago's lost children greg zane is a retired carpenter for each life taken he sets up another cross together they form

a growing memorial on the west side. greg himself suffered the tragic loss of 2 family members he knows what it's like to have a loved one stone and from me and. the time to. let her go making the crosses is also a way for greg to be able to work through his own trauma. my nickname tribe. heard this hard in my shop i cry a lot marsha. is this. i've i feel like i'm bad to 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 no one noticed that mother that loved their game or like their

face on or. she loved him to a certain point something when. 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 they have you know. this is just hard to talk about is this. no regard for human life you. know structure. they have no leadership so. i. just i don't know right. now very least.

time rambling. junior did not live to see his 26th birthday. paula points 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 for the 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 them to collect footage and he also hits the road himself every night. here in chicago just like it can be anywhere

where people are shooting at each other you know i were. asked for added protection . some nights seems a little more dangerous than others some nights i don't wear it 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. trashy downtown chicago with its imposing skyline is worlds removed from the chicago lapointe works and he covers stories from the toughest. one that is rarely caught on camera he's been on the job for 20 years now and seldom sleeps more than 5 hours a day if that get there soon as promise of. 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 as to what song for his money he's the city's number one police reporter and after all these years he's still passionate about his job. here. is that. 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 if 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. 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 poorly 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 wholly packs away his camera and continues on his journey the next crime scene is already waiting for. your. good as it gets warmer. bullets fly more violence as more

the aggravation level is increased as you increase the temperatures people just get crazier and crazier. when the hottest summer days when you get the most shootings 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 and that happens more frequently than people might think and it's unfortunate for pauli but night is far from over. a new day dawns in chicago's west and south sides and reveals just how rundown these neighborhoods really are. people who grow up here a crammed into underfunded schools and have few opportunities for career development any welfare and education programs are quickly discontinued if they fail to deliver the expected results fast. crumbling buildings landscape

it's the exact opposite of the american dream. unemployment is rife the middle class moved out years ago poverty here is self-perpetuating. st welcome boonie is one of the few people local youngsters respect he's disappointed with the meager funding being provided to tackle the overwhelming problem. is 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 out sad for us anymore it's in sad and because this weapon tree is so assessable now m.r. community you can go get a god quicker than you can bat barlow juice. chicago proud to be home to barack obama the country's 1st african-american president and.

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 a baba my mother got her i got bob i was not. an old acquaintance from the neighborhood here every. corner where do you care if you're in the gotta go bomb r r he seems intimidating at 1st but soon it's clear he has mental health problems and needs help it will ruin our city good she's go some good see good out of food oh he. is going to shoot up luckily it's just a colorful personal. no no one. here man. otherwise the guns people carry here a real loaded and lethal. but this is this is an issue if i could meet with him and he's seriously mentally ill and if he did drugs don't mess is my so he's mentally ill and he out in the street just that i'm all that normally

a person he approached like that when he got physical the them up a hard on daily violence is the sad norm 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 up the stairs to my house and i heard the kinds of semenya my kids would drop to the floor it was a very scary says he's always there with a boy and a saturday night. live saturday kids got to stand how they can come outside and play with their benches away so. it's in a neighborhood the top hat no money. we would like to go somewhere where i have no money. 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 up the house. just around. this that this would come to this watch is so wow moments i mean my models always there are positive people say from negative people who don't have nothing going on in a life that nothing to live for. just keep it moving i really don't try to associate with a lot of people just outside the streets where. the target of the state is so that's what it feels. like just bored with the work of the good hells that's valid. 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 but i had a guy by. a fellow named as 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 its own. i think you don't hear right here in his exam. i think. what you make enough of these things about the great work you know all right leave it to the people living here trust the social workers more than they do the police. we could go to

not brothers got shot one of them supplied with 30 year old in a $68.00 you. happen to know that we are you know what out. of this other younger people to put the gun. 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. part of a small team of experience thanks gang members street veterans he and his colleague carlos were both gang leaders in the past. but. in those days they could never have imagined working together with each other on the other side.

not how many not i'm in town with your friends the big there are no big deal for next year and i was here from arizona you know. we went in we were no 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 least i report station you know that has a lot to do with it they know that we're solving individual family or something and i look up to us here to try to change their lives and give them jobs yeah. i've got a. family i am from well i mean you know what they always go 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 you know right. and carlos know all too well just how hard it can be to find a job after leaving jail. it's

a given that all go well i build 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 for you so well with micah. he adds that he was 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 there 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 what is the 1st thing. is how to appreciate your mother. you know some feign this interest with others shift uncomfortably in their chairs talking about their emotions is something they've never really learnt to do we can we can help you guide you but you guys got to give us you know what is it that you need so that 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 filled a 2nd commissary money she never failed 70 pictures you know a family event she never filled to you know collect phone calls she was always. my home. 6 months into my bed 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 give respect to our moms you know to show them that we love you we care because you can have disagreements you can be straight. people even so his openness gets the boys thinking she'll find a way to make stuff nice you know he's known by she always put. first so. this is my protect. and save because my mom was both my mother never. seen a home even though she had a tough time raising me for both of us is to see always. make sure you sort if you

do go for a while i mean now she just got out of prison last more. i have seen her for 234 years and i'm saying every time our delusions every time i did she was all drugged up you know saying she was in the right mind. and the story is that they are reluctant to recall and that many are reluctant to hear carlos does listen offers the boy's options but he's well aware that ultimately they will have to fend for themselves back on the street. for. the only protection greg zaniest needs is a helmet he souls and hammers away so that others won't forget chicago's loss kids . 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 and just get. it escalating nobody said. there is no cure for cancer.

there is no cure here i am going to be doing that. and i can't keep up with this. it's about a nation that's walked away from. it's about and i'm showing act of kindness you know i'm going there not just with a cross and a heart i'm i got to get a hug that's my page. 22 years ago greg found his father in law shot dead in front of him. 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 think it's a you think of my daughter not me and most of a lot more work to do how are you i think this country will heal quickly going to hell. in the 10 years the last 10 years has been special the last few 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 come full 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 there could always be at the wrong place at the wrong time and get killed. police departments like this one in district 7 in englewood the places that most residents associate with problems problems with the police. randall lacey wants to change that everyone here knows her as miss ray just what you're doing with the 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 killing. miss ray wanted

to do her part to combat violence on the streets so she founded the chess club. i think you see i think my 1st she. won something kids meet at the police station to play chess against members of the community and police officers it's clear she was. sure. didn't quite loudly every time you see a police officer think about this you have to solve it drag the battle rigney brother with greg name all the way to the rest of what they were just off the 5 people that find this side of the police. and the same thing go for the police officers who also want you to sit down without you or do. you. hear children do out what you thought. plus whoever is playing chess is not out

on the street says miss ray she also thinks that playing chess teaches the kids to solve their problems with reason and not by pulling a gun and resorting to violence. well my dad told me it says the right way to do it like so like if there was like blackie we chose to go the other way to actually do the cause there's a good bed and head into it as you go that way i doubt. that. the officers aren't allowed to talk to journalists chicago's police have a void. in 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 outside it's a different story in time i prefer to think like they would. have this

was going to. be shit down the line if he was like you now need to be like you're not satisfied i'll be like that it's. normal for. 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. still she's determined not to let life get her down if only for the sake of the children that. my daughter was killed is not all of our editors my grandson was murdered this is always good to get to the safety of. we have to do this so i can do is they focus on was i was there the right or

you the time. it's night time and boony is at home his eyes aren't really following the t.v. though they're glued to his farm 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 can choose a picture of his idols iraq and 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 opportunities. this schools are afraid of and you. the polling says kids are the you the parents are scared of the you and are you for and scared nobody. and this is the most courageous generation of

young black and brown people that this world will ever see is right here so it might take in their back and read direct their courage to a real fight a fight best on help us as a people. just think of what can 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 and the age of 17 sentenced to 55 years from now. if there's one thing bernie regrets and it's losing his son of the streets. he grew up in the camilla's he did that was part of the destruction their reputation so although he grew up all his life was desolate boni that's the bone. to portray day . thinking he was living up to my image so when he had

a conflict. he resolved it in a way. to resolve it and that was why and it cost him 55 years that was like. a street is open for business 247 cars drive on a door opens drugs are exchanged and the contracts off again maybe dooney is trying to help these kids because his own son is so out of reach. orlando now a grown man is calling from prison who need 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 up to the good bad and you've got the part of the

family you've got your problems you've got the perfect storm just like me. but for now all he can do is watch from his front porch because the kids on the street make the same mistakes he did. mistakes that really 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 was shot. out of a moving car on a street full of traffic. ticket easily have been more victims says paul an. innocent people who just happened to be passing by. which.

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 my juniors and got a day without a shooting or a 24 hour period without a shooting so you know again crime is down the homicides in 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 for us to get these streets a little safer. tonight his family quiet he says. 3 am pauley has time to swing by his office here it's safe to take off his bullet proof vest. in his very own headquarters continues listening to the police radio and directing

his staff here remain alert and ready to return to the streets until morning. hallie 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 and use this child in the way they did and then they kill them which is why foley says he won't

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 ripped far too soon for 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 his 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 yes it takes a lot. to see the agony for and the pain. in young people at the end the other thing is a lot of the young people that i'm dying are leaving children behind which makes the situation even worse so it's challenging it really is. a challenging situation that when 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. davey and his 18 and wants to be a nice to and some extra 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 mean at that age and act out days when i met him i was already in the streets and prison i had been in jail for joy that my life was spent in jail and i

didn't want to have to go to what i went to actually like a father to me that i never there because i never had the person but i always say i'll goes a relative they tell me when i don't do this i don't do it but they will never show me again. wait how to do it they would hear me what not to do but how can i not do if you don't give me a different role in 2 years of boony believing in him ok damion the courage to turn his life around. 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 for now today bruni is hosting a family reunion on his front porch

a short reprieve in the rough neighborhood. boonie is the patriarch of west lot is of a new low key persistent did not he out again right davey and made it to the other side bernie and patricia have practically taken him in with the ever be equal opportunities for the children surviving in the shadows of chicago downs his granddaughter will ever get to see the day and yet he keeps on fighting every day for the kids here to come around he's always ready whenever they are. that was yeah you know that's a lovely day it will let you know when they will get maybe 1 o'clock in the morning 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 a program would you take me the morning families and school so a car is there no prescribed time and that is so you just got to be there with a car there might think it is now it's god keep up with me to keep me healthy

enough work and get up from point a to point b. for. as long as mooning waits for them on his porch the dog. a different life remains cracked open. for all of chicago's children who have lost their way. to god's. happy days bopara see a mansion just defending their position at the top of the honestly got the win at home against i trust frank such that. the mood is not so great at buying music after an unconvincing win against underdogs known as the net is this

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